While we continue to languish in Batelco‘s shadow with their inferior internet connections and exhorbitant broadband rates and their stranglehold on the .bh domain, CERN has achieved a new internet speed record and have transferred 1.1 Terabytes of data at 5.44 gigabits a second (Gbps) to a lab at the California Institute of Technology! Think …

It might be so in some nearby countries, but the scene on Friday night at the local Ahli Club was not so unusual in Bahrain. A Bahraini minister and dozens of citizens, all Muslims of course, were among the hundreds of guests and parishioners who gathered there to celebrate the consecration of the St Mary’s …

This is completely unheard of. Demonstrations in the heart of the Saudi Capital, in the main thoroughfare Ulaya Street some reports says that some 500 people (both men and women!) demonstrated in Riyadh demanding polital reforms, just a day after the government announced that they’re starting municipal elections with half the members directly elected while …

Then head over to riverbend she puts it in a way that I can only hope that one day I have the descriptive and emotional capacity that this young lady has by the truck-load.

Yeah it’s not all the way, but it’s a start for the largest, richest and supposedly most powerful nation in the Gulf. They announced that they will do Municipal Elections as a probable first step to electing a parliament. So can we expect that women will be given more rights? like being able to drive …