MPs seek clamp on phone pornography By MOHAMMED AL A’ALI MPs are calling for a new law to combat untraceable pornographic broadcasts between mobile phones. Girls are reportedly being harassed by youths misusing the Bluetooth technology now available in some mobiles. Bluetooth can trace any similar receiver phone within 10 metres and transmit to it …
Month: August 2004
Not everyone is happy [arabic] with the totalitarian board of Al-Wefaq, so much so that some of their leading lights are deserting and wanting to start another political society. One of these is Dr. Nizar Al-Baharna who is so far insisting on starting a political society to be called “Justice and Progress.” Dr. Nizar resigned …
The web journal of the first ever Bahraini writer of English fiction and author of the novel QuixotiQ. In the journal Ali speaks of his journey in literature and towards becoming a published Arab author, one of the very few to write fiction directly in English.
Bahrain’s top Shi’i leaders said yesterday that they would march to Najaf and protect it if Iraq’s highest Shi’i leader, Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, called upon Muslims to join efforts to end the fighting and bring peace back to the city. Sheikh Ali Salman, an opposition leader and spokesman for the organizers, said Shi’i leaders were …
BERLIN (Reuters) – A leading German dictionary publisher plans to launch a guide it says will help men translate the subtext of female conversation. The Langenscheidt publishing group, best known for its well-respected yellow foreign language dictionaries, will launch sales of a 128-page book to translate such baffling female banter as: “Let’s just cuddle” into …