Month: November 2004

Goodbye Zayed..

Our heartfelt condolences to the people of the Emirates, the Gulf and the Arab world for the passing of a great man, whose shadow will forever provide safe havens to the subjects who knew him. I am sure that the whole of Bahrain will mourn his passing. He had a tremendous influence on these islands, …

bored stiff

so I finished the packet above. cigarettes? sure they’re on the brain, and had it not been ramadhan I probably would have taken a drag… am pretty pissed off, been since yesterday. we have a saying in Arabic which loosely translates to don’t bother being generous to a mean person, he’ll just crap all over …

Another benchmark goes south

RSF published their annual report again, and unfortunately Bahrain’s ranking on press freedom dropped yet again. And it’s a downward spiral at a rate of knots: 2002: raked 67 2003: ranked 117 2004: ranked 143! Why? Was it that the people polled to rank Bahrain are increasingly pessimistic on the outlook of press freedoms in …