I keep running into stuff I wrote a while ago – typed and printed out; typed and stored on the computer; handwritten in notebooks and on napkins; in English and in Russian; finished and unfinished; never published and never sold. Random fact and random fiction, some of it keeps surprising me when I re-read it …

A Bahraini-Swede in Sweden blogging about Bahrain!

Amna (eldest daughter) and Arif (youngest of the children, a boy) get along well enough together, if you keep the knives, forks and any other sharp or dangerous objects firmly locked up and out of their reach. They’re all on their Christmas holidays at the moment and apparently their mother sat them down and got …

His Majesty the King, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, yesterday issued a law allowing GCC citizens to engage in all business and economic activities in Bahrain. Only a few areas will remain off limits, the law said. According to the law, GCC nationals cannot work in the following areas: pilgrimage and omra offices, manpower agencies, …

In a week where a powerful UK minister is forced to resign simply because he expedited the processing of a residency visa, an Egyptian dickhead is encouraging business families not to open up. Here’s a piece of his wisdom: “If you can avoid going public, avoid it,” he told a workshop on family business on …