Bahrain was the venue for a major conference on Islamic banking this week, with some startling figures on the sector’s growth on the agenda, along with news of the establishment of a giant new lender. The two-day event, the first International Islamic Financial Markets Conference (IIFMC), was held under the patronage of the governor of …
Month: May 2005
Sara Gwenllian Jones blog
The Idea: Twelve methods that will exercise parts of your brain that rarely get it, and make you more creative and better able to understand the world.
97015_Al_Raheel, originally uploaded by malyousif. These blockprints were made by my father, Nasser Al-Yousif, about 8 years after he lost his sight completely. All of these were done by touch, and in reverse (mirror image) on lino material and then printed on paper. He cuts cardboard to the shapes he wants, places them on the …
An American expatriate family in Qatar