Month: September 2005

The Challenge

We’ve just come back from the opening ceremony of my father’s exhibition at Dar Al-Barih Art Gallery in Adliya with a renewed sense of awe. Although we have lived with his art throughout our lives, and have come to take his paintings as something rather normal, seeing 36 of his recent block-prints hung in the …

Drawing on inspiration

More Than Meets the Eye is the theme of an art exhibition opening at 7.30pm 7.00pm tonight at the Albareh Art Gallery, Adliya. Around 30 limited edition linoleum prints by Bahraini artist Nasser Al Yousif are being showcased at the event, which is being held under the patronage of Culture and National Heritage Assistant Under-Secretary …

Moderates win!

The “hawks” of Al-Wefaq have resigned in response to the society’s decision to re-register under the new Political Societies Law which specifically recognises the Constitution of 2002. Shaikh Hassan Mushaim’i, Dr. Abduljalil Al-Singaise and Dr. Saeed Al-Shehabi say that their resignation decision is final. The board of directors however have not accepted Shaikh Hassan Mushaim’i’s …