Tomorrow we elect 18 members who will constitute the board of directors of the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Tomorrow we hope that those we elect will fair much better than the 65-year-old history of this most ancient of chambers in the Gulf, but with little return for its efforts and with even less …

Chamber of Commerce elections hoardings, originally uploaded by malyousif. This signals the start of the election season in Bahrain which now will extend to Oct 2006. This one is for the board members of the Chamber of Commerce & Industry. I’m voting for the guys who bothered to put an effort into their campaign and …

MyDesk, originally uploaded by malyousif. testing out my new Sony Ericsson K750i mobile phone’s camera… not too bad actually, but I expected much better for 2MP. This picture has been reduced in size, colour corrected a bit and sharpened in Adobe Photoshop Elements, so it’s not “raw”

Did she press Bahrain for more and faster-paced reforms? Or was it a quick handshake and the proverbial pat on the back?

Huh? Yeah, that was the condition for them to be accepted into the WTO club: Saudi Arabia has agreed to end all economic boycotts of Israel, allowing the World Trade Organization (WTO) yesterday to admit the oil-rich kingdom as its 149th member, diplomats said. Saudi officials did not comment on the Israel boycott, which had …