A CALL to redraw the constituencies for next year’s parliamentary and municipal elections went out from a gathering in Bahrain yesterday. It would ensure more proportionate representation, particularly in densely populated areas. Activists also called for an end to the practice of stamping voters’ passports, used in the first elections in 2002. But any new …

Thank goodness for TVs in hospital rooms, after reading 3 newspapers I was still bored and there was still an awful lot of time to kill. Hence, channel surfing (what there were anyway) began to haphazardly land on Dubai TV which at that time (around 2:10pm) they were interviewing Shaikh Ali Salman the President of …

My dad is an obstinate man, he’s lost his sight about 13 years ago, but still refuses to use any of the walking sticks we got him. The last couple of years he developed heart problems, but to him, he still thinks of himself as a young(ish) man (he’s 66) and subconsciously he probably thinks …

There was some concerted action going on in Manama this week against the peril of money laundering, as regional states met to hammer out strategy. The two-day plenary of the Middle East and North Africa Financial Action Task Force (MENAFATF) was also being held in the organisation’s home-base country in recognition of the kingdom’s key …

sisters, Photographer: Clive Power. The Bus Stop