Year: 2005

Moving goal posts…

One of my favourite bloggers, Benkerishan (arabic) touched upon a point that amply demonstrates how the goal posts have shifted with the result of the Iraqi elections: the incumbant president became a vice president, and no blood flowed in the process! I agree with Benkerishan, this is unbelievable in “our” democracies: he argues that Al-Yawer …

The insecurity of Bahraini men?

What is it these days with politicians trying to score another term using cultural taboos? Or trying to protect us from ourselves by initiating a theo-fuzz department sponsored by that brainiac Jassmo Al-Saidi, and mannequins again by Majeedo Karimi… But the actual facts speak for themselves, Bahraini men are much more insecure about relationships than …