Intellectuals last night called for a united stand against religious extremists who are trying to restrict personal freedoms in Bahrain. Professionals, business people, activists and journalists at Almuntada (The Forum) said that something must be done to stop fundamentalists from taking the country backwards.

The erstwhile shy voices of businessmen scared of losing their custom as well as those of liberals afraid of being labeled kafirs by their Islamist compatriots are being raised. And about time too. Some 200 luminaries of Bahraini society, sans religionists and MPs, gathered last night at the Gulf Hotel at the invitation of the …

Can you tell who this guy is? Here’re a couple of hints, he rarely smiles and you’ll see him in action in Bahrain on March 12th, 2006. Oh, and this must be one very rare picture where you actually see him smiling, must be because he was just selected as the “man of the year!” …

I’ve got tunnel vision at the moment, I have no idea what the hell is going on and I can’t see much and there is absolutely nothing wrong with me as far as I can tell… maybe I need to physically remove myself from the computer and go do some night-time gardening which is a …

With the end of the holy month of Ramadan, it is protest season in Bahrain again. Thousands have taken to the streets of Manama over the past two weeks in a series of marches against a proposed new family law. The protests culminated in a march that saw around 14,000 protesters according to the Interior …