Center to help create more flexible, dynamic and open economies The newly inaugurated Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence in Bahrain will play a key role in identifying and training entrepreneurs from across the Middle East so that they can learn how to compete in the global economy, according to U.S. Ambassador to Bahrain William Monroe. Speaking …

I love Khaled Al-Hashimi’s cartoon in today’s Al-Ayam! Al-Ayam’s cartoon by Khaled Al-HashimiThe placard reads: “We are the sole agents of Islam.” The thing holding up the placard presumably is a wahabi/salafi/islamist/jihadi/terrorist. They’re all the same as far as I’m concerned. Khalid really hit a nerve with this one.

in time for next year’s elections that is.. but I don’t care, we should have had MPs calling for the following from day one, but they’re starting now, maybe “saving themselves” all those years for this final push to deliver. No problem, I won’t look a gift horse in the mouth. Have a look at …

Congratulations Trinidad & Tobago on a well deserved win and good luck at the World Cup. Hard luck Bahrain on the 1:0 loss. Better luck next time, maybe by then you will be a more cohesive unit and play football instead of volleyball, tennis or whatever the hell you call what you did tonight.

if you buy their music CDs. In their absolute paranoia, Sony has surreptitiously included a hidden piece of code into their music CDs, in addition to their copy-protection, that when inserted for the first time into a computer (Windows) and getting your “license” agreement under the pretence of installing the music player, will install what …