Year: 2005

Moderates win!

The “hawks” of Al-Wefaq have resigned in response to the society’s decision to re-register under the new Political Societies Law which specifically recognises the Constitution of 2002. Shaikh Hassan Mushaim’i, Dr. Abduljalil Al-Singaise and Dr. Saeed Al-Shehabi say that their resignation decision is final. The board of directors however have not accepted Shaikh Hassan Mushaim’i’s …

The abiding fear

Arab regimes, ALL of them, being used to control what, where, how and when thoughts are printed, have a total almost debilitating fear of the internet and how it freed their societies, and given them a voice unhindered by whatever draconian laws or technologies they throw at it. Megan Stack now looks at the blogging …

BahrainBlogs.com is alive

Succumbing to pressure, I’ve resurrected BahrainBlogs.com and installed the necessary software to aggregate all the Bahraini blogs I know of. The chosen software is WordPress 1.5, while the plugin that does all the heavy work is from Red Geek. It’s been working for a couple of weeks now, but still needs some fine tuning which …