
Update 060208-1444: Check out my brother Jamal’s photostream on Flickr. He has good shots of the precession of last night.
Here are other tags you might want to have a look at as well: Ashoora and Ashura. Same thing but different spelling.

I can’t do a better job than that fish Chan’ad is doing, so I defer to him, as should you, to experience this uniquely Bahraini Cultural Event.
Here’s Wikipedia’s take.



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Cultural Muharram
Thanks for the link. Great pictures.