It was a good show and I met with great people who I have admired for a long time. It was wonderful to put faces to name and online personalities. The discussion was excellent, though probably too short of course to cover all the topics we wanted to cover; however, it is enough to entice …
Month: February 2007
I’ll be off to Kuwait this afternoon to appear on Dr. Shafiq Al-Ghabra’s forthcoming “Diwaniyat Al-Isbou – ديوانية الإسبوع” as one of the participants on the program which deals with the “Blogging Phenomenon” in Kuwait specifically and the Gulf generally. I am so looking forward to this! The program will be recorded tonight, but I …
We went to bury a relation yesterday. The old lady was ill for a long while unfortunately. She was much loved by her children, relations and the community around her. May she rest in peace now. This is the "Shi’a" cemetery in Hoora, in the Bahraini capital Manama. Due to the copious rains we’ve had …
Anwar Abdulrahman: Now that readers are fully in the picture about this Washington scenario, I ask them a few simple questions. Is this not an act of conspiracy? Is this not a betrayal of trust? Is this not an act of treason by any country’s standards? Or do we understand that under American globalisation such …
A vlog, finally! Arif and I attacked the frangipani patch where all the parakeets and the birds come to feed. That has always been the most difficult patch to grow things in I think because it is the windiest and coldest part of the garden. The frangipani survives, but it certainly does not thrive as …