I’ve had the privilege to meet with Dr. Saad bin Tifla Al-Ajmi several times through the various conferences we happen to attend together, and the panels we shared at those conferences. The most recent one was a preparatory meeting for the forthcoming FIKR6 to take place in Manama in December 2007. The convened panel this time included some of the luminaries I have long admired like Al-Ajmi, Muneera Fakhro, Rola Dashti and other thinkers and personalities from around the Middle East.
As usual, we exchange cards, get to know each other better and continue to discuss topical issues during the breaks and through the conference. Of course we also exchange business cards so that we have each others’ latest contact details. I have just finished updating the details in my address book and that’s when I noticed that Saad wrote a new URL I was not familiar with on his card, but as he is involved in various youth, political and intellectual programs in Kuwait I thought it surely will be interesting to investigate further, and I was right and very happy to have come done so.
The site in question is Ma3ak.org whose front page immediately started the bells ringing and the lights to go on in my head when it finished loading!
مظلة العمل الكويتي(معك)
تجمع اجتماعيسياسيتشكل يوم السبت المواÙÂÙ‚ 2 / 6 / 2007 منمجموعة كبيرة منالشباب الكويتي، ÙŠØÂملونهموم الوطنويسعونإلى تعزيز الوØÂدة الوطنية وتكريس عمل مؤسسات المجتمع المدنيمنخلال تشكيل ÙÂرق عمل تعنى بمتابعة قضايا Ù…ØÂددة ÙÂيمجالات الشأنالعام المختلÙÂØ© كالتعليم والبيئة والصØÂØ© والشباب ÙˆØÂماية المستهلك ومØÂاربة الغش التجاري…إلخ.إنالشباب ÙÂيمظلة العمل الكويتي(معك) يؤمنونبأنالعمل السياسيمÙÂهومه أشمل مما هو متداول على الساØÂØ© السياسية الكويتية، ÙÂعلى الرغم منأهمية ما يدور ÙÂيمجلس الأمة منقضايا، ÙÂإننا نعتقد بأنالوضع الصØÂيوالسليم هو أنيكونالبرلمانانعكاس مباشر لنشاط مؤسسات المجتمع المدنيلا العكس.
لذا، ÙÂإنمظلة العمل الكويتي(معك) تعمل على تقديم رؤية جديدة للمشاركة ÙÂيالشأنالعام منخلال الاهتمام بمختل٠القضايا التيتهم الوطنوالمواطن.
This is a new political society “created by Kuwaiti youth and concerned with national issues and seek to promote national unity and consolidating the work of civil society institutions through the formation of task forces on and follow-up specific issues in the areas of public affairs, education, the environment, health, youth, consumer protection and the fight against commercial fraud”.
Wouldn’t it be great to form something like this in Bahrain? Wouldn’t this be a natural progression to the “Just Bahraini” campaign? Isn’t it time to start something that is non-sectarian and whose main motivation is to promote the same principles to ensure that we all live for a better and more comprehensive and unified Bahrain?
Comments
Unfortunately you would get caught in the crossfire.
great news
lookin forward such move in bahrain
no pain no gain…
It’s a very nice movement, and what is nicer is to have perceived by the people and the MP’s as an influential party of the people, not as a bunch of kids.
We need something like that in Bahrain, not that it will change anything, but as a movement that will eventually have a say in what is happening in Bahrain and in the suggestions and decisions that are being made by the MP’s.
a movement of this scale is a great chance for the youth to realize the power of the common citizen, the power that many of us lost hope in, and gives them a chance to grow their political views in a mature way rather than learning from the wrong area’s.
The most important thing in making such and organization effective and rather educational, is to have its own political views and not to be influenced by one party, it needs to be driven by the Passion for the nation and the well to develop a country.
Eyad
give it a year or two then you will find it hijacked by one political party or another
just like everything else in kuwait ..
at least it’s a start, a good start.