I’m not going to bother to write too much about this as it happens again and again and they never learn, or maybe they actually do and it is the price they have to pay in order to keep their seats. Proof really that the US President and his whole government enchilada are simply the …
Month: July 2007
A quick reminder that the gathering is happening this Thursday evening (Aug 2nd) at 7pm in Al-Bareh Café. On the agenda this time is a suggestion to move the meetings from Thursday evenings to Saturday mornings and any other thing you wish to talk about.
Iraq’s captain Younis Mahmood header clinched the Asian Cup championship to a well-deserving Iraq! The final (which I did not watch but just as happy for the result) between two Arab giants Saudi and Iraq must have been a nail-biter, but as we are all rooting for some good news for Iraq and Iraqis I …
Al-Jazeera English’s Abdulrahman Al-Shayyal produced a short documentary to explore the sectarian divide in Bahrain. He came and interviewed me amongst many other Bahrainis to find out the underlying reason that these tensions exist. Here’s the segment he produced:
Bahrain’s Wafa Yaqoop beat 19 other candidates to win the Miss Arab World 2007 title on Friday. Yaqoop is Bahrain’s first ever contestant in the event. Candidates to the contest held in Egypt came from 16 Arab countries, including Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, Iraq, Libya and Palestine. The jury consisted of fashion, beauty and tourism experts …