Year: 2007

Finally, a charity with a brain

Houses of worship are important to any community. They build communities’ spirits and spirituality which makes their buildings hallowed halls, and hence, the human psyche and people’s need for immortality made their construction a sought after enterprise. This might also explain the quantity of these halls in almost all societies. In Bahrain for instance, even …

Happy 16th Hanan!

My little daughter turned 16 today. I won’t go into the usual “I can’t believe it” stuff, suffice it to say that Frances, I and her sister and brother are thrilled and are overjoyed for Hanan and we wish her all a very very happy birthday and hope that the whole day and the rest …

Billionaires

There are 30 billionaires in the Arab world with a collective wealth worth of $125.3 billion, Forbes in its 2007 list of the world’s richest people has announced. The world’s total number of billionaires totalled 946 with a collective net worth of $3.5 trillion, a significant increase from the 2006 figures of 793 billionaires with …

Hands off our throats!

واعرب سمو ولي‮ ‬العهد في‮ ‬حديث لرئيس التحرير على متن الطائرة الملكية،‮ ‬عن آسفه لموقف الوزراء الذي‮ ‬وصفه بانه‮ ‬غير مسؤول من‮ »‬ربيع الثقافة‮«‬،‮ ‬وقال‮ »‬ان لا أحد قال كلمة طيبة وانا مستاء جدا وموقفي‮ ‬هذا نابع من حرصي‮ ‬على المستقبل‮«.‬ وحذر سمو ولي‮ ‬العهد من ان فكرا‮ ‬غير مسؤول وسياسات ضيقة تخدم فئة معينة،‮ …