We’ve just come back from watching Charlie Wilson’s War [IMDB] which we enjoyed, generally, except for the various obvious censored parts which was extremely annoying and yet another affirmation of my hating to watch movies in cinemas in Bahrain. I suspect that the ham fisted attempts at controlling what we view this time is not …
Hameed Karimi, the Art connoisseur, originally uploaded by malyousif. My friend Hameed and I had the good fortune to attend an art exhibit by the world renowned artist Mohammed Omar Khalil at Al-Bareh gallery in Adliya last night. We both readily confess that we are not art connoisseurs, contrary to popular belief, but we like …
Thanks to an anonymous donor, we received BD2,323 to make up the shortfall of our target of BD8,500 fund-raising efforts for the first phase of the Just Bahraini campaign! Thank you very much! I’ve got a lot of ideas that we can use creatively in order to propagate the message of unity in Bahrain and …
Bush is coming to town. He’ll probably fly in on a helicopter from some big tub floating in the Gulf, that the Iranians have taken an inexplicable fancy to all of a sudden, land in the naval base in Juffair, shake some hands, visit with some illustrious personages whom he will make sure they understand …
Free Fouad! Update 080107: excellent article (Arabic) written by Dr. Mohammed Al-Ahmari in a Saudi magazine applauding Fouad and asking the difficult question as to why it is the West that champions our human rights activists and writers while we (Arabs) are content to maintain our slumber. Click the banner to read it. Click here …