Hah! What is this world coming to? Don’t they have respect for class, for the local people, for men? What the hell has she got to become the Minister of Justice in France? Lawyer Rachida Dati, named as French justice minister by President Sarkozy, is the first person of North African origin to hold a …
Wasn’t it only a few years ago that the then Minister of the Interior got, erm, sidegraded because he ordered his troops to “intervene” against a public demonstration attended by high religious figures, in which one of those respected figures got injured and taken to hospital? When the new minister took the reigns and due …
Having revisited the site more than 20 years later last Saturday, Dr Sheppard described how “depressing” the scene had become. “I don’t know of any sort of destruction like (the one at Fasht Al Adhm) happening elsewhere, it was depressing,” he said. “In the last 20 years, there has been a massive shift of corals …
There is an excellent investigative and opinion piece in Al-Wasat today about blogs and blogging in Bahrain by Adel Marzooq (Arabic). He raises quite a number of questions which require some mulling over and addressed – maybe at our next bloggers’ gathering or through a series of posts (or podcasts?) as thinking about them can …
Saturday, with nothing better to do other than pottering in the garden and in the depths of the folders and documents I have in this computer. Lo and behold what I found: my full name! Ready, deep breath and read this (this is going to be my full email address at gmail too): السيد Ù…ØÂمود …