Buchart Garden, originally uploaded by One Date Wonder. Is there any chance that we would have a public garden in Bahrain with this much thought, this much love, and this much passion put into it so that people, everybody, to enjoy? We have a lot of public spaces, little neighbourhood parks which have nothing but …
Bahrain is the second country after Oman to publicly state that it won’t make it to the 2010 Gulf single currency target. The crown prince said in a comprehensive interview with McKenzie Quarterly (also reported in Arabic in Al-Waqt yesterday) that the main economic factors – inflation metrics, jobs, fiscal policies, transparency, etc – are …
MP Ibrahim Busandal, the Asalah MP, wants to introduce mandatory Islamic taxation (zakat). Here are his justifications for doing so:
We have enough crazies in Islam already, we don’t need one more!
Z’haaaaaaaaayweeeeeeeeeeeee For an explanation of this extremely important word, please click here.