We, as in the “Royal” We, as in the Kingdom of Bahrain, as in Mumtalakat Holdings, the totally Bahraini government owned company which is supposed to also own all of the government companies and companies which the government has a better than 50% stake in, nows owns 30% of McLarren! How sweet is that? Here’s …
Haifaa Al-Mansour will be showing her much acclaimed film Women without Shadows tonight at 6PM at the Bahrain Cinema Club. The film and its director both received various local and international accolades, some of which are: The Golden Dagger in Muscat Film Festival for best documentary- 2006 The Critics Golden Dagger for best film- Muscat …
Mahmood on a Segway… AGAIN!, originally uploaded by malyousif. Yep, a couple of months after I fell of a Segway and broke my back, I went on one this afternoon at my friend’s office! This version is the "four wheel drive" of Segways! It was so saweet. The turning mechanism is totally different in that …
My brother Hani called this afternoon and before his customary “Hi” he posed the rather confusing question: “Did you see it?” I thought he finally flipped and the British weather has addled his brains… “See WHAT?” I replied, “the iPhone!” he said, exasperated. “The iWhat? No way, they didn’t did they?” “Oh yes they did.. …
The new Media Sustainability Index is another metric which has just been released – for the first time – covering media freedoms in the Middle East and North Africa. This program is by the International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) and yet again shows the low level of media freedoms and independence in this area. …