mahmood

An Arab man's attempt at bridging the cultural gap and trying to make a difference. Failing a lot. Succeeding once in a while.

Another benchmark goes south

RSF published their annual report again, and unfortunately Bahrain’s ranking on press freedom dropped yet again. And it’s a downward spiral at a rate of knots: 2002: raked 67 2003: ranked 117 2004: ranked 143! Why? Was it that the people polled to rank Bahrain are increasingly pessimistic on the outlook of press freedoms in …

It’s almost over now…

Just another 24 hours and we’ll know who’ll “lead the world”, or at least the United States of America. It being a very important global event, of course you will find desperate and disperate entities trying to influence the outcome as best they can. Some, like MEMRI for example, are being unscrupulous about it. Fortunately, …