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.

Special Registration For Muslim Visitors Ends in the US, but starts for Foreigners in Bahrain!

Talk about double standards! The big hullabaloo about forced registrations of foreigners in the States riled every single Muslim on the planet, now we have the chairman of the Bahraini Parliament proposing that all foreigners on the island to have them electronically scanned. The excuse he’s using is that this process will “ease” their interaction …

Marriage Fund?

Now it’s the Shura Council’s turn to have a brain-fart. Some bright spark looked at the marriage statistics in Bahrain in 2001 and decided that not enough Bahrainis are marrying each other with most men opting to have foreign wives, so what does he propose? Throw money at the problem and it’ll go away! He’s …

Rain!

We’ve had a really good shower last night, accompanied with a huge lightening show and its accompanying sound effects. The dogs were cowering! It’s the first time for Pheobe, but Gnasher is an old hand at this now. Still, the thunder was so loud that it woke us all up to enjoy the spectacle. These …