I was reading an article on wired.com this morning about video blogs, and guess which link on that article led me back to THIS vlog!! 🙂 big grin… biiiig grin! Welcome, if you’re just come in from wired.com.

Whenever I hear the word democracy, I shiver. Since the term became a rallying cry in Western foreign policy, it has come to mean a set of priorities and values that are essentially American and European. As such, for many of us here in the Middle East, democracy has become dated as a philosophy that …

First it was MSNBC which featured Mahmood’s Den in connection to the London bombing… Then this morning I got a couple of sms messages telling me that I’ve been quoted in both the Times and the Guardian! Fame!!

Finally and thanks to the International Constitutional Law (ICL), I have now put up the full Bahrain 2002 Constitution in a TEXT form rather than pdf, and more importantly, every single Article, Section and Chapter has an anchor so you can refer to that section directly if you wish in your posts or comments. The …

I understand completely – from a cultural and traditional points of view – that you shouldn’t demonstrate in front of the King’s court or his residence. He’s the top authority in the kingdom and his person represents not only law and order, but the dignity of this country. What I can’t understand is why, over …