Since last night the server has been acting up, and I couldn’t do anything with it thanks to Batelco’s screwups as well. Finally it seems that Batelco’s problems (this time) are over and the internet is functioning normally again. I had a chance to do something about the server today, you might have noticed several …
In half an hour, the streets of Manama will reverberate to the music of high-powered engines. The GT caravan is driving through town, starting from Seef through to the BIC in Sukheer passing just outside my office on the King Faisal highway. That’s where you’ll find me, taking pictures, or trying to anyway if they’re …
In September of this past year, Bahrain signed a Free Trade Pact with the United States. The opinions on the matter vary from a new Zionist Conspiracy to undermine the Arab world to complete indifference to absolute ecstacy that someone in Washington could actually find Bahrain. When Bahraini pearls show up at Bloomingdale’s, I’ll let …
The weather has changed in Bahrain since yesterday. It’s windy and much colder than it has been. In fact, you can always tell that it is winter in Bahrain (and the surrounding area) when you actually get cold water from the cold tap! No matter. Today in particular, in the colder weather or not, I …
It’s Thanksgiving in the United States! To all our American readers, to those in the United States who will spend the extended weekend with family and friends; To those abroad in the service who are away from loved ones and perhaps in the most dangerous of situations; and especially to those in Bahrain and the …