Following on from the news of the arrest of a human rights activist a few days ago, the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs has now permanently closed the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, thus penalising a whole organisation for the public censure of one of its directors of the government and the prime minister. …
I’m off to Dubai for 4 days on business. See you when I come back, but let’s start a tradition which will be enacted every time I go away and that is: tarataraaaa: Mahmood.TV’s Scapegoat of the Moment :: MtvSM which should be fun and yet another reason to register!! I hope that nominee will …
Consanguineous marriages now comprise 39 percent of marriages, down from 45.5 percent in previous generations (Al-Arrayed, 1995). This trend for preferential first cousin marriage has serious health implications, including effects on sexual development for the children produced by these couples. The coefficient for inbreeding in Bahrain is 0.0145 (Al-Naser, 1993). The child mortality rate is …
Imagine a person in full Arab dress walking in front of a few hundred people in Scotland and declaring “I am an Arab” and pointing at his attire continues “and I am NOT armed!” This is how “Taking the Peace” revue starts with Nader Shaheen commanding the stage and commanding an inordinate amount of laughs …
Syria has closed down all offices and cut off phone lines belonging to radical Palestinian groups in Damascus, a Palestinian official announced over the weekend. Khaled Fahoum, the former Speaker of the Palestine National Council (the PLO’s parliament-in-exile), said the leaders of the Palestinian groups had gone underground for fear of being targeted by Israel. …