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My sister Abeer has just given birth to a baby boy. Ala’a – her husband – and her called him Nasser, after my father, rest his soul. Welcome Nasser!
Happy Independence Day Bahrain!
Okay, 1701 has been adopted. Fragile as it is, it is still generally holding, even with Hizballah and Israel exchanging fire again this morning (Hizballah has been reported to have fired up to 10 Katyusha rockets at Israeli positions within Southern Lebanon) and as people in their thousands have started the re-migration back to what …
This time, it’s welcome to my good friend and neighbour: President Mahmood Ahmadi Nejad. He’s only got the standard “Hello World” post at the moment which naturally enough is a biography of his good self, and in which he prays: “Oh Almighty God, please, we beg you to send us our Guardian- who You have …