Have you noticed that blogs in each country in the Gulf have a collective theme or trend? I have and I would like to hear your thoughts on this as well. The excellent The Muscatis blog has written about this phenomenon over a year ago, and now a fellow Omani blog, Wardat Al-Khaleej has amplified …

following the leads of Kuwait, Bahrain and even Saudi, the Emirates now decides to have a shot at democracy. Good on them. The more the better.

[arabic]الأول : كيÙ?Ùƒ يا زلمة وكيÙ?Ùˆ ابوك ان شا لله تحسن صارلي سنين ما Ø´Ù?تك التاني : انا ماشي حالي الحمد لله بس الوالد عطاك عمرو الأول :العمر إلك بعرÙ? كان عندو القلب يالله الله يرحمو التاني : بس والله ما مات من القلب الأول : كيÙ? توÙ?Ù‰ التاني : الله يرحمو بآخر Ù?ترة ضعÙ? …

Saudi women in an extremely surprising development get elected to the board of directors of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce. Congratulations Lama Al Suleiman and Nashwa Taher, I wonder when people in so called liberated Bahrain will start voting for women to hold office here? Unfortunately they didn’t fair very well in the recent Chamber …

The government is being so amateurish lately that it boggles the mind how they actually continue to believe that the only way to rule is by sweeping problems under carpets, rather than courageously coming out and facing them head on. Isn’t this attitude the very thing that started the “troubles” of the ’90s? We have …