If you haven’t already, I encourage you to look at the Bahrain section of Wikipedia; the people maintaining that section have done a very good job, and especially about the recent elections with good background information and links that you might find useful. I find some of the entries a bit annoying as they seem …
For something that cost more that BD150 million, making a profit revenues of just over BD5 million in the 2nd year of operation, racking up a loss of BD49 million representing 65% of your paid up capital while giving away BD1.2 million in free tickets must have quite a few warning fog horns blaring. Is …
Purple flowers, originally uploaded by malyousif. My gardener insists on calling this lovely plant “Senarium” although I looked in all the reference books I’ve got about gardening and searched in the Internet using all iterations of the name and couldn’t find anything resembling it. It shouldn’t take me too long to actually find out though… …
It is with great sorrow that I learnt a few minutes ago that Shaikh Abdulamir Mansour Al-Jamri, one of the biggest personalities that helped shape the current era in Bahrain, has just passed away after a long illness. May Allah grant him peace and tranquillity and his children and family the patience and succour at …
Dec 17th is quite contentious in Bahrain, on one side it has been recently declared as Accession Day celebrating His Majesty’s accession to the throne, while on the other activists chose it to celebrate and commemorate the tens of martyrs who dearly laid down their lives in order to demand parliamentary life and democracy in …