Thoughts

Al-Watan hits the racks

We have a new daily newspaper in Bahrain called Al-Watan (The Nation.) It’s first issue was released yesterday, unfortunately I couldn’t get a copy, however although it had good articles, and promises that it will do more investigative journalism and fresh opinion pieces, I am left unimpressed. Maybe because it just “bought” some journalists already …

We deserve the parliament we vote for

We shouldn’t really cry over Friday sermons delivered by a right honourable member of parliament, religious leader and imam Shaikh Jassim Al-Saidi when he ends his sermons with: اللهم إلعن اليهود Ùˆ النصارى Ùˆ الرافضه Ùˆ أرني فيهم يوماً أسود Oh Allah curse the Jews, Christians and the Shi’a and show me in them a …

Not again!

Can anyone guess what Bahrain’s press freedom index is going to be for 2006? No? Well let’s look at the trend, so we can realistically predict the future: 2002 = 67 2003 = 117 2004 = 167 2005 = 123 Let’s also consider other factors that might assist us in this prediction; emoodz broke the …