Thoughts

The Pit-Lane!

The Pit-Lane Originally uploaded by malyousif. Do you need more proof that we were IN the pit-lane just before the main GT Festival race in Bahrain? EAT YOUR HEART OUT!! 🙂 Once again thanks to Amira Al-Hussaini, Shaikh Nasser Al-Khalifa and Tony Hart of Batelco! Picture taken by Arif Al-Yousif more pictures in the gallery

Another benchmark goes south

RSF published their annual report again, and unfortunately Bahrain’s ranking on press freedom dropped yet again. And it’s a downward spiral at a rate of knots: 2002: raked 67 2003: ranked 117 2004: ranked 143! Why? Was it that the people polled to rank Bahrain are increasingly pessimistic on the outlook of press freedoms in …

Margaret Hassan

Margaret has lived in Iraq for 30 years. She’s not only a naturalised Iraqi but has for the last 13 years been directly involved in trying to lift the suffering off her fellow Iraqi people. She has managed the British Councel for some time which means she also brought knowledge into the country and engendered …