How difficult is it to understand and enact the World Health Organisation’s recommendations to reduce the risk of COVID-19? Just wear a mask, wash your hands with soap frequently or use an alcohol based sanitizers and keep a distance of one meter from others.That’s it! Just do the above and you’ll have a good chance not to contract the disease.WHO didn’t qualify its advice with “sometimes” or “inshallah” or “let’s pray and hold a …
By mahmood 
By mahmood 
Having a small business in Bahrain is nothing less than a Sisyphean task. It’s agonising. Heart wrenching. Soul crushing. Doesn’t end. And one has to deal with a myriad of hindrances to business. Growing a small business is an even harder enterprise. Everything is lobbied at you not to succeed. One of the main detriments to business success here in Bahrain is unfair competition.Competition is fierce and it’s almost always a price to the bottom. …
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This quote came to mind this afternoon from an Arabic novel I read a while ago by the Tunisian writer Ahlam Mosteghanemi. The quote goes something like this:“Nothing hears the most nonsense in the world as a painting hanging in a museum”or in Arabic: “لا شئ يسمع الحماقات الأكثر في العالم مثل لوحة في متحف”Ahlam MosteghanemiI feel like that painting sometimes when I’m sat in front of some customers who want my service, but …
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I fell upon this post in my drafts folder here. I started writing it on 16 June 2016. Re-reading it now, it still holds true, though I didn’t follow its concept completely over the last couple of years. This is a good reminder to take note of the process and put the next half of the year in perspective and note down the goals I want to achieve for this generally miserable year.Time to make …
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