BahrainBlogs.org, the free blog publishing platform is dead and I don’t have the time to continue to maintain it, especially considering the plethora of various free and much better managed platforms available on the net like Blogger and WordPress. Therefore, I have decided to re-define the domain’s role to just an aggregator which now moves …
All ministries and government departments will be closed for 10 consecutive days from Friday. These include December 16 and 17 marking National Day and the accession of His Majesty King Hamad to the throne. Arafah Day, which falls on Tuesday, will also be a public holiday, followed by three days for Eid Al Adha. Ministries …
I’ve just come back from a very interesting talk given by Dr. Khaled Abdulla who was a guest speaker at tonights Rotary Club of Adliya meeting. Dr. Khaled is one of the pre-eminent economists in Bahrain as his very successful career asserts. In tonight’s talk entitled “Oil Prices and Impact on the Economy“, he posed …
This is the first time I try my hands at hanging baskets. I bought 4 large ceramic hanging baskets from Al-Sultan Garden Centre in Khobar a while ago and they’ve been staring at me in the shed since. I finally got the chance to coax them off the shelf and onto brackets in the weekend …
My all time favourite columnist and activist – Mona Eltahawy – has finally inaugurated her own blog! Well done Mona, and thank you. It’s about bloody time you joined us! Watch her go to the very top of Technorati’s lists in no time… and deservedly so too.