Ghada Jamsheer: Activist “We have to have equal rights for women in the Arab world” By SCOTT MACLEOD Sunday, May. 14, 2006 Five years ago, Ghada Jamsheer was at the courts in Bahrain when she saw a woman sobbing and banging her head on the ground; applying Islamic law, a judge had just denied her …
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Not a lot of people valued Fawzi Julaid‘s input into the shaping of Bahrain’s fledgeling democracy nor understood his efforts until he was practically deported off the island, treated like one of the thousands of illegal and run-away workers, rather than a valued person who has worked tirelessly to inculcate democracy’s mechanisms in Bahrain. Even …
We have a saying in Arabic which translates to “some people’s misfortune is others’ fortune!” This is an apt saying for what is being discussed at the moment for the disqualification of Iran from the forthcoming World Cup in protest over the continuing Iranian nuclear ambitions, and its calls for the eradication of Israel: ‘Renewed …
DSC02486, originally uploaded by FLYbyNIGHT. No, this is not off a computer game screen, this is a shot captured in real life by my friend, mentor and teacher Kieran O’Carrol who now works for Cathay Pacific and lives in Hong Kong. Bahrain certainly lost an excellent teacher when he left, but life goes on and …