Mahmood’s Den, In Arabic!

Yep, I’ve taken the plunge and started a new blog in which I shall (from time to time) publish content in Arabic. The intention – at the moment at least – is to get more comfortable with expressing myself in Arabic. Will there be exclusive content: don’t know yet, Will the ideas there be different …

Diplomacy lessons

I confess that I’m normally not a very good team player. I’ve always liked individual sports and individual pursuits rather than be a part of a team, hell, I couldn’t take the stupid politics while working for Gulf Air so much that I decided to leave and start my own company. So you will excuse …

Going South

If you’re already wet, would being sprayed make you even wetter? What if you jumped in the pool when you’re already wet, would that make you wetter? Of course not. So what if Bahrain once again went south in its ranking in the Press Freedom Index for 2006? Okay, it’s just a few ranking postions: …