picture credit: Al-Jazeera Most definitely, if you read the majority of what has already been written and analysed to death about Hamas winning the elections in Palestine. Some have even suggested that we (the Arabs) are not ready for democracy, simply because Islamists might (read most definitely) get to power. Hogwash. Democracy as an ideal …
I was watching my very first vlog again and was surprised at the amount of change that happened to the garden over the last 6 months. I am not done with it yet, not by a long shot, but just seeing the changes that happened to it since I had the initial landscapers is amazing. …
It looks like we’ll finally be shot of him (arabic). Good News< ™>! What did he do in his single year (assuming that he will in fact be kicked out of the cabinet in the next few days): 1. Nothing substantive that would have elevated this country’s reputation in the world. 2. Closed down alcohol-serving …
We now have a novel site whose author would like us to think that he is doing us Bahrainis a huge favour by “exposing” activists with an agenda. Activists which he describes as not only as cowardly traitors, which it seems he can put up with, but much more disgustingly to him as Shi’a. I …
The restructuring of Bahrain’s power and water sector has brought the country its largest ever privatisation deal. This week, a consortium of three companies bought the al-Hidd power and water plant from the government at a cost of $738m, one of the largest power privatisations signed in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) area to date. …