Remember this? Well, leading businessmen had their inaugural meeting in which they announced the formation of their charity organisation and agreed on its objectives, which I am extremely happy to note is not just limited to traditional giving of alms, as the various charities and Islamist societies on the island have been doing for ages, …
In the year-end fun department: It turns out that looking at the aggregation of billions of search queries people type into Google reveals something about our curiosity, our thirst for news, and perhaps even our desires. Considering all that has occurred in 2005, we thought it would be interesting to study just a few of …
Mahmood, originally uploaded by HaniAlYousif. I don’t know how old I was then, and didn’t expect this picture to EVER surface, but thanks to my youngest brother Hani, it did. Yes, that’s me!
Shut shops for Friday prayers Shops, restaurants, coffee houses, garages and other workshops could be forced by law to close for two hours for Friday prayers, if MPs get their way. Those caught opening from 11am to 1pm on Fridays would be fined or their establishments closed for a week, under proposals backed by parliament …
While the Gulf has become the location for some competitive real estate booms in recent months, Bahrain has been anxious not to get left out. Yet with several projects under construction and more in the pipeline, there seems little chance of that.