“First they banned dolls, then they banned stuffed toys and now this. I don’t know where all this will stop,” said Turki, a 20-year-old student in Riyadh who did not want to give his full name and who owns a cell phone camera he bought locally. Last December, the Interior Ministry announced a ban on …
Following on from the news of the arrest of a human rights activist a few days ago, the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs has now permanently closed the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, thus penalising a whole organisation for the public censure of one of its directors of the government and the prime minister. …
I’m off to Dubai for 4 days on business. See you when I come back, but let’s start a tradition which will be enacted every time I go away and that is: tarataraaaa: Mahmood.TV’s Scapegoat of the Moment :: MtvSM which should be fun and yet another reason to register!! I hope that nominee will …
Consanguineous marriages now comprise 39 percent of marriages, down from 45.5 percent in previous generations (Al-Arrayed, 1995). This trend for preferential first cousin marriage has serious health implications, including effects on sexual development for the children produced by these couples. The coefficient for inbreeding in Bahrain is 0.0145 (Al-Naser, 1993). The child mortality rate is …
The papers are full this morning of the King and the Crown Prince visiting the Prime Minister at his office. When this sort of thing happens, you just know that someone somewhere has “talked bad” about the ruling family or the prime minister specifically. Thinking on it, there was supposed to have been a seminar …