Imagine a person in full Arab dress walking in front of a few hundred people in Scotland and declaring “I am an Arab” and pointing at his attire continues “and I am NOT armed!” This is how “Taking the Peace” revue starts with Nader Shaheen commanding the stage and commanding an inordinate amount of laughs …
Syria has closed down all offices and cut off phone lines belonging to radical Palestinian groups in Damascus, a Palestinian official announced over the weekend. Khaled Fahoum, the former Speaker of the Palestine National Council (the PLO’s parliament-in-exile), said the leaders of the Palestinian groups had gone underground for fear of being targeted by Israel. …
Not unlike the majority of business people in Bahrain, we have been suffering from the Bahrainisation policy adopted and enforced by the government which regulates the labour market and shoves unqualified, unwanted, unproductive and completely useless Bahraini job seekers down our throats and penalises us if we dare fire them. Thus disregarding the basic premise …
Al-Asala are at it again [arabic – al-wasat], not content with their proposal to be discussed in the forthcoming 3rd session of parliament to enact Islamic Shari’a laws, their next step is banning alcohol without for an instant taking into consideration and immense economic damage this move might incur, especially that there are various reports …
I would like to highlight a comment posted by Bahraini Terp which is well worth highlighting. Thank you Bahraini Terp for this very eloquent response and clarifications on where you (and I as well as most of us regulars here) think Arabs SHOULD stand today: I’d like to slap some myths upside the head here, …