A young girl, Iranian girl, has made a movie that is now up for one of the top awards in the Venice Film Festival. It is a documentary about her sister, Samira Makhmalbaf, making her latest film in Afghanistan, and has been chosen for the festival’s critics’ week. bbc – 23/7/03 This makes me very …
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While Dubai hotels are bursting at the seems, even at the height of summer where traditionally the whole Gulf transforms itself into a ghost town, the Bahraini government continues to send conflicting signals in regard to what they understands as tourism. You talk to any hotel manager in Bahrain and all you will hear are …
Regular visitors will know that I like to “tinker” with this site as an easy way to get my blood pressure shooting through the roof. Why resort to fighting with your wife/girlfriend if you can screw up your site so much by installing, removing and re-installing trial beta code? Take it from me, your blood …
News that Bahrain is reviewing a draft policy to introduce a three-percent basic rate of income tax should be welcomed. The Bahraini move, would be merely a starting point  ripe for further reform if the situation demanded. In effect it is an attempt at partial taxation, because the revenue generated would be ring-fenced to …