Rarely do I enjoy commentary like that of Khaled Al-Mutawwa of Al-Wasat. His studied acerbic style cuts through the chaff and gets to the crux of the issue in a language few of his fellow columnists master. Today, his forthright and deep analysis was put to good use to serve some rather sour-tasting medicine to …
This is one of the best satirical and a direct punch to the guts piece by Mohammed Al-Othman, the columnist at Al-Wasat newspaper and ends it with exposing a scandal! Whether Bahrainis will do anything about it (if tree of course) is anyone’s guess.. but I personally won’t hold my breath. I don’t have time …
And he’s got a new recruit too. The surprising thing – well, unsurprising really – is that this “phenomenon” seems to be a feature of the Muslim Brotherhood specifically. First it was our effervescent Mo Khalid, the original Satanwala, then now it’s the big kahuna at Al-Menbar Islamic Society who has done some “good Internet …
by Al-Wasat‘s cartoon artist Hussain Al-Shakhoori caption: placard reads: “Down with Secularism”, the shadow reads: “Secularism”
There is an excellent investigative and opinion piece in Al-Wasat today about blogs and blogging in Bahrain by Adel Marzooq (Arabic). He raises quite a number of questions which require some mulling over and addressed – maybe at our next bloggers’ gathering or through a series of posts (or podcasts?) as thinking about them can …