It is with great sorrow that I learnt a few minutes ago that Shaikh Abdulamir Mansour Al-Jamri, one of the biggest personalities that helped shape the current era in Bahrain, has just passed away after a long illness. May Allah grant him peace and tranquillity and his children and family the patience and succour at …
Dec 17th is quite contentious in Bahrain, on one side it has been recently declared as Accession Day celebrating His Majesty’s accession to the throne, while on the other activists chose it to celebrate and commemorate the tens of martyrs who dearly laid down their lives in order to demand parliamentary life and democracy in …
The Lake in front of our house, originally uploaded by malyousif. You want to know what it means when it rains in Bahrain? Well, this picture sums it up, the streets get submerged and the municipality doesn’t come around to suck that water away, it normally is left to fester until God decides to stop …
May you live for ever!
First, we had that Washington Post OpEd by Obaid, a security consultant for the Saudi government, in which he opined that: In February 2003, a month before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the Saudi foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, warned President Bush that he would be “solving one problem and creating five more” if he …