Just saw this on today’s Al-Wasat:‬ ‪ العاهل يستقبل عائلة بنرجب استقبل عاهل البلاد جلالة الملك ØÂمد بنعيسى آل خليÙÂØ© بقصر الصاÙÂرية أمس عائلة بنرجب، وذلك للسلام على جلالته، وقد رØÂب عاهل البلاد بالجميع وتبادل معهم الأØÂاديث الودية. وأكد خلال اللقاء أنمملكة البØÂرينØÂققت الكثير منالإنجازات ÙÂيمختل٠الميادين، وذلك …
In a first for Bahrain, a sitting minister is arrested on charges of money laundering…
Municipalities and Agriculture Affairs Minister Mansoor bin Rajab – who had been accused of financial, administrative and constitutional irregularities – was cleared by a parliamentary committee yesterday. […] Cabinet Affairs Minister Shaikh Ahmed bin Ateyatala Al Khalifa had always denied keeping Bahrain’s population explosion a secret. However, he was let off the hook yesterday by …
Is a bastardisation of the translation of an Arabic idiom which is better transcribed in English as “Cleaner than a white thobe” at least – thobe being the Arabian traditional male garment – which might have taken away the derogatory insinuation given by the use of the word “dress”. This Arabic proverb is akin to …
I am so gratified that we have visionaries in this society and am doubly so when I find an honourable member of the reigning cabinet extends himself even further by bridging the cultural gap that maatems[1] traditionally play in society. For instance, what is wrong with local maatems, like the ancient and quite famous Ma’atem …