Access to one of Bahrain’s most influential blogs, https://mahmood.tv, which openly criticises government and parliament members and has of late being covering the “Bandargate†scandal currently shaking the country, was blocked yesterday. The blog’s author, Mahmood Al-Yousif, has nonetheless managed to move it to a new address, http://alyousif.tv/, which has not yet been blocked. The …
Over the last few days three things were brought to the fore in the local press after people continued to point fingers and talk about the situations in their majlises etc: one thing that has been talked about for years in Bahrain is the issue of naturalization, which is a very emotive subject with the …
My sister is over with her kids for the summer break, and we meet almost every lunchtime at dad’s house, and as she’s got young kids, they come with their cartoons library of DVDs for their lunchtime drugged silence while we eat! One of the DVDs they’re watching now is Finding Nemo which I love …
No no, it’s not a joke, it’s real, and what’s even MORE real is that the Bahraini who is heading the GA is a woman! The General Assembly elected a champion of women’s rights in Islamic courts as its next president on Thursday, making Haya Rashed Al Khalifa of Bahrain the third female to lead …
Ambassador Mahmoud Abdel Gawad Po Box 818, Villa 18, Road 23, Mahouz, Manama 332, Bahrain Tel: (+973) 1772 0005 Fax: (973) 1772 1518 email egyembbh@batelco.com.bh website Mubarak didn’t you have enough already? How old are you for goodness sake? 21 raring to take on the whole world by the scruff of the neck? No, you’re …