Tag Archives: political-parties

Elections coming up!

Finally, we have some movement. Of course there is no guarantee that the anticipated movement will be good, as there are no guarantees for it being the opposite, but as the local idiom goes: “الحركة بركة” – loosely translated: “in movement there is a blessing” So the king invited the heads of the political societies …

Very quickly

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 …

الملك حمد: مشاركة الجهات المقاطعة ستكون من أجمل الأيام

قصر الصافرية – منصور الجمري قال جلالة الملك حمد بن عيسى آل خليفة في لقاء خاص عقده مع رؤساء تحرير الصحف المحلية أمس الاول ان مستوى الصحافة المحلية قد تطور، وأصبح ما يكتب من تغطيات وأعمدة يقرأ على المستويات المحلية والخليجية والعربية، ولا يمكن الاستغناء عن الصحافة الحرة لأنها «ذراع» للاصلاح، وأكد جلالته أن الصحافي …

Mohammed Khalid’s Heroes

On the 6th of this month, we woke up to the news that the Bahrain Charge d’Affairs in Iraq has been shot and wounded in a botched kidnapping attempt. Hassan Al-Ansari’s quick thinking saved his life. In a separate incident, the Egyptian ambassador was kidnapped, and later killed according to reports. Terrorists in Iraq seem …