Tag Archives: Politics

Bahrain… to the world cup?

We have a saying in Arabic which translates to “some people’s misfortune is others’ fortune!” This is an apt saying for what is being discussed at the moment for the disqualification of Iran from the forthcoming World Cup in protest over the continuing Iranian nuclear ambitions, and its calls for the eradication of Israel: ‘Renewed …

Green fields to nowhere

I don’t suppose that the government really intends to have a fair and free elections this year for the municipal and parliamentary elections. Nor is it demonstrating that famed “Arab Hospitality”. In fact it is demonstrating quite the opposite with them closing the National Democratic Institute and throwing its director out of the country without …