Haifaa Al-Mansour will be showing her much acclaimed film Women without Shadows tonight at 6PM at the Bahrain Cinema Club. The film and its director both received various local and international accolades, some of which are: The Golden Dagger in Muscat Film Festival for best documentary- 2006 The Critics Golden Dagger for best film- Muscat …
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 …
Not accepting defeat, the extremists became violent, started beating the actors and whoever stood between them and between achieving their goal of destroying the night, including audiences and students. Gun shots in the air, the security officer decided put an end to this mess and bring back order. more on SaudiSphere Ladies and gentlemen, this …
With the wealth of information access in the Arab world, courtesy of the internet and satellite TVs, more and more people are rightly asking for their God-given rights, rather than just be happy with those “bestowed” on them by kings and presidents. Those times, have gone and will never come back. Witness Wajiha al-Huweidar, she …
I sure hope so, and judging by this article, it might well be the beginning of the end, and not a moment too soon, says I: “This is one of the blessings of September 11. It put the brakes on the [Wahhabi] practice of takfir , excommunicating everyone who didn’t exactly follow their creed,” said …