I was shocked to learn that in part of the “National Arab Conference” that will be held in Bahrain with the participation of 600 political and intellectual Arab personalities the Iraqi Muslim Scholars Authority President …

I was never a big fan of a sport that involves skinny men running around kicking an inflated ball for 90 minutes hoping to get it between two poles, or that of gigantically tall men …

هناك تنتهي تخوم وتبدأ أخرى.
وهناك يبردون في الشتاء ويذبلون في الصيف، حيث الطقس غير معتدل دائما وفيه الكثير من الوجوم وفي المنازل المزيد من البطون وأكثر منها الأضراس التي تريد أن تعمل.
وهناك أناس لا ينصاعون …

The clip up above was aired on Bahrain national TV yesterday April 22nd 2007. As an opening to an hour long live debate discussing the on going acts of violence that have recently escalated around …

I wonder if it was inspired by the wall in the movie “300″, The Guardian reports the construction of a three mile long concrete barrier as a new solution to Iraq’s civil war.
The US military …

So boycotting isn’t the hype anymore, newspapers are now advertising a Qatari campaign to collect one million signatures to show condemnation “to the horrors of what’s taking place to Al-Aqsa Mosque“.
Neither Palestine, nor the Palestinians …

The article below was printed in AlWasat Newspaper, 3rd Page on Thursday 19th of April 2007 (Source). Have I really missed that this was previously publicized around the local media sometime back?

Why exactly is this …

Another fascinating night in the “Spring of Culture” and its sizzling hot this time! I was one of those who practically filled in the stands on “Brasil Brasilerio” last Friday at Arad Fort.
I sat through …

“One hour” is the time it took me to drive back from the bloggers meet up in AlBareh Café to my house in East Riffa, one whole hour I spent flipping through one video clip …

There’s “irrational” as in “crazy like a fox” and there’s “irrational” as in “out of touch with reality.” I had very little respect to the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, ever since his early days in …

I don’t get it, why do those “public figures” try so hard to rub in the fact that they are Bedouins upon us all! Be it the endurance races, the public nabati poetry, the long …

AlAyam Newspaper 25th of March 2007, Front Page. Head of Public Security Lieutenant A.Latif AlZayani is quoted in bold asserting:

The security forces do not use rubber bullets to disperse unlawful demonstrations or marches, stressing that …

The clip above is of a now very widely spread “hippy dance” among young khalijis. It is one (with some folkloric origins to it of some sort) performed by two or more women as shown …