Stories about Bahrain from December, 2006
Arabisc: Imprisoned Egyptian Blogger Lost in Legal Wrangle!
In my last post, I translated excrepts from a post written by Egyptian blogger Abdulkareem Sulaiman, who is being held in custody for articles he wrote online, describing the unhealthy...
Arabisc: Asian Games, Democracy and Models
Why was there no celebration of the Arab heritage in the opening of the Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, and what is the relationship between democracy and models and why...
The Week That Was in Bahrain
Bahrain has just completed round two of its Parliamentary and Municipal Council elections, which saw a majority government-backed Islamist Parliament in place. According to Mahmood Al Yousif, only one ‘liberal’...