Manal and Alaa's bit bucket

Chan’ad Bahraini has the details.Incidentally, about two weeks ago I got an email at my blog address from the Bahraini Office of Foreign Media Affairs asking if they could subscribe me to their press releases about Bahrain. I said yes and since then got emails about recent reforms in Bahrain (for instance the royal budget [...]

Megan Stack of the LA Times has a very nice story on the Shia of Bahrain, or Ajam, and their struggle for political recognition. It focuses on one family that has returned from exile in Canada and tries to find its footing in the midst of promises of reform. As always with Megan, it is [...]

As the debate rages on over the publication of controversial cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, Arab bloggers are reacting with their own take on the events that have unfolded over the past few days. Early on Jyllands-Posten stated that the cartoons were a test of whether ...