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Was a student of Political Science for 13 years. Then got interested in teaching and did so for a short while. Asked by my government to be the Media Attache in DC. Did that and learned a lot while achieving a lot. Now, back out of government, working for Bahrain's economic well-being, and blogging again. Why am I rare? Because I'm street smarter than you and book smarter as well. How about that for confidence?
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I Love You… Oil!
Can you imagine paying tax for the air you breath! Believe it or not, this does exist! More than that, in many countries, people pay more than 50% of their income to the government. I was told, in Britain’s… Read More ›
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You’re All Losers if You Fail to Win
When I was 18 years old, I found myself in the biggest, hardest, and toughest challenge I have ever been through in my life. I was thrown in an instant in a culture, a place, a country that is amazingly… Read More ›
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Should We Ban the Internet in Bahrain?
Is the internet a good or a bad thing? That is the question we should ask ourselves before making a decision on whether to limit the use of the internet in Bahrain, and any other state in the world. Simply,… Read More ›
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Who Is Better For Bahrain, Obama, or Romney?
We are approaching a presidential election in America, and one of two may end up becoming the strongest person in the world for the next four years. USA’s current president Barack Obama is at the moment facing a strong… Read More ›
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It’s Not Just About Us by .@tomfriedman
Original Article Here Mitt Romney gave a foreign policy speech on Monday that could be boiled down to one argument: everything wrong with the Middle East today can be traced to a lack of leadership by President Obama. If this… Read More ›
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The Difference Between a Terrorist and a Freedom Fighter
Most of my readings and studies were through a Western perspective, due to the fact that I have spent around 10 years living and studying in America. Whenever literature confronts a topic on an internal, it either paints those… Read More ›
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What Is The First Step To Improve #Bahrain?
About a year ago, I wrote in my previous blog about an idea I long had which I believe would solve many of Bahrain’s problems. I was very creative, very imaginative, but very serious. I looked into the… Read More ›
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The Government Steals Money?
I recently sat down with a person who wants to know more about Bahrain and the region. A question he kept asking and I was comfortably answering with a bit of an embarrassment is, “How does the government pay… Read More ›
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Bahrain Universal Periodic Review Accepted by Human Rights Council
Information Affairs Authority, September 19th, 2012: Following Bahrain successfully accepting 145 of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) recommendations, and partially accepting 13, the Human Rights Council accepted Bahrain’s response in the session held in Geneva this morning…. Read More ›
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Is Life Fair?
Have you ever been to a very poor country? I recently have been to India for the first time in my life and saw firsthand what can easily be seen online, poor people, very poor people. More than that,… Read More ›
Dr. @saqeralkhalifa 