Category: bahrain
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How to Defeat Evil
Defeating evil is a nice dish to have. First of all, what you need is patience, a nice ear, a lot of oxygen, a creative mind, a reading eye, and a serious looking face. Keep the dish away from grins, puffs, irritation, and a short sighted mind. The personal ability to get out of arguments…
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It’s a Small Island After All!
Yes I always emphasize the significance of education, of knowledge, and of understanding to the various aspects of what makes a society seem the way it is. Bahrain, The Kingdom of Bahrain, is a small Island, but yet many around the world and internally fail big time to understand the domestic politics. The way I…
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Gulf Cup Success in Bahrain
Today is sadly the last day of 21st Gulf Cup tournament held here in Bahrain. Every couple of years this tournament is organized in a different GCC state plus Yemen and Iraq. A total of eight countries part of the Arabian peninsula compete in a much anticipated event, football, which is the most widespread sport…
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GCC Love, It’s Complicated!
This week was very hectic for me. Not physically, but the mental demand was massive. Back in the days when I was in the Army, I had enough time to do a lot. Somehow, I found time to do everything, including hours every day to keep up with preparing for my next set of lectures,…
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@NickKristof vs @IAA_Bahrain
Here’s the thing, I am friends with Nick Kristof and have been reading his articles for years before he became interested in Bahrain. I got to know Nick when I approached him to offer presenting Bahrain and the news floating around from my point of view. He accepted and we hung around in one of…
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Shady Foreign Policy Magazine
In most cases it would be a ‘D’, but nothing better than a ‘C’. This is the grade I give two articles written by David Kenner and another by Josh Rogin in ‘Foreign Policy.’ They both came to Bahrain to attend the 8th IISS Regional Security Summit (Manama Dialogue), which ran from 7 to 9…
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The Palestine vs Israel Solution
It may be politically suicidal sometimes to talk about the reality on ground when facing the infamous conflict in the holy lands. Almost everyone included, the Americans, the Europeans, and the Muslims have two conflicting opinions about this situation, a public and a private one. We all know what the public opinion is, a two…
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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 case, birth certificates state that the child is property of the Queen, and that people…
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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 so different from the place I have lived in forever. Bahrain, a small island, and…
Dr. Saqer AlKhalifa 