Category: Social
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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, I did get the sense that they were not heading the right direction. It didn’t…
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Global Competitiveness Report (#Bahrain 35 out of 144)
Please see page 100-101 for Bahrain’s section. Overall rank, 35 out of 144. WEF_GlobalCompetitivenessReport_2012-13 copy
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Define Democracy and My Twitter Bio
So Twitter asks us to write down something about ourselves, aka bio. Here’s what I wrote, “Opinionated, Educator, Job Creator, Democracy believer only with educated independent electorate, otherwise Autocratic persuader. Ph.D. in PoliSci.” Not a lot of people understood my bio, in fact, I think 99% of my Twitter followers are clueless. Inspired by…
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I Will Never Give Up!
Around four and a half years ago I was walking from my home to a nearby Mosque. The distance is about 400 meters and it usually takes me 4 minutes to reach. Mid way through my walk a person from distance emerged from an alley and waved his hand towards me, suggesting a hello gesture.…
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@SuhailAlgosaibi’s Dialogue Ghabga
The other day, I was invited to attend a Ghabga (Dinner in Ramadhan) hosted by The Bahrain Foundation for Reconciliation and Civil Discourse (BFRCD), which is founded by my friend Suhail Al Gosaibi. When I first received the invitation, I thought about what my answer should be. Should I attend or not? Obviously, there…
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Ramadhan is better than Democracy…
This is the second time in my life that I have witnessed Ramadhan during the summer times. While the Islamic calendar is around 10 to 14 days shorter than the Gregorian calendar, it loses about a year every 30 years. This means that the next time we will witness Ramadhan starting mid July…
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A Muslim or a Robot?
Last week I wrote a rather controversial article that perhaps many readers with only a fair political science background require more clarification to understand what I mean by what I wrote. I mentioned that, in general, I see Middle Easterners as more religiously cultured than Europe and America. I do not by any means meant…
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Who to blame on the Salmaniya Hospital Case?
We won’t be able to solve any problem, big or small, if we prevented honesty from overpowering all the biases we create. On Thursday, the famous case of placing doctors and medics on trial for their role in the chaos we all have witnessed in Salmaniya Medical Complex during February and March of 2011 issued…
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You’re More Islamic Than You Think
By Dr. Saqer Al Khalifa One thing the West does not, and perhaps will never, understand about the Middle East is how much Islam plays a role in societies’, as well as individuals’ lives. For the years that I have spent in America, I can see clearly that there are many Arabs and Muslims who…
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GCC Unity and Monopoly?
I know I mentioned last week that I will be unveiling, with sound evidence, the hidden agenda of a known Human Rights Organization. However, because of the latest developments, I will go back on my word and discuss the GCC unity today. As many of my readers are used to it, I will continue…
Dr. Saqer AlKhalifa 