In recent years the changes have been phenomenal- very open to realizing their mistakes and changing direction. The most vocal elements tend to focus on the personalities and the historical status of the Khalifa family. they come originally from Saudi MORE >>

Climate Energy Bahrain Gulf region Iran Iraq Kuwait oil Oman pollution Qatar resource curse Saudi Arabia the United Arab EmiratesExtremely valuable oil and parched dry sand is proving to be a lethal combination for the Gulf region, according to a Canadian report out of the University of Toronto. There are lots of things that are going wrong. MORE >>

Although Ramadan is now officially over, Bahrain’s Information Affairs Agency (IAA) raised $4 million for famine-struck Somalis in keeping with their “religious, moral, and patriotic duty.&#. The Horn of Africa famine has already claimed 29,000 children under the age of five and shows no signs of abating. Brothers and sisters. MORE >>

A new pavilion by A-Bureau takes back an area of downtown Bahrain overrun by traffic – even if only temporarily. Right in the midst of the worst government crackdowns in Bahrain last year, we interviewed Camille Zakharia – a talented photographer whose work has been shown all over the world. MORE >>

The howls of outrage from the White House and No 10 about the shootings on Thursday, the suppression of protests on Friday, the arrival of Saudi troops in Bahrain on Monday? Did you hear it? The clamour from western governments for democracy in Saudi Arabia ? Nor did I. If so, on what grounds? At least in Libya, for all MORE >>