If you thought that Burj Dubai is the end of the “Arabian Dream”, you are mistaken.

The new race in the Arab World (to be particular, the Gulf region) is building the highest towers.

Few years ago, Dubai announced that they are going to spend few “Billions” of Dollars to build the highest tower in the world, [...]

I admit I have missed the news when it was announced end of last July, but better late than never.

Honored to be Bahraini by soul for living in Bahrain for the last four years, I am very happy to know that Wafaa Ganahi, a 23-year-old teacher from the Law Faculty of Bahrain University, won the [...]

Following is a letter from a Bahraini friend working with a NGO providing emergency relief to newly displaced refugees from the Nahr el Bared refugee camp in the North of Lebanon:

Dear friends,

Hope this email finds you safe and well.

From the Shatila (Palestinian) refugee camp in Beirut, I am working at an NGO called the Children [...]

In the fifth annual Reporters Without Borders Worldwide Press Freedom Index, in between 168 indexed countries, our beloved Arab countries makes sure to be among the worst.

Here is the list in order from “best” to “worst”:

Kuwait - 73
United Arab Emirates - 77
Mauritania - 77
Qatar - 80
Morocco - 97
Lebanon - 107
Jordan - 109
Bahrain - 111
Algeria - [...]

Update Nov 2nd: Mahmood’s Blog is back!

It’s official, Mahmood’s Blog (http://mahmood.tv) will be blocked effective immediately, by the orders of the Bahraini Ministry of Information.

Together with 6 other web sites (listed below), the official memo was delivered to all the ISP’s in Bahrain this afternoon.

Mahmood is a prominent Bahraini/Arab blogger. His blog is the most [...]

Bahraini citizens protest against Israel’s war crimes in Lebanon.

Bahrain has been one of the loudest Arab countries to speak out against the war and that’s something to take pride in. This is one of the biggest protests in the Gulf since the war began, Esra’a said.

Not only they don’t want to help in putting an end to the barbaric terrorist Israeli war on Lebanese… not only they provide a passage for the smart (doubtful) bombs to reach the Israel Terrorist State… but they want us to keep our mouth shut and not to show the world the atrocities committed by [...]

Yesterday, Bahraini families toke their children to protest the terrorist war on Lebanon and the coward massacre by the Israeli terrorist army in Qana.

The Bahraini children made their voice heard and did most of the talking during the protest.

God bless you, kids of Bahrain. You are braver than most of our official who didn’t even [...]

From last night event at National Democratic Action Society - Bahrain (in Arabic). [Hat tip: ES]

The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Arabic-language blogs. It was initially published at Global Voices…

The Blazing Middle East

Third day after the beginning of the never ending Middle East conflict; Israel/Lebanon war, the Arabic blogsphere speaks.

Ranging between anger, celebration, condemnation and support, on both sides of the conflict, the bloggers views vary [...]