Over the last week at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, I've heard Bahrain described several times as an apartheid state. It's not a new comparison. A few days after the mass protests for democracy broke out in February 2011, New York Times columnist Nick Kristof wrote a piece from the tiny kingdom titled Is This Apartheid in Bahrain? It's an obvious analogy: there is a minority (mostly Sunni) elite ruling over a (mostly Shia) majority. The Read more [...]

Manama, Mar18(BNA) The curtain will fall tomorrow (March19) on the eighth edition of the Bahrain e-Government International Forum, being held at Isa Cultural Centre and Bahrain International Circuit (BIC). The event opened on March 15 under the patronage of Deputy Prime Minister, Head of the High IT and Telecommunications Committee Shaikh Mohammed bin Mubarak Al-Khalifa. The five-day event featured a string Read more [...]

Manama, Mar. 18. (BNA) -- President of the University of Bahrain (UoB) Dr. Ebrahim Mohammed Janahi has welcomed the scientific cooperation with prestigious universities. He said such cooperation gives academics and students the opportunity of exchange experience, develop their knowledge, and promote scientific research. Dr. Janahi received here today a delegation from the British University of Salford, headed Read more [...]