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bint battuta in bahrain

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The anecdotes and musings of a translator living in Bahrain

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  • the minaret

    Posted on Sunday November 29th, 2009 at 16:34 in religion, architecture, history

    Whether or not minarets are actually used to call the faithful to prayer, they remain potent symbols of Islam, and have sometimes been targeted accordingly. [...] Such clashes between competing visual cultures are unfortunately not only recent news,...

  • unveiled

    Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 07:44 in religion, women, history, bahrain

    A popular opinion on the Arabian Peninsula is that the veil is something foreign – introduced to the Arabs by either the Persians or the Turks. Many men and women equally point out that in the time of the Prophet, that is when Islam was at its stro...

  • the great escape

    Posted on Thursday October 29th, 2009 at 06:17 in books, france

    I have dozens of unread books on my shelves, including some French books. But a couple of weeks ago I had the urge to read something different in French – I didn't know what – so I decided to make a visit to Family Bookshop, which stocks some Fre...

  • thus spake the profit

    Posted on Thursday October 29th, 2009 at 04:05 in teaching, humour

    Student, discussing the difference between conventional and Islamic credit cards: "With conventional cards, if you don't pay, interest increases."I heard, "If you don't pray."A certain logic there....

  • something wonderful, something stimulating, somethin\' stupid

    Posted on Tuesday October 20th, 2009 at 17:01 in books, music, italy, technology, france, Turkey, weather

    Something wonderful happened to me a few weeks ago: my laptop died. After my fears about losing work were assuaged (thank you, Farukh, for your professional services), I found that I felt liberated without a computer screen at home to distract me (I...

  • emirati wanderings and wonderings

    Posted on Sunday September 20th, 2009 at 08:05 in travel, politics, books, writing, economics, dubai, bahrain, abu dhabi

    I've just returned from three days spent visiting friends in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. My companions: a copy of Jonathan Raban's Arabia Through The Looking Glass, not read in many years, and a notebook.in passingJust after maghreb. On the bus out to the p...

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