Abu Ali al-Hussain Ibn Abdallah Ibn Sina (980 - 1037), also known as Avicenna, a Persian physician and a disciple of Aristotle, connected th...

What to say except watch this You Tube video ...

This landed in my in-box today: Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society (BHRWS) launch: Bahraini Civil Network to Combat Violence Against Women...

Today, White Girl, Arab World is one year old (if you're European/Western) or two (if you're Arab), which makes Tuesday 24th Novembe...

The west gets it wrong again.  Image taken from: here Age Numbering System In the western world when you're born, you're aged ...

Safari safara to travel Hunting or scientific expedition, esp. in East Africa Safflower saffiore f...

Far sillier than it looks at first ...

Over the past couple of weeks a British expatriate mother, Rebecca Jones, has been interviewed by many of the Gulf-based English language ne...

So it's theory day today.  If you combine all the three Western cross-cultural experts together; Hall {see wgaw blog archive; Hall } Hof...

Welcome to Bahrain ...

Writing Laam The letter laam is one of the easiest Arabic letters to write as all four forms look very similar and there are very few chang...

Today's post doesn't really fit into the Arab cross cutlural slant of this particular blog, but it did arrive at my email: shirley a...

Classic stuff ...

We've seen these birds whilst we were crossing the Bahrain-Saudi causeway and did manage to film them, but this video's far better ....

Today's posting follows on from various wgaw blog archives {see wgaw blog archieves: loan words } and continues the list of English word...

Cooking rice seems to be an art form in the Arab world.  Rice is eaten everyday, it's cooked with care and attention and enjoyed in a w...