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The Sakura (cherry-blossom) trees are in full bloom outside my window and in the rest of Tokyo. They have been for just about a week now. The image of the pinkish bloom reminds me of when I first arrived in Tokyo three years ago: I was looking out a taxi cab window headed towards my […]

في الذكرى الخامسة للحرب بالعراق اقدم قليلا من الصمت
On the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq, I offer a little bit of silence

The twenty three hours between Bahrain and my dorm room in Tokyo included being trapped between rather large people in Economy Class, terrible airline meals, and keeping my cool while being given the ’special’ treatment for having ‘middle eastern’ features. As soon as I got into my room, after getting a familiarly unwelcome greeting from […]

As I was walking around a messy part of town, dodging many boxes and ropes, A. says to me,
“Hasan, watch out for the nets. That’s how dolphins die.”

In an effort to find something meaningful to write about, I decided to jump into the pool this afternoon. The warm Bahraini sun gave me the impression that a swim was just what I needed to brighten up my day.
It didn’t take long for me to realize that it’s still too early for a […]

I just came back from the first event of the Spring of Culture here in Bahrain; the Armenian National Opera and Ballet Theatre was performing “Gayane” at the Culture Hall in Bahrain.
I actually felt different things while sitting in the Culture Hall in Manama. Exactly a year ago, the whole Majnoon Layla Controversy was ’staged’ […]