A new family law for Sunnis, which protects the rights of women in Shariah (Islamic) law courts, was approved by Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, on May 27. Women’s activists have pledged to continue their fight for a just law for the Gulf Arab kingdom’s Shiites. The law-making lower and upper houses had [...]
Manama, Bahrain (AHN) – Months of sectarian violence in Bahrain came to an end Thursday with top Shia scholars calling on their supporters to maintain peace and refrain from participating in illegal gatherings. The past month has witnessed violent illegal gatherings in several parts of the country regarding sectarianism. But the fuel to the fire [...]
A Bahraini woman undergoing a sex change operation is going to court in a bid to legally recognise her new status as a man. Lawyer Fowzia Mohammed Janahi, who is acting for the 30-year-old, says her client was born without all the female organs and in her mind believes she is a man. The woman, [...]
«Øــق» ليســت متشــددة قلالي – Ùهيم عبدالله يمثل وضعا غريبا بالنسبة إليه كرجل دين سني، إذ كان على رأس مجموعة معارضة جريئة إبان أيام أمن الدولة. .. وكان ضمن مجموعة مهندسي العرائض التاريخية بدءاً من العريضة النخبوية ÙÙŠ مطلع التسعينات والعريضة الشعبية بعدها بسنين، ومن ثم العريضة الأممية التي تجمع توقيعاتها Øركة «Øق» ÙÙŠ هذه [...]
One of the unintended consequences of the Iraq war has been the sharpening of Shiite-Sunni tensions across the region. Sectarian violence is alarmingly on the rise in Iraq, where prior to the U.S.-led invasion, citizens rarely made distinctions among themselves based on their subtle differences in faith. Iraqis are fleeing once religiously mixed neighborhoods as [...]
A Bahrain women’s delegation visited Britain’s Parliament as part of a campaign to press for a family law to be passed in Bahrain. Several members of the Council of Lords have expressed their solidarity with our cause and pledged to back us, said women petition chairperson Ghada Jamsheer. A memo detailing alleged injustices inflicted on [...]
A proposal to introduce cutting off the hands of thieves in the new penal code was rejected by parliament yesterday. However, chairman Khalifa Al Dhahrani told MP Ali Mattar, who made the proposal, that he could re-draft it as a separate draft law and parliament would look at it again. Mr Al Dhahrani said the [...]
A devotional music concert, Golden Classics, will be held tonight at the National Evangelical Church, Manama. YMCA International – Bahrain Chapter is hosting the event as part of its spiritual awareness activities. The show will feature a number of all-time favourite classics of Christian devotional music, performed in its original classical form as composed by [...]
Islamic scholars are urging careful handling of the Holy Quran and other Islamic literature, along with mutual respect and understanding, to promote inter-religious harmony. The advice follows an incident in which a European man was dismissed by his Bahraini employer after allegedly throwing a copy of translations from the Quran into a waste bin. They [...]
A custody battle over a Bahraini toddler was once again adjourned at the Sharia Court yesterday, two years after the first case was filed in Kuwait. The absence of the Sharia Court judge, who has been presiding over the case in Bahrain, yesterday led to another judge adjourning the hearing to May 13. Filipina Lecita [...]
