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City Centre Bahrain is celebrating the kingdom’s birthday with giant colourful art installations.
Four friends are uniting the kingdom’s creative minds under one roof this Saturday to share ideas as well as open intellectual and cultural discussions.
THE Dilmun Club Library has been at the centre of a gripping drama of its own this week after the librarians quit over plans to change the way the facility is operated.
Regular users of the facility found the library doors locked during normal opening hours on Friday and some received an email from the disenchanted women at the centre of the storm highlighting their grievances.
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Challenge Bahrain ended with a bang… more like a few bangs as fireworks lit up the sky and strobe lights sliced through the air in preparation for The Straits performance at the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir.
Bahrain rocks … official. And, just to prove it, the island played host to one of rock music’s leading guitarists at a series of events taking place around the kingdom.
The last time I stood a few metres away from guitar virtuoso Bumblefoot, I was being squashed against the front barrier by a tattooed behemoth at a Guns N’ Roses gig in Manchester a couple of years ago.
Thankfully, Ibrida in the Ramee Grand Hotel Seef proved to be a much more relaxed and accommodating venue for the fast-fingered axe-man, who wowed all in attendance by blasting out ferocious tunes and screaming guitar solos.
