Mahmood's Den

Peace through Media Award

Mahmood Al-Yousif — Sat, 19 May 2012 08:45:40 +0000

A well deserved award for Dr Mansoor Al-Jamri and his paper. Al-Wasat has proven itself the only independent newspaper in Bahrain if not the Gulf and beyond. While I have become more skeptical of late, I tend to give news articles much more credence than any of the other papers in Bahrain and its columns, [...]

HELP! Creating a Diabetes Awareness Campaign

Mahmood Al-Yousif — Thu, 17 May 2012 06:50:03 +0000

The Rotary Club of Salmaniya are creating a campaign for diabetes awareness. Part of this campaign will be in the form of video testimonials of people who have been affected by diabetes, both directly or indirectly and how diabetes has impacted their lives. Gulf Broadcast will be producing these videos.We need real people to give personal testimonials about [...]

Oh the hard life!

Mahmood Al-Yousif — Tue, 08 May 2012 05:29:58 +0000

This is just too cute not to share here. This is George, tired again after just waking up this morning! Have a great, energy filled morning my friends

Unneeded Escalation

Mahmood Al-Yousif — Sat, 05 May 2012 09:34:51 +0000

I don’t write as often here not because the absence of rich material to blog about, but after so many years of doing so, I feel that I’m now seriously in a “broken record” mode. I feel that I’ve written about so many similar situations over the past ten years and have given the same [...]

Hearing the furious beating of the wings of Capital

Mahmood Al-Yousif — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 06:17:13 +0000

Another day, another mindless attack on businesses in Bahrain, this time in Jiddhaffs. I don’t give a damn what religion, sect, colour or sexual orientation of the criminals who’ve done this and other crimes against businesses. What I do care about is that this, much more than demonstrations and, dare I say it, burning tyres, [...]

Why do most armed robberies happen in Riffa?

Mahmood Al-Yousif — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:28:21 +0000

Riffa is the seat of power. It is the chosen home of the monarchy. It is one of those areas reserved for the chosen ones and part of the population are barred ownership for some unknown reason. One would be forgiven to think that it should be safe, don’t you think? But no. Most, if [...]

Oy! Yates! Still feel safe here?

Mahmood Al-Yousif — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:06:35 +0000

He might. I and hundreds of thousands of Bahrainis certainly feel anything but. And no, this is not a feeling that actually is due to the following video, in which police are seen aiding, abetting and participating in the wanton destruction, thieving and ransacking of a Bahraini business. We’ve actually felt that for quite some [...]

Hmmm… I smell even worse civil strife coming up!

Mahmood Al-Yousif — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:16:55 +0000

I’m just disenchanted with the whole stupid situation in this country. I’m not that interested in the internal politics any more because the version of politics we currently have is built on a win-lose strategy rather than exercising the art of mediation and arriving at a common ground to resolve this country’s problems. What we [...]

Practical Marketing Lessons

Mahmood Al-Yousif — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:09:54 +0000

Lessons in practical marketing: on the left are warm colours, bright but warn environment, hi end tv running a high end looping advert, ‘welcome’ used at the ticket machine, services clearly shown with simple icons and a nice well maintained plant inside and a quick service machine outside. On the right, dark, dingy and old. [...]

Moscow, I love you!

Mahmood Al-Yousif — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 14:25:30 +0000

We‘re in Moscow at the moment on a production job. We made our way to Red Square and spent most of the day there. It is astounding to say the very least. Really enjoyed it, and we’re going back again tonight and probably tomorrow to get some pick-ups. Let me share some of that with [...]