My Beautiful Bahrain电子书

Cover

Front Matter

Title Page

Publisher Information

Foreword

The Bahrain Writers’ Circle

Epigraph

Glossary of Foreign Terms

My Beautiful Bahrain

Introduction

The Birth of a Pearl

A Backward Glance

Bahrain: Minarets and Palm Trees

The Journey Home

From Another Country

My Beautiful Bahrain, My Beautiful Anywhere

My Beautiful Bahrain

My Beautiful, Lovely, Exasperating, Expatriate Bahrain

The Lament of Gilgamesh

Dilmun

No Cup O’ Kindness

Window Shopping for Wheels

Which Ideal

Busy, Busy

Is This Happy?

Appurtenances

Home Thoughts at Home

Lotophagus Lepidopterus Simplus

The Fisher Folk

Serenity!

Indolence at 10am

Allegiance of the Fly

Lament of the Lotus Eaters

Land Of The Living

Snapshots From an Island

The Restaurant

The Artists

The Golf Course

High Society

A Night in Muharram

The Poet

The Youth

Images of My Beloved Bahrain

Bahrain - Architecture and Environs

Heritage Homes

Forts

Islands

Commercial Buildings

Manama High-Rise

Mosques

Architectural Vernacular

Archaeology and Architecture

Looking Ahead

New Beginnings

Bahrain – A Culinary Oasis

For the Locavore

For the Globavore

Pearls

East, West, North and South

The Little Pearl Merchant

This Land Is Mine

Visiting Old Bahrain

Museums

Preserving History

Treasured Souqs

The Baker of Manama

The Two Seas

Ali and the Hummer

Beautiful Bahrain

Protection

Bahrain is the Best

Hijab and Traditional Dress

Western Generalisation

Arab Generalisation

Culture or Religion?

Bokhara or Bust

Love’s Gift

Introduction to “Love’s Gift”

My Pearl

Hoora

The Embrace

The Village Clock, A’ali

The Mystery of Bahrain

Bahrain, a Mystery in Time

Bahrain, the Mystery in its Geography

The Mystery of Bahrain’s Religion

The Mystery of Bahraini Culture

The Final Word

The Arab Horse

My Bahrain My Home

Manama Suq - A Cultural Feast For The Senses

Historic Landmark

Vibrant Marketplace

Middle East Cuisine

Spiralling Minarets

The Rare Bird of Bahrain

Sailors Come, Sailors Go

How The Pearl Got Its Lustre

Growing Up in Bahrain

Strange Place

Saar Surrenders its Secrets

Breathing Lessons

Bahrain

A Newbie!

My Prince, My Princess

Pearl Epiphanies

The Epiphanies: what they are?

The Pearl of Great Price: the central message, being at the highest level.

Memories of My Life in Bahrain

Last Random Thoughts

End Matter

Biographies of Contributors

Aaron Maree

Ana Corradini Boreland

Anita Menon and Namit Bhatia

B.M.Engel

Bron Vanzino

Catherine Purchase

David Hollywood

Davonda St.Clair

Dilraz Kunnummal

Eva L Burns

Fahad Ali

Faridah Serajul Haq

Fatima Dincsoy

Hameed Al Qaed

Hasina Patel

Heera Nawaz

Jim Scalise

Joanne Jones

Kathleen Dodd

Kevin Howarth

Lillian Mills

Lorraine Charlesworth

Madhavi Tiwary

Maeve Kelynack Skinner

Mary Coons

Nadia Muijrers

Natasha Khan

Nawf T. Al-bassam

Omar Ahmed

Osama Arshad

Phari Poitier

Pooja Rajpal Kasala

Robin Barratt

Rohini Sunderam

S Krishna Kumar

Shauna Nearing Loej

Steve Royston

Zahra Zuhair

Ella Prakash - Artist

Acknowledgements and Sources