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A learning experience

June 18 - 24, 2008
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PEACE campaigning teenager Samar Jaffar has been scaling new heights in her determined bid to help bring young people together in a world of harmony and understanding.





Save our centre!

June 18 - 24, 2008
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A SUCCESFUL youth centre is appealing for more governmental funds for community groups as it struggles to make a difference and stay a focal point in its village.





High kicking keeps us fit!

June 18 - 24, 2008
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A novel way to stay fit has reached the shores of Bahrain and has the residents high-kicking to the beat of drums and tambourines.





Treasure trove of history

June 18 - 24, 2008
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Bahrain has from ancient times been a melting pot of cultures.





Museum director quits amid crisis

June 18 - 24, 2008
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ONE of Bahrain's major tourist attractions is facing a new crisis after the departure of its director who quit after a change at the top of the kingdom's cultural hierarchy.





Karan sets his mind on new challenges

June 18 - 24, 2008
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CELEBRATED memory wizard Karan Beri has just completed two workshops to help him develop his special skills and to prepare for the coming World Memory Championship.





Don't waste your summer holidays

June 18 - 24, 2008
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First of all, allow me to congratulate every student who has survived yet another academic year! It feels funny that it was exactly a year ago I was sitting on my laptop and writing to Gulf Weekly about my late mother's story.





Journey of love and literary discovery

June 18 - 24, 2008
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Deonna Kelli Sayed's life is a Pandora's box of unique experiences and a roller coaster ride that many of us see on the tube but never experience first hand.





Job protest pays off

June 18 - 24, 2008
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Protest power appears to have paid off for a Bahraini security officer after his pleas for a chance to propel his career prospects were finally heard.





Radio-jocks in spin over contest

June 18 - 24, 2008
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Do you have a golden voice that can mesmerise and charm radio listeners across Bahrain?





'I found power as a beautiful American-Muslim writer'

June 18 - 24, 2008
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Virginia Woolf said a woman needs a 'room of her own' if she is to write. For the women (and a few men) I've taught in my writing workshops, Bahrain is the perfect room to begin the writing journey.





It's the power of pink

June 18 - 24, 2008
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IT began the week our daughter, Catrin, was born. In a card, a friend with a daughter wrote menacingly, "Welcome to the world of pink..."