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and used to pay me more if they liked a piece he recalled today customers don t value the handiwork and ask me to reduce the price of jewellery mr al roomy who was trained in the silversmith craft by his father and uncle from the age of 15 described how he used to work 19 hour days to create the perfect handcrafted pieces it s the only profession i ever had he said i used to work from 4am until 11pm and only stopped for my lunch break but for the last 10 years i work for two hours a day because of my health age and mostly the number of customers which dropped dramatically he first came to bahrain as a 10 year old and described how he would sometimes spend days creating complicated pieces carving decorations such as palm trees and calligraphy onto silver jewellery to this day he continues to use the same tools he learnt to use as a teenager such as iron scissors and a hammer to create jewellery and ornaments such as dhows in the first years of opening the shop we carved jewellery with black silver which made us the first to come up with such jewellery at that time recalled mr al roomy i d carve palm trees and writings on rings some of which i still keep as memories he said taken from the gulf daily news posted by shirley sunman 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels business employment customs traditions new media np articles wednesday november 16 2011 attitudes to work sent from a saudi friend who thought it highly amusing to describe his work ethic thus japanese attitude for work if one can do it i can do it if no one can do it i must do it middle eastern attitude for work wal la hi if someone can do it let him do it if no one can do it ya habibi how can i do it posted by shirley sunman 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels business employment humour jokes funny stories saturday november 12 2011 qunicy jones makes arabic charity record with badr jafar rabat morocco cnn quincy jones has joined some of the biggest names in arab music to produce a charity single aimed at helping a new generation of artists and musicians artists involved include lebanese star majida el roumi who wrote the lyrics moroccan born grammy winning producer redone who co produced the track with jones kadim al sahir from iraq saber el rebai from tunisia amr diab from egypt and asma lmnawar from morocco jones who first toured the middle east and north africa in 1953 with the jazz musician lionel hampton said i have long been a vocal proponent of music and the arts being a great asset in building bridges between people and cultures the money raised will help finance educational arts and culture scholarships and projects for children in the middle east and north africa the arabic lyrics written by roumi are aimed to provide a beacon of solidarity and hope for the region the organizers said posted by shirley sunman no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels charity appeals music dance new media np articles saturday october 29 2011 think pink hog ride bahrain 2011 here s video footage of the think pink hog ride in bahrain last week uploaded here not only to promote the boys but because there s some decent footage of the roads and buildings here in bahrain well done and keep it up boys posted by shirley sunman no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels charity appeals health hobbies new media np articles transportation women sunday september 25 2011 saudi princess interview with piers morgan hh princess ameerah al taweel being interviewed on women s rights in saudi arabia by piers morgan on cnn posted by shirley sunman no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels business employment culture cross cultural communication laws politics transportation women tuesday july 5 2011 saudi weekend drivers when people tell me the driving on the m25 is terrible terrifying impossible i can t quite work out what they re worried about how about this pretty impressive by all accounts posted by shirley sunman 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels customs traditions hobbies transportation saturday may 14 2011 dance dabke image taken from flicker dabke also spelt dabka and dabkeh pronouced dab k mening stamping of the feet is the national dance of lebanon but also is popular in iraq palestine and syria it s a folk dance which is usually performed in lines photo taken from flickr here s the flash mob beirut airport version posted by shirley sunman 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels customs traditions music dance thursday april 28 2011 khobis flattened bread flat unleavened bread or khobiz khobis co bis is one of the masters or key staples of a gulf diet here s a youtube which explains how it s made and how to eat it posted by shirley sunman no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels business employment customs traditions food drink new media np articles monday april 25 2011 shisha sleep time to sleep posted by shirley sunman no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels customs traditions food drink hobbies old photographs traditional dress tuesday april 19 2011 islam from another perspective here s a pakistani praying outside the white house and the hastle he receives because of his choice of prayer ground key cross cultural point nothing you respect should be thrown to the ground it becomes dirty and indicates a lack of repsect for the item touching the ground hense the shoe throwing at president bush see wgaw president bush and shoe throwing being such an insult posted by shirley sunman 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels culture cross cultural communication new media np articles politics religion islam wednesday april 6 2011 making sense of bahrain a direct copy and paste suhail algosaibi writes below about trying to make sense of all the hate and the madness in bahrain following the crisis which took place in march i recently had dinner with a cnn crew who had just finished interviewing me and a few others about the so called arab spring and the role social media played in it they had been to tunisia and egypt before coming to bahrain and they told me how different bahrain was from those two countries they seemed genuinely confused i think this was the first conflict they covered where there was no obvious victim and no obvious villain they asked me lots and lots of questions during the dinner and i tried to answer as best i could and as fairly as i could since that dinner i ve been reflecting more on the recent crisis and was trying to make sense of some of the events and more importantly i was trying to understand all this hate that i keep seeing online some of which was aggressively directed at me from both sides the dictionary definition of polarisation i think bahrain s indomitable foreign minister sh khalid bin ahmed al khalifa described it best when he said people are polarised here s the dictionary definition of polarise from my mac verb divide or cause to divide into two sharply contrasting groups or sets of opinions or beliefs i like the two sharply contrasting bit basically it s either you re with me or against me there can be no in between if you re not fully on my side i will hate you slander you and personally attack you and if you re with me i ll love you support you and protect you rather sad don t you think honestly this is not the bahrain i know and grew up in though i don t condone the polarisation and extremism i try very hard to understand where it s coming from i try not to judge and not to force my opinions on others anyway today s post is about trying to understand and explain some of this polarisation and hate that we see today and as i ve said many times before i don t claim to fully know all the facts nor to understand this crisis 100 frankly i don t think anyone does where the protestors frustration anger hate is coming from there is a not insignificant shia section of society that rightly or wrongly feel marginalised in our society they feel victimised and have been feeling like this for a long time for generations they feel that they are not given their full rights as bahraini citizens not only that but they feel they are being intentionally marginalised also they feel discriminated against and disrespected by the interior ministry they feel their human rights are not met and they also feel like the government is trying to dilute their numbers through the sunnification of the population by giving sunni arabs and asians bahraini citizenship it is my belief that for a small portion of this section of society this perception has morphed into loathing and blind rage possibly caused encouraged fuelled endorsed by outside interference the object of this blind rage was the government and the ruling family who they perceive as being responsible for the supposed mess they are in and for these people the end justified the means and the means included exaggerating lying fabricating attacking and doing whatever else helped their cause and the rest of the population be damned they wanted nothing but the total removal of the current regime and some even wanted nothing but a royal blood bath but it is my contention that not all protestors wanted this and that not all protestors were rioters but admittedly the lines were vague who can untangle that web the hate of the extremists spilled over into hating all those who supported the government and did not see things from their perspective when the recent crackdown started they felt even more victimised and saw it as the government s excuse to commit further alleged crimes against them which of course lead to more hate and more polarisation they just could not comprehend how someone could not see things from their perspective where the pro government frustration anger hate is coming from i think the views of most sunnis wallahu a lam can be summarised as follows they also had some frustrations with the government but they don t believe in getting it through protests and blatant disrespect for the law i think most believed that a person s rights should be sought through the current system and not by replacing it completely arguably though they are not suffering as much as the people in the other camp when they look at their shia brethren they see that members of their society are among the wealthiest in the country and that they have reached the highest echelons in the government and the private sector they wonder why they feel victimised they also wonder why supposedly so many poor shia men marry several wives and have lots of children and then complain about their lot in life many sunnis are bewildered by what they perceive as the shia culture of victimhood many sunnis were afraid for their safety during the protests they seethed while they saw the rioters running amuck they hated their king and the ruling family being openly insulted like this they could not understand the perceived duality of the protesters peaceful yet violent the extreme sunnis hated the protestors and their leaders and that hate spilled over into hating virtually all shias and the fact that the opposition leaders did not condemn the violent acts nor try to rein them in only made matters worse they perceived them as ungrateful disloyal iran loving traitors who should be punished severely and they hated everyone who even showed a tiny shred of support or sympathy for them they genuinely could not understand how anyone could not see things from their perspective they hated the perceived arrogance of the opposition leaders and they couldn t wait for revenge and boy did they get it welcome to the mother of all crackdowns you know the story the government lost patience with the protestors rioters when they realised that this was more than just a peaceful request for reform and saw iran s fingerprints all over the movement they cracked down with all their might everyone and anyone who showed support for the protestors was a suspect and the spate of arrests started now the extreme sunnis rejoiced it was party time take that you evil traitors was the theme and that and that the conflict became personal with the rioters on one side and security forces and the army on the other while the protesters brazenly defied law and order attacked people fabricated attacks against themselves at the same time acted like victims the government forces seethed remember that several of the opposition leaders have received multiple royal pardons in the past the protestors won the first round but the second was won by the government forces by knock out some reportedly enjoyed releasing their frustrations at road check points meanwhile the moderates cried their voices were mostly unheard and they had hoped that this could be resolved peacefully they kept waiting for wise men to prevail and they still wait some personal reflections the other day an anti government acquaintance told me how he was mistreated by the security personnel at a checkpoint he said where did all this hate and rudeness come from i resisted the temptation of reminding him of the down with al khalifa placards at the pearl roundabout and the loathing that came from the rioters loathing begets loathing it should never have but the conflict became personal very personal my point is that crack downs by definition are brutal who s ever heard of a gentle crack down when national security is threatened security forces are not too concerned with constitutional rights especially with rioters who were this cunning let me give you an example a bahraini friend told me this story many years ago he was walking down a street in paris when suddenly a police van stopped next to him several policemen grabbed him violently and threw him into the van as i recall he was beaten and taken to the police station poor man was totally confused and wondering what was going on later he learnt that a moroccan looking man was suspected of planting a bomb in a metro station on the street he was walking along many hours later the police realised they had the wrong man and let him go without a even a hint of an apology i don t relay this story to justify anyone s behaviour but i do want to point out that when national security is threatened security forces see red there are more examples of this in the west most notably in the us after 9 11 where stories of constitutional human rights abuses are plentiful do shias have more loyalty to iran than to bahrain no absolutely not there are a few things i want to say about this first if you had asked me at the start of this crisis whether i thought iran was involved i would have laughed today i am convinced that iran is involved but...