Over the last few weeks, it seems that the Bahrain blogosphere has shrunken dramatically to a handful of ‘regular’ writers. Blogging is an activity that at times can be really time consuming, especially for Arab people, mainly because I think we like to write the perfect sentence (in either language Arabic or English). Also, I think that blogging shouldn’t be all that perfect anyways, as the main aim of blogging (from my point of view) is to send a message and a way to reach out, especially in our testing times.
Many, or actually everyone who reads and/or contributes to the Bahrain blogosphere are saddened and disappointed by the abrupt end to Mahmood’s Den, the biggest and most influential Bahrain blog, and Mahmood, the man who many could say singlehandedly created the Bahrain blogosphere and nurtured its growth like any one of his award winning garden’s plants… and aggregated it for the world to see and feel Bahrain.
Mahmood pushed the envelope and opened our eyes to Bahrain, the Middle East and the world around us, using such colourful vocabulary such as ‘brainfarts’, ‘Good News TM’ and ‘mtvSM‘ along the way. He was and will always be one to stand up for the right of freedom of speech and against sectarianism and hate speech, and we all should to, if we want to live in a better Bahrain.
Mahmood and his Tree of Life will leave behind a massive electronic archive of Bahrain’s modern history in both his Den and Bahraini.tv blogs which I’m sure will be googled and treasured as long as they are online.
From a personal point of view, I am still relatively new in the world of blogging and this blog isn’t exactly ground-breaking nor is it insightful by any means, but I think that we as Bahrain bloggers should make an effort in bringing out what Bahrain is really all about, the good, the bad and the ugly so to say.
So my friends please blog! Even if your opinion about something only covers a short paragraph! We really need to build up this community again and contribute to what we believe will make Bahrain a better place.
Thanks for reading this and looking forward to see what you guys think of this..
Respect!
Respect what?
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Nice post.
please tell me, how can anybody write, or feel inspired while living on a shoreless, tasteless island like this??
where even architecture is nothing but poorly looking blocks, surrounded by empty spaces of sand..
??!!