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Bahrain's small size and central location among Persian Gulf countries require it to play a delicate balancing act in foreign affairs among its larger neighbors. Facing declining oil reserves, Bahrain has turned to petroleum processing and refining a... [read more]
Bahrain's small size and central location among Persian Gulf countries require it to play a delicate balancing act in foreign affairs among its larger neighbors. Facing declining oil reserves, Bahrain has turned to petroleum processing and refining a... [read more] Blog: Manama, Bahrain - The Smallest of the Gulf States
Date: December 27th 2009
Bahrain, the smallest of the Gulf States, is not much bigger than the Isle of Man, and like a lot of countries in the Gulf, oil has made this tiny island nation a rich country. Our Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Bahrain only lasted thirty minutes but was the emptiest airliner Angela and I had ever flown on. Almost every seat was deserted. I counted nineteen people on an aircraft with a capacity ... read more
Date: December 27th 2009
Bahrain, the smallest of the Gulf States, is not much bigger than the Isle of Man, and like a lot of countries in the Gulf, oil has made this tiny island nation a rich country. Our Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Bahrain only lasted thirty minutes but was the emptiest airliner Angela and I had ever flown on. Almost every seat was deserted. I counted nineteen people on an aircraft with a capacity ... read more
