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In 1983, the Bahrain Arts Society was founded when a group of 34 Bahraini artists approached the government and asked for a non-profit cultural organisation to be established. [2] The society hosted multiple exhibitions in and out of the country and offered training in the arts of sculpting, pottery , Arabic calligraphy , painting, interior ...
The literature of Bahrain has a strong tradition in the country. Most traditional writers and poets write in the classical Arabic style, contemporary poets that write in this style include Ali al-Sharqawi, Qassim Haddad, Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh, and Ahmad Muhammed Al Khalifa. [1]
Khaleeji is a style of Arab folk music from the Arabian Gulf area, played in Bahrain with polyrhythms. The style is strongly influenced by the music of Africa. The Bahraini pearl diving tradition is known for the songs called fidjeri. Fidjeri is a musical repertoire performed traditionally by male pearl divers of Bahrain. It involves singing ...
Bait Al-Jasra is a traditional-style house built in 1907 by Shaikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al-Khalifa and was later adopted as a summer home for Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa. [3] It is famous for being the birthplace of Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, the Emir of Bahrain until 1999, in 1933.
Awali was founded in the 1930s by the Bahrain Petroleum Company. It is the earliest example of an oil settlement in the Persian Gulf, with European-style urban planning that included public buildings, homes for an international and multicultural community of oil specialists and their families, as well as local population, and leisure spaces ...
Welcome to WikiProject Bahrain! This group was formed to better organize articles on Bahrain in a spirit of cooperation. This group includes all articles related to Bahrain within its scope, its cities, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on
In Bahrain, the early pioneers of sawt were Mohammed Faris and Dhabi bin Walid in the pre-World War II era. Both recorded their sawt music in HMV's studio in Baghdad in 1932. [2] Their recordings became widely popular in Bahrain and Kuwait. [2] The Bahraini sawt style became the predominant style of sawt in the Persian Gulf region. [2]
The national symbols of Bahrain are official and unofficial flags, ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...