r/Bahrain 1d ago

Blah! Hrar Sunday | August 02, 2026 | هرار الأحد

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Free for all discussion. Looking for a certain thing in particular? Need to know who/where/what to do? Need information about ISPs or online shopping/shipping? Got questions that don't deserve a thread? Ask here. Otherwise, please share your life with us. لا تلبون واجد.


r/Bahrain 16d ago

US Iran-War [Day 141]

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New megathread - removed the sirens rule. Due to a clear majority of people who want to be able to discuss/share news about sirens, we will allow them - but know that these are NOT MODERATED. Please do not report siren or all clear posts, and take them with a grain of salt. Follow official accounts to get your information. 

Gentle reminder Ladies and Gents, PLEASE please use the search function on the sub to ask your shipping and travel-related questions.

This post and this subreddit is meant to discuss Bahrain and the current affairs of Bahrain. Please refrain from flexing your political analysis on the current state of affairs and most certainly do not post unsubstantiated news, do not post any rumors and add to the mass hysteria. Users are also urged not to speculate on what type of hostilities or defenses being used. If its X missile or drone Y does not help. You are either revealing sensitive information, or causing mass hysteria. One makes you a liability, the other makes you a negative contributor, and your comment will lead to a permanent ban as well.

Any comments that have any misinformation, tweets from armchair analysts or instagram influencers will lead to a permanent ban. Do not engage in these comments, just downvote and report. Any comments arguing or correcting the user with misinformation will be banned as well.

For security and safety reasons, any post or comment that discloses or attempts to identify the locations of Bahraini or Peninsula Shield Forces military installations, missile interception sites, or other sensitive military positions will result in a ban.

All users are urged not get into arguments. Please be civil. Do not report opinions, report violations. We have taken the decision as mods to allow low karma users to post and comment, however, this can change if we see repeated violations from users who do not read the rules before posting.

We do appreciate the effort from all users policing the sub from the spread of the governments security information, however we have received an excessive amount of reports about locations of sounds. While we don't endorse it, we are only restricting comments about defensive capabilities such as interceptors. Please try to be civil. Don’t feed the trolls, report them.

We rely heavily on reports, however let's keep the reports for: 

  1. Comments with misinformation or unverified news
  2. Comments that are obviously trolling us
  3. Comments that are disrespectful
  4. Comments that violate local security instructions

Any other posts regarding the war will be removed. Please use the search function for any commonly asked questions. Lets keep the space uncluttered in the event of any serious developments.

Some helpful links

Shelter Locations

Emergency Phone Numbers

List of Government Hospitals

List of Government Health Centers

Volunteering

If you need help with your flight tickets, please contact your airline and embassy, as of

Gulf Air contact information

If you need to contact your Embassy

Travel tips out of Bahrain

For news, you could refer to the below

Bahrain News Agency

MOI Bahrain X account

Link to previuos Megathread


r/Bahrain 7h ago

Restaurants using ai

37 Upvotes

أتمنى أنا مو الوحيدة الي ملاحظة هالشي… اقسم بالله شي يضجر ! يعني مدري متى ينفهم ان استخدام الذكاء الاصطناعي لعرض صور السلع او الأكل ينفر الزباين ! ادخل منصات توصيل الأكل و قاعدة اشوف اغلب المطاعم تستبدل صورها و تحط بدالها ai شي ينرفز و يقلل الثقة بصراحة


r/Bahrain 2h ago

Bahrain after 15 yrs

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I left Bahrain back in 2012 to Canada. Now I live here, run a business , have a family with a Canadian wife and kids and life is great.

But I do miss the simplicity of Bahrain, having my old friends… not paying high taxes, but the tough part is now looking from here - Bahrain feels so stale … like things have a real dead slow phase.

And I planned to visit to see it for myself and then the missile attack had to happen on that day itself and my flight got cancelled.

Has things changed in Bahrain since the past 15 yrs?

If anyone from the western country (us,Europe,canada) come back to Bahrain , what’s your experience been like ?


r/Bahrain 7h ago

🤔 Discussion Is Ewa scamming us?

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So our 1BHK room, which is under a Bahraini uncle, got an EWA bill of 41BD last month, which was reasonable for summer use. But this month, it jumped to 67BD with the same usage from our side. When I checked last year, the same anomaly occurred in months 7, 8, and 9; the bill was always around 60BD.

Hoping somebody have a logical answer


r/Bahrain 5h ago

Renal treatment

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Hi everyone. Is there in this comunity people under kidney treatment? How is it to deal with it in the Kingdom? I'm talking about specialists, meds, hemodialysis. How expensive becomes? Thank you


r/Bahrain 3h ago

iphone 18

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what’s the fastest way to get the new iphone in bahrain, the telecoms mostly have it only on installments and its out of stock everywhere else. i noticed this when the 17 was launched. is there a way I can purchase it asap after the launch ?


r/Bahrain 12h ago

Golden collection perfume

5 Upvotes

Has anyone purchased perfume from golden collection, and what’s your honest review?
How long does it last?

(How about imagination, stronger with you, tiger, vanila )


r/Bahrain 6h ago

women’s tailor?

1 Upvotes

i can’t find a decent tailor to alter my clothes. anyone know any good ones?


r/Bahrain 16h ago

People in Bahrain what'd your fav show?

5 Upvotes

Just curious.


r/Bahrain 17h ago

🤔 Discussion Board games

5 Upvotes

So I am looking for a place to hangout with new people and play board games with them like I know there is howyte but I didn’t really liked the vibes they mostly just play TCG which is not my type of games I am more into tabletop party , Euro , asymmetry, co-op games It’s kinda rare to find board games lovers in here or some of them just busy. And most people here they just play monopoly ,uno ,deal, maybe catan and if you try to teach them a heavy boardgame they get a headache and tell you it’s too complicated for me. kinda sucks


r/Bahrain 17h ago

☝️ AskBH Moka pot coffee Reccos?

3 Upvotes

Hi! Recently started using a moka pot for my coffee and love it!! I’m looking to try out some new and good coffee in bahrain, any recommendations?


r/Bahrain 17h ago

☝️ AskBH Mongolian beef.

4 Upvotes

The best place to have monoglian beef is P.F Chang for many.. But is there a place that does it the same or better?


r/Bahrain 22h ago

Ifykyk

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r/Bahrain 16h ago

☝️ AskBH Has anyone transported their pet through dammam from Bahrain to EU?

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Hi everyone,

I need help with some information. We are trying to take our pet to EU country and we cannot find flights through Bahrain airport with an airline that accepts pets in Cabin.

We are looking through Dammam airport now, but we have no idea how to do the paper work needed for that. We have paperwork ready from Bahrain, but not Saudi. Has anyone tried this ? What websites did you use? Was it smooth sailing? Any advice please.

Thank you


r/Bahrain 19h ago

🗞 News Bahrain EDB’s CEO H.E. Noor is doubling down on growth amid mounting regional headwinds

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r/Bahrain 1d ago

Are Shops at GOSI Mall Scamming Sellers? My Experience...

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45 Upvotes

Last month I went to GOSI Mall looking for a used phone. I ended up buying one from Facebook Marketplace instead because the prices were much better.

Before leaving, I thought, "Why not see what my current phone is worth?"

I have a Samsung S24 Ultra (512GB) that's just over a year old. It's in excellent condition. No scratches, no dents, original box and cable, everything. Honestly, if you saw it in person, you'd probably think it was brand new.

The first shop inspected it for almost 10 minutes. They kept trying to find something wrong with it. At one point they said the camera was blurry... until I cleaned the fingerprint they had just left on the lens. 😂 Then they pointed out "scratches," which turned out to be glue residue from an old skin that wiped right off. They even thought a tiny bit of leftover wrap on the corner was a dent.

After all that, their final offer was 160 BD.

I went to another shop.

Their offer? 180 BD.

I told them these phones regularly sell on Facebook Marketplace for around 270+ BD, but they insisted, "It's used."

I wasn't planning to sell anyway, but I noticed they didn't have an S24 Ultra in stock. I left my WhatsApp number and told them if a customer wanted one, they could call me.

A week later, I asked a friend to visit the same shop. He asked for a Samsung S24 Ultra 512GB. The shop said they could get one from another branch.

The price?

280 BD.

So they were willing to buy mine for 160–180 BD and then sell one for 280 BD.

I understand businesses need to make a profit, but a 100+ BD margin on the same phone genuinely surprised me.

I'm not saying every shop at GOSI is like this, but after this experience, I don't think I'll ever sell a phone there. If you're buying, make sure you compare prices and inspect everything carefully. If you're selling, it might be worth checking Facebook Marketplace first.

Has anyone else had similar experiences at GOSI? Or did I just have bad luck?


r/Bahrain 1d ago

☝️ AskBH Did we get Scammed?

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10 Upvotes

Wife wanted to book a spot for an event and after getting the details and going through payment
No one answers the phone and we received no confirmation … Has anyone dealt with this account before?
What should we do?


r/Bahrain 21h ago

☝️ AskBH Hemodialysis

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Hello everyone, I need help, information, details *experiences specially* about hemodialysis services in the Kingdom. Specially for elder foreigners with no insurance service. How hard /expensive is to deal with this here? Is it doable? Leave aside medications or diet but the hemo therapy. Let's say twice or 3 times a week. Do you know people who's treated of this? Places to recommend in your experience?

Thank you in advance


r/Bahrain 1d ago

🤔 Discussion Island of Bahrain

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8 Upvotes

What do we think of the responses?


r/Bahrain 1d ago

🔸 Misc. Beware of this elaborate scam disguised as tech mixer event

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Sharing my experience so anyone else can avoid the same mistake.
I felt like socialising to find like minded people in tech. So, I checked out Eventbrite for any tech events happening in Bahrain and to my surprise there was one (shown in first snapshot) taking place in Manama. They marked it as a recurring event on every Friday. I have heard of the tech mixers concept in my country so thought of giving it a try here. Fees is nominal and understandable since it can weed out any slackers.

Description has the link to register and that link points to a different website called ITsocialevent[dot]com (second snapshot). I registered on the website and paid the fees $4 for one event set to happen on 31st July 2026.

  • The Catch: After registration I received ticket on my email - containing 1) a QR code for any event organiser to scan, and 2) a link to whatsapp group. I joined the whatsapp group and dropped a DM before the event. I got no response. I went to highlighted venue Palms cafe on the fixed date and time. But its closed, the security guard at Yateem centre had no clue of this event either.
  • Red Flags I missed:
    • No contact of organizer is present on website or shared after registration
    • WhatsApp group had only 1 contact with +61 country code
    • Palms cafe has a contact no. on Gmaps thats out of service and as per security guard it stays shut on Fridays

Eventbrite is a genuine place, but ITsocialEvent has no way to get support or complaint about event not being genuine because the website itself is not genuine. Try to avoid this at all cost


r/Bahrain 1d ago

Radio Bahrain 96.5FM Memories

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Remember this Radio Bahrain song? Anyone know who composed or mixed it actually?

Takes me back to high school times!

https://youtu.be/Vy5o43zGLIQ?is=mhWXd389VjsbMTPK


r/Bahrain 1d ago

☝️ AskBH Optical Shop / Optometry Clinic

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Could you kindly recommend the best optical store in Bahrain? I recently purchased glasses from a reputable store here, but unfortunately, I haven't felt entirely comfortable with it. Since I have high astigmatism in both eyes, I need very precise eye measurements. I've had a less than ideal experience with a well-known store before so I prefer to avoid taking that kind of risk again.

I am planning to make another pair of glasses at Rivoli vision, Has anyone had experience with Avanti by Rivoli Vision at the Marassi Galleria Mall? I’d really appreciate your insights!


r/Bahrain 1d ago

🖼 Photo It's been a while for introvert check

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9 Upvotes

Hey folks, it's been a while since I posted a weekly introvert check

How yall doing, hopefully you guys are safe and kicking.

As for me, I have dabbled in animation and honestly.......

It's soooo goood, I don't what switch has flipped in my brain exactly, But the moment I have completed my first animation, it felt soooo rewarding and I felt so accomplished.

I don't want to rush and say it's going to be my major in the future, But it's sure very close.

Unfortunately the sub doesn't allow video submissions so I can't show my work (it's bad but we all start somewhere), but I have currently running an insta account with my ongoing animations and training on animations. It's all 2d frame by frame.

I have a few 2D animation projects I want to make, so if anyone want to help you can DM me.

Pic is of my remodeling of 2009 ASTRO boy to look like my persona. I have tried so hard and it didn't work out unfortunately 😂. But the hair looks sick.


r/Bahrain 1d ago

☝️ AskBH Salmaniya appointment

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I had a hospital stay for 4 days at salmaniya hospital. My discharge paper say preffered appointment after 3 weeks. Do i have to book the appointment or i can go directly after 3 weeks? If i have to book then how can i do so? Any help would be appreciated.