“This area, from Alhoora cemetery to Alhamra Cinema was totally empty!” - Haji Ma’atoq Abbas Alhaddad, From Alhoora Alhaddada "هذي الأرض من مقبرة الحورة إلى سينما الحمراء، كانت كلها فاضية!"…
“ The town, what I saw of it, looked wonderfully clean & tidy & rather like a big town in upper Egypt ” - Charles Belgrave, Diaries of Charles Belgrave…
“ Since the old Manama city was founded and till 1600 AD, the city was located on the northeastern coast on the modern city. And its borders on that time…