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Lifestyle6 July 20261 min read

The Islands Were Always the Attraction

We spent twenty years building indoors and calling the coast a constraint.

Layla Al-Saffar

Published 6 July 2026, 13:11 · Updated 6:30

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The Islands Were Always the Attraction

We spent twenty years building indoors and calling the coast a constraint.

Reporting for this story was carried out in Manama over the past week. Officials spoke on the record unless otherwise noted.

This article will be updated as further detail is confirmed.

Layla Al-Saffar

I write about education and young Bahrainis.

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