2002-02-15 04:00:00 PDT Cairo-- When does an emir get to become a king? When he says so. Yesterday, in the Persian Gulf emirate of Bahrain, Sheikh Hamad bin Isa al- Khalifa anointed himself with a ...

Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa solved this dilemma with a Rolls-Royce when he attended the coronation of King Charles III in May 2023.

"The ruler of Bahrain revoked my citizenship today without a court, any charges or clear evidence of why," United Kingdom-based Bahraini blogger and activist Ali Abdulemam wrote on Twitter.