Kids in Iraq love Pikachu and now Bahrain is working on starting its own anime con. I actually heard about this a couple of weeks ago and fired off an e-mail with some questions for Hind (the person trying to get this thing going) to see if I could get some more information, but I haven’t heard back.
But I still think it’s a really awesome idea, so I’m spreading it! Hey, Google says I have some visitors from the middle east, even some in Bahrain. So if you’re one of them: join the site’s member list and find out what you can do to help out.