Hamad, a 25 year-old business studies graduate, is bitter about his lot as he searches for gainful employment a year after leaving college. It is difficult, he claims, for Shia such as himself to obtain comfortable government jobs, which tend to go to members of the minority, ruling, Sunnis.
When he does settle into a job, he believes he will take home about $1,000 a month, which is above the breadline but increasingly uncompetitive because of inflation, making saving to leave home or get married a hard task. “To be honest, I see my future outside of Bahrain,” he says.
