Umm Al Hassam

Umm Al Hassam (Arabic: أم الحصم) (trans. Mother of Sea Shells) is a middle-class neighbourhood on the southern coast of Manama, which is the capital of Bahrain.[1] The neighborhood is home to the majority of Bahrain's local Jewish community.[2] It consists of a mixture of grand villas and newer apartment buildings, and is well known for its Lebanese and Indian restaurants.

Umm al Hassam
أم الحصم
Neighborhood
Etymology: Mother of Sea Shells
Umm al Hassam is located in Bahrain
Umm al Hassam
Umm al Hassam
Location in Bahrain
Umm al Hassam is located in Manama
Umm al Hassam
Umm al Hassam
Umm al Hassam (Manama)
Coordinates: 26°12′13″N 50°36′6″E
Country Bahrain
GovernorateCapital Governorate

Abdulaziz Shamlan, a Bahraini nationalist leader from the 1950s and later Bahrain's Ambassador in Cairo, is one of the area's most famous ex-residents, along with the late Yousuf Abdulrahman Engineer whose house symbolizes tradition. Umm Al Hassam maintains its leftist traditions with the large headquarters for the National Democratic Action situated there.[3]

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