The Ghoul of A’ali Burial Mounds: Bahraini Folktale
At the heart of Bahrain, where the land rises and falls in silent earthen waves, lie the ancient burial mounds of A’ali. Hundreds of them stretch across the plain like the backs of sleeping giants, built by hands long turned to dust. At dusk, when the sun sinks low and the sky glows copper and ash, the mounds cast