Almost simultaneously, the year 2022 witnessed the dismissal of the President of the Authority for Culture and Antiquities in Bahrain, Sheikha Mai bint Mohammed Al Khalifa, on July 21, 2022, and the arrest and detention of prominent academic Dr. Nader Kadhim on July 20, 2022, for a week, followed by his termination from his position as a professor at the University of Bahrain.

Sheikh Khalifa bin Ahmed bin Abdullah Al Khalifa will not build his commercial complex on the land of Block 243 in Arad after he was forced to withdraw it under popular pressure, but instead he will now build the "Jewish Neighborhood" in the capital, Manama.