Umm Al Hassam (Arabic: أم الحصم) (trans.
Mother of Sea Shells) is a middle-class neighbourhood on the southern coast of Manama, 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.
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.