By Andrew Hammond MANAMA | Tue May 31, 2011 12:27pm EDT (Reuters) – As martial law comes to an end in the Gulf Arab state of Bahrain this week, opposition activists are wondering whether they threw away what might have been the […]
By Andrew Hammond MANAMA | Sun May 29, 2011 1:54pm EDT (Reuters) – The leader of Bahrain’s main Shi’ite opposition party said on Sunday his goal was to help bring political reform, rejecting accusations of taking orders from Iran or seeking to […]
I met AbdulLatif Al Mahmoud, the one-time opposition figure who emerged with the National Unity Rally after the protest movement was underway in Bahrain. The Rally was suddenly the government’s answer to the protest movement and the mass opposition movement Wefaq, which […]
The Big Speech was rather a non-event from the perspective of most people in the region, I reckon. Obama and his administration were behind the curve when the uprisings broke out. The uprisings were troubling for them because 1. (like the Iranian Revolution in 1979) […]
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ANALYSIS-Bahrain media play role in tension after protests – AlertNet. Tweet
By Andrew Hammond DUBAI | Thu May 5, 2011 2:18pm IST (Reuters) – Bahraini media have played a central role in a crackdown on Shi’ite Muslims following the suppression of pro-democracy protests that threatened the Sunni monarchy’s grip on power, analysts say. […]