Bahrain
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Interview with the Bahraini Dissident Nabeel Rajab
''Our regime has to leave''
The Formula One Grand Prix took place in Bahrain as planned despite a storm of criticism and days of demonstrations. Kersten Knipp spoke to human rights activist Nabil Rajab about the situation
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Interview with Ali al-Jallawi
''Bahrain Has No Future under This Government''
Bahraini writer poet and writer Ali al-Jallawi criticizes his country's government, which he blames for stoking inter-confessional conflict and suppressing the democracy movement
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Political Protests in Bahrain
The King's Revenge
Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa has so far dealt with the protest movement in the Gulf state with the utmost severity. Now the monarch is increasingly coming under pressure to introduce democratic reforms. By Birgit Svensson
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Interview with Lebanese Political Scientist Khattar Abou Diab
Vying for Supremacy in the Gulf
Relations between Iran and its Arab neighbours have reached an all time low following the military intervention by the Arab Gulf states in Bahrain. But, warns Lebanese political scientist Khattar Abou Diab, it is unlikely that tensions can be contained at the diplomatic level should any further escalation occur. He talks here to Tarek Anegay