Bahraini Left-Wing Activists - Majeed Marhoon, Munira Fakhro, Ali Rabea, Layla Fakhro, Abdulhadi Khalaf, Ahmad Al-Thawadi (Paperback)

Chapters: Majeed Marhoon, Munira Fakhro, Ali Rabea, Layla Fakhro, Abdulhadi Khalaf, Ahmad Al-Thawadi. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Majeed Marhoon (Arabic: ) (1945 - 2010) was a Bahrani saxophonist, and a former Leftist political activist with the National Liberation Front of Bahrain. He spent 22 years in prison in Bahrain between 1968 and 1990, accused of planting a bomb in the car of an Arab intelligence officer of March 21, 1966. Seventeen of his years in captivity were spent at the Jidda Island prison, four of those years in solitary confinement. He claims to have been tortured in prison under the orders of British officer Ian Henderson. BAHRAIN'S MANDELA PASSION, NOSTALGIA AND REVOLUTION FROM THE ISLAND OF DREAMS At the Addaama neighborhood in Hoora Bahrain, the neighborhood of the simple and the deprived, Majeed Marhoon was born on the hot afternoon of August 17, 1945. Majeed says that his birth was one week after the second bombing of Japan by the American forces and the heat that day was extreme due to the spreading of atomic dust in the ozone layer. Majeed faced the bitterness of life and poverty by excelling in school," I was one of the best students in the school despite the hardships of living, at times we used to go to bed with empty stomachs. In 1953, I was transferred to Gudaibiya elementary school before it was fully constructed. In that school I noticed the social differences between classes and I used to isolate myself trying to think and find reasons, but of no use, because the issue was bigger than my mind could handle. "Says Majeed. In the academic year 1956, Majeed was asked by his arts and sports teacher, Mr. Salman Majid Al-Dallaal, to compose the music for a monologue of a school play. This was the first of Majeed's...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1624401