Abdulrahman al-Nuaimi (1943/1944 – September 1, 2011) was a Bahraini politician and opposition leader. Al-Nuaimi, who spent more than thirty years in self-imposed exile from Bahrain, founded some of the country's most important political opposition groups.[1]
Biography
editHe was born in 1944 on Muharraq island to the Sunni Al Nuaim family that has close ties to the traditional ruling circles.[2] In the 1960s, he became increasingly politically active and joined the Arab Nationalist Movement. In 1966, he graduated from the American University of Beirut with a degree in mechanical engineering.[2]
After a crackdown on the workers' movements at the power station where he was working in 1968, he left Bahrain to live in exile, spending 33 years in Damascus.[2] He founded the Popular Front for the Liberation of Bahrain (PFLB), a resistance group, during the 1970s.[1] The groups was inspired by the Arab Nationalist Movement which was sweeping though the Arab World at the time.[1] In 2001, al-Nuaimi returned to Bahrain from exile and re-entered politics.[1] He founded the National Democratic Action Society (NDA, also known as the Wa'ad party), Bahrain's largest leftist political party, with members of the former PFLB.[1] Al-Nuaimi ran for a seat in the Council of Representatives of Bahrain during the 2006 parliamentary election, but lost to a pro-government candidate by a small margin.[1]
Abdulrahman al-Nuaimi suffered from deteriorating health in the mid-2000s. He fell into a coma in April 2007.[1] He was succeeded as head of the National Democratic Action Society by Ibrahim Sharif.[1] Al-Nuaimi remained in a coma until his death on September 1, 2011, aged 67.[1]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Bahrain opposition figure al-Nuaimi dies". Forbes Magazine. Associated Press. 2011-09-01. Retrieved 2011-09-04.[dead link]
- ^ a b c Beaugrand, Claire (20 September 2011). "Abd al-Rahman Al-Nu'aimi: Forty Years of Bahraini Opposition". openDemocracy.net. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
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