Saeed al-Shehabi (

Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C ...

:سعيد الشهابي, born 1954) is a London-based

Bahrain Bahrain ( ; ; ar, البحرين, al-Bahrayn, locally ), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, ' is an island country in Western Asia. It is situated on the Persian Gulf, and comprises a small archipelago made up of 50 natural islands and an ...

i political activist, journalist, commentator and member of the

Bahrain Freedom Movement The Bahrain Freedom Movement ( ar, حركة أحرار البحرين الإسلامية, Harakat Ahrar al-Bahrayn) is a London-based Bahraini opposition group which has its headquarters in a north London mosque. Its main medium is the Voice of B ...

"Dr. Saeed Shahabi - 32nd Anniversary Islamic Revolution - Islamic Centre of England - English"
ShiaTV.net. Shehabi earned his BSc and PhD (in Control Engineering) from the

City University London City, University of London, is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, and a member institution of the federal University of London. It was founded in 1894 as the Northampton Institute, and became a university when The City Univ ...

. Centre for the Study of Terrorism
According to the London-based Centre for the Study of Terrorism, of which he is Trustee, Shahabi edited the London-based Pan-Arabic weekly ''Al Aalam'' from 1983 to 1999 and, in addition to being Chairman of the Gulf Cultural Club, serves as a trustee of two Muslim charities located in London, the Dar Al-Hekma Trust and the Abrar Islamic Foundation, and writes "regularly" for Al-Quds and ''

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''. The BBC describes Shehabi as "leader of a Bahraini opposition group in London.""Bahrain's soldiers 'don't want to continue to kill anybody'"
BBC News, March 17, 2011.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shehabi, Saeed Living people 1954 births Politics of Bahrain Alumni of City, University of London