Abdulhadi Khalaf ( ar, عبد الهادي خلف, born 1945) is a Bahraini

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political activist and

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in the Sociology department at

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region.

Biography

He received his primary and secondary education in

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, then went abroad for college. He obtained a doctorate in

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from

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and was elected in December 1973. The assembly was an advisory body with limited powers to approve laws drawn up by the government. Several months after the National Assembly convened, Khalaf was expelled and arrested on charges of supporting one of several banned political groups that called for a

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. He was released from prison in 1975, then rearrested in 1976, again because of his political activities on behalf of democratic government. Between 1975 and 1990, Khalaf was worked as a consultant for a number of institutions including UNECWA (now

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). In 1990, he accepted an appointment to teach sociology at the University of Lund and moved to Sweden. He continues to write articles about Bahrain's politics and society for Arabic and English publications across the

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. He has also written and published multiple books on the region.

Bibliography

*''Conditions and needs of Working Women in Bahrain'', Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Manama, in 1983. *''Civil Resistance: Schools and forms of Mass Action'', Arab Research Institute, Beirut, in 1988. *''Contentious Politics and State-Building in Bahrain'', Research Reports in Sociology, 2000:1, Dept of Sociology, U. of Lund, in 2000. ** ''Contentious Politics and State-Building in Bahrain'', An Arabic translation published in 2000. Reprinted in 2004. *''Constitutional Reform and Political Participation in the Gulf'', co-edited by Giacomo Luciani, Gulf Research Center, Dubai, 2006, .

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