Ebrahim Bashmi (, born ) is a Bahraini politician, novelist, journalist, and nonfiction writer.

Biography

Bashmi was born in

Manama Manama ( ', Bahrani Arabic, Bahrani pronunciation: ) is the capital and List of cities in Bahrain, largest city of Bahrain, with an approximate population of 297,502 as of 2012. Long an important trading center in the Persian Gulf, Manama is ...

. He obtained a

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in journalism from

Cairo University Cairo University () is Egypt's premier public university. Its main campus is in Giza, immediately across the Nile from Cairo. It was founded on 21 December 1908;"Brief history and development of Cairo University." Cairo University Faculty of En ...

in 1971. He then worked for several publications: journalist for Bahraini newspaper ''Al-Adwaa'' from 1971 to 1973, editor-in-chief of ''Al-Osboa'' from 1975 to 1980, director of the Bahrain office for the Emirati newspaper '' Al Khaleej'' from 1980 to 1982, and deputy director of the

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in Bahrain from 1982 to 1983. Most notably, he served as editor-in-chief of the ''Al Khaleej''’s ''Panorama'' magazine from 1983 to 2003. He chaired the editorial board of ''

Al-Waqt ''Al-Waqt'' ( meaning ''The Time'') was a Bahraini Arabic-language daily newspaper. It was published between 2006 and 2010. History and profile ''Al Waqt'' was first published on 21 February 2006. Khawla Mattar was among the founders of the pape ...

'' from 2005 to 2010. He was appointed to the

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, the nation’s upper house, from 2002 to 2014.

Works

# ''اليمن بوابة الخليج الخلفية'' (“

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:Gateway to the Gulf,” 1982) # ''الكويت فرز الأوراق الديمقراطية'' (“Elections in

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,” 1982) # ''بلوشستان قوس الخليج المشدود'' (“

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: The Narrow Arch of the Gulf,” 1985) # ''أيام زمان'' (“The Old Days,” 1986) # ''حكايات شعبية'' (“Folk Tales,” 1986) # ''بيوت البحرين القديمة'' (“Old Houses of Bahrain,” 1987) # ''أرخبيل الحكايات'' (“Tales of the Archipelago,” 1988) # ''مملكة هرمز .. الفقاعة الذهبية'' (“Kingdom of

Ormus The Kingdom of Ormus (also known as Hormoz or Hormuz; ; ) was located in the eastern side of the Persian Gulf and extended as far as Bahrain in the west at its zenith. The Kingdom was established in the 11th century initially as a dependency of ...

: The Golden Bubble,” 1994) # ''منمنمات'' (“Miniatures,” 1994) # ''حكايات الأمثال'' (“Tales of Proverbs,” 1994) # ''الحكواتي الشرقي'' (Eastern Storytellers“,” 1994) # ''عقد اللآل في تاريخ أوال'' (“History of

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,” 1994) # ''المنامة شانزيليزيه الخليج'' (“Manama: The

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of the

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,” 1994) # ''ليس للعشق من يقين'' (“Love Has No Certainty,” 1998) # ''(واطرفتاه – (حياة الشاعر طرفة بن العبد'' (“And His Immoderation: The Life of Tarafa ibn al-Abd,” 1998) # ''قوس الخليج المشدود'' (“The Narrow Arch of the Gulf,” 1998) # ''(خليج السبعينات (رواية شاهد عيان'' (“The Gulf in the 1970’s: An Eyewitness Novel,” 2002) # ''هواجس البحرين الديمقراطية'' (“Issues in Bahrain’s Democracy,” 2002) # ''إشكالية غياب الثقافة الديمقراطية'' (“Problems with the Lack of a Democratic Culture,” 2002)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bashmi, Ebrahim 1947 births Living people Cairo University Bahraini people of Iranian descent Bahraini people of Pakistani descent Bahraini journalists Members of the Consultative Council (Bahrain)