Ali Aldairy
Ali Ahmed Aldairy (Arabic: علي أحمد الديري) is a Bahraini author, editor, cultural critic and activist. He holds a PhD in speech analysis and wrote several books. He had also started his blog "Hawamel Aldairy" (in Arabic: هوامل الديري).[1] Following the Bahraini uprising of 2011, he went into exile in Lebanon and founded Bahrain Mirror newspaper. He moved to Canada in 2016.[2][3]
On 31 January 2015, Aldairy along with three other journalists had their nationality revoked by the Ministry of Interior (MoI). They and sixty-eight other citizens were accused by the government of supporting terrorism and spreading misinformation. There was no trial, as the MoI, according to Bahrain's citizenship law has the right to withdraw the nationality of anyone with questionable loyality to Bahrain. The Committee to Protect Journalists described the decision as a punishment for journalists who are critical of the government. Reporters Without Borders also described the decision as a penalty for journalists who don't "toe the government line".[4][5] Aldairy considered the official justifications, and the inclusion of four known terrorists alongside political dissedents as an attempt to muddy the waters.[6]
In a review for his book, Texts of Monstrosity, Wesam Alsebea praised Aldairy for his originality, depth and style, and added that Aldairy through his previous books proved to have an "exceptional ability to tackle tricky intellectual topics".[7]
References[edit]
- Footnotes
- ↑ "هوامل الديري". هوامل الديري (in العربية). Retrieved 2021-11-16.
- ↑ "Ali Aldairy". TheGuardian.com. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
- ↑ "Bahrain Mirror Publishes "Stateless" by "Ali Al-Dairy"". Bahrain Mirror. 10 August 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
- ↑ "Four Bahraini journalists stripped of citizenship". Committee to Protect Journalists. 4 February 2015. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
- ↑ "Seven Bahraini journalists rendered stateless since 2011". Reporters Without Borders. 14 February 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
- ↑ Aldairy 2017, 43–45.
- ↑ Wesam Alsebea (10 August 2015). "مآسي الهوس الديني... ونصوص التوحش" [Tragedies of religious fanaticism... and texts of monstrosity]. Al-Wasat (Bahraini newspaper) (in Arabic). Retrieved 20 November 2020.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- Bibliography
- Aldairy, Ali Ahmed (August 2017). بلا هوية: إسقاط الجنسية كما شرحتها لأماسيل [Stateless: Stripping of Nationality Explained to Amaseel] (in Arabic). Bahrain Mirror. ISBN 978-9953-0-4061-5.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link) Search this book on
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