What is Saeed Shehabi?
{{Infobox person | name = Saeed al-Shehabi<br>سعيد الشهابي | image = <!-- just the filename, without the File: or Image: prefix or enclosing [[brackets]] --> | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1954 | birth_place = [[Bahrain]] | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} or {{Death-date and age|Month DD, YYYY|Month DD, YYYY}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | nationality = [[Bahraini]] | other_names = | known_for = | occupation = Political activist, journalist, commentator, and member of the [[Bahrain Freedom Movement]] }} '''Saeed Shehabi''' is a [[Bahrain]]i [[thinker]], political [[activist]], commentator and [[journalist]]. He is a regular columnist in the daily Arabic ''Al-Quds'' newspaper.<ref>Arabic Al-Quds newspaper: http://www.alquds.co.uk/</ref> He gives regular interviews to the [[BBC]]'s ''Middle East Service'' and ''[[AlJazeera]]''. He is also the Director of Abrar House,<ref>Abrar House: http://www.abraronline.net {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406180824/http://www.abraronline.net/ |date=2016-04-06 }}</ref> an [[Islam]]ic community center in Central [[London]] that promotes interfaith work. He is also the leader of the pro-democractic Bahrain Freedom Movement,<ref>Bahrain Freedom Movement: http://www.vob.org</ref> that is a banned Bahraini opposition group. He was also a founding member of Al-Wefaq National Party.<ref>Al-Wefaq National Party: http://alwefaq.net/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111016224434/http://alwefaq.net/ |date=2011-10-16 }}</ref> He was previously the editor of ''Alalam'' magazine and now hosts a weekly television programme on Alalam TV.<ref>Alalam TV: http://www.alalam.ir/</ref> He has been living in [[exile]] in London since 1979 and returned to Bahrain on two occasions in 2002. He has a [[PhD]] in [[engineering]] from [[City University]]. Saeed Shehabi is married and has seven children. On August 2010, Bahrain TV <ref>Bahrain TV: http://www.alayam.com/tv