I. Would you be able to place Bahrain on a map?
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1) Where is it?
2) Which two countries share a border with Bahrain?
3) What is the capital and largest city in Bahrain?
4) What is the official language?
5) Is it a Republic?
6) What was the population in 2010?
7) What is their currency?
8) What happened in 2002 which caused strong refuse from the most of nation parties & opposition?
9) Which political activists were jailed in 2002?
III. Maryam Al Khawaja was 2012 Freedom House Award Winner. Watch this video and answer the questions below:
1) What is the metaphor she uses to describe the feeling of coming together?
2) She says their demands were not political. What were their demands based on?
3) Who is her father?
4) Why did she think they would not do anything to her father?
5) Abdhulahadi Al Khawaja went on a hunger strike. For how long?
6) What happened to Maryam’s sister?
7) Why does Maryam call what is happening in Bahrain ‘the inconvenient truth’?
8) What is Maryam’s self-imposed responsibility?
IV. What is courage? How would you define it?
V. Watch the beginning of this video and answer the questions below.
1) According to Maryam, what is courage?
2) Who are the two people who really inspired her?
3) How does she define the government in Bahrain?
4) The fact that her father fought for human rights meant that he could be arrested, tortured and killed. What else did it mean?
Now you’re ready for the Students’ Forum on Human Rights.
