![Bahrain's Foreign Minister Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmed al-Khalifa attends the opening of an Arab foreign ministers emergency meeting to discuss the Syrian crisis and the potential military strike on President Bashar al-Assad's regime, at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, September 1, 2013. Saudi Arabia told fellow Arab League states on Sunday that opposing international intervention against the Syrian government would only encourage Damascus to use weapons of mass destruction. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/09/RTX1341S.jpg/RTX1341S.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=PUFrRqPG)
Husain Marhoon is an independent Bahraini journalist. He has worked as a columnist and coordinator of the cultural pages for the Bahraini newspapers Al Waqt and Al Ayam. He covered the events of the Bahraini Spring since 2011 for several media outlets, and his articles have been published in a variety of Arab newspapers and periodicals, including Al-Akhbar, An-Nahar and Al-Jazeera. On Twitter: @marhoon
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![Adnan Bader of the Al-Asala Society, a Sunni pro-government group, waves as he arrives at the National Dialogue session in Manama June 12, 2013. The talks, aimed at ending more than two years of unrest in Bahrain, resumed after a two-week boycott by opposition societies in retaliation against a raid on the home of Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim by security forces. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed (BAHRAIN - Tags: POLITICS) - RTX10LAB](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/07/1-RTX10LAB.jpg/1-RTX10LAB.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=EEK5qNiE)
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