Bahrain needs negotiations, not dialogue

Anniversaries are by their nature retrospective. As Bahraini opposition MPs gathered for a seminar in Britain’s House of Lords on 12 February – one of many events marking the two years that have passed since the start of the small island’s uprising – the mood was one of remembrance, not expectation. Farida Ghulam, wife of jailed political leader Ebrahim Sharif and a senior Waad party member in her own right, recounted what had happened to her husband and the other high-profile political prisoners jailed with him.