Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark
Encyclopedia
Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark is a television
documentary film produced by Qatar
-based news channel Al Jazeera English about the 2011 Bahraini uprising
. The film was first aired on 4 August, 2011, featuring footage recorded during protests and police crackdowns, interviews with activists and physicians as well as footage aired by Bahraini TV.
. Bahraini Foreign Minster Khalid Al Khalifah
criticised Qatar on his official Twitter
account after the airing of the film:
Rumours came out about the Bahraini intention to cut off relationships with Qatar. but were denied by Bahraini foreign ministry. Other reports citied diplomatic pressure to cancel the re-broadcasting of the film, which were, in turn, followed by removing times of rebroadcasts from Al Jazeera English's website. The film was finally re-broadcast on 11 August, and followed by discussion with the first deputy chairman of the Consultative Council of Bahrain
Jamal Fakhro as the pro-government guest.
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
documentary film produced by Qatar
Qatar
Qatar , also known as the State of Qatar or locally Dawlat Qaṭar, is a sovereign Arab state, located in the Middle East, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the much larger Arabian Peninsula. Its sole land border is with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its...
-based news channel Al Jazeera English about the 2011 Bahraini uprising
2011 Bahraini uprising
The 2011 Bahraini uprising, sometimes called the February 14 Revolution is a series of demonstrations, amounting to a sustained campaign of civil resistance, in the Persian Gulf country of Bahrain...
. The film was first aired on 4 August, 2011, featuring footage recorded during protests and police crackdowns, interviews with activists and physicians as well as footage aired by Bahraini TV.
Production
The film was shot by undercover crew after the Bahraini government had banned all foreign journalists.Reception
In four days, the documentary received almost 200,000 views on YouTubeYouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
. Bahraini Foreign Minster Khalid Al Khalifah
Khalid ibn Ahmad Al Khalifah
Sheikh Khalid ibn Ahmad Al Khalifa is the Foreign Minister of Bahrain. Sheikh Khaled was appointed in a cabinet reshuffle in September 2005, having previously been the ambassador to the United Kingdom, serving there from 2001....
criticised Qatar on his official Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
account after the airing of the film:
Rumours came out about the Bahraini intention to cut off relationships with Qatar. but were denied by Bahraini foreign ministry. Other reports citied diplomatic pressure to cancel the re-broadcasting of the film, which were, in turn, followed by removing times of rebroadcasts from Al Jazeera English's website. The film was finally re-broadcast on 11 August, and followed by discussion with the first deputy chairman of the Consultative Council of Bahrain
Consultative Council of Bahrain
The Consultative Council is the name given to the upper house of the National Assembly, the main legislative body of Bahrain....
Jamal Fakhro as the pro-government guest.