Dr Ala'a Shehabi is a British-born Bahraini lecturer, writer & pro-democracy activist in Bahrain. She has a PhD in Economics from Imperial College London & worked for two years as a policy analyst at RAND Europe.
In Bahrain she is a founding member of Bahrain Watch and the Bahrain Rehabilitation & Anti-violence Organisation (BRAVO).
She writes for Jadaliyya, Guardian, OpenDemocracy, Al-Akhbar, UnCut. She appears frequently on Aljazeera and the BBC.
