Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): Awal Centre for Studies and Documentation will open its doors to visitors, for the first time, on Monday and Tuesday (June 8 and 9, 2015) from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. During these hours, the center will make available more than 10,000 documents on Bahrain, namely the period of martial law (State of National Safety) from mid-March 2011 until the end of May 2011, marking International Archives Day.

Awal Centre for Studies and Documentation is a Bahraini institution established in London in 2013. It is concerned with Gulf issues in general and Bahraini issues in particular. It aims at preserving the Bahraini national memory by documenting all typewritten and digital records linked to this memory and keeping pace with emerging events.

Awal's documentation and archiving project, according to its team, "aims at enabling every researcher, specialist and student to have access to documents and references related to Bahrain, and benefit from them in various fields." Awal centre team also stresses that "it is determined to avoid selectivity in documenting facts in order to establish a Bahraini memory distant from idealism and standardization."

The center managed to archive over 22,000 documents to date, which include various issues in an attempt to document the Bahraini movement, most importantly "the period of National Safety, the 2014 elections, the arrest of Sheikh Ali Salman, the trial of Al-Wefaq Society among other events". Awal centre also follows all the updates on Bahrain and documents them on a regular basis.

Awal Centre for Studies and Documentation will welcome requests starting from Sunday (June 7, 2015) from researchers and anyone interested on its email addresses and social media accounts shown below.

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