Muhammad al-Banki
Muhammad Ahmed Al-Banki was a Bahraini philosopher and writer and a key postmodern in the region in the 1990s. Once an Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Culture and Information, he died on April 28, 2010.
Career
Al-Banki graduated from the College of Arts of the University of Bahrain in 1990, when he began editing the culture column of the local newspaper Al Ayam. After a short time there, he returned to his alma mater to serve as director of its Department of Public Relations and Media. While working there, he edited a series of literary and critical periodicals, ultimately leading to a post as Editor-in-Chief of Al-Watan.Al-Banki worked briefly as an advisor to Minister of Culture Mai [bint Mohammed Al Khalifa]. He was appointed Under-Secretary in 2008 and served as such until his death in 2010.