Lebanon’s Interior Minister Bassam al-Mawlawi Thursday banned two Bahrain opposition conferences from being held near the capital Beirut to avoid aggravating a crisis with the Gulf. Al-Mawlawi – who ordered members of a Bahraini opposition party to leave Lebanon in December last year – sent requests to authorities so that they can inform Al-Saha Hotel not to host the two conferences scheduled for 11 and 14 February. The organisers had allegedly not obtained legal permits to hold the two conferences. The hotel is located in a southern suburb of Beirut largely under the control of the powerful S…