… Bahraini politics. This thesis identifies three elements of the Sunni Muslim mobilization that
may complicate the Bahraini … These are the ethno‐religious dimension in Bahrain, the tension …

… a longstanding feature of Bahraini society, regarding the Sunnis, political dynamics based …
Bahraini Sunni population. Thus, Shiite militantism has helped galvanize a crosscutting Sunni …

… , but this narrative is widely accepted among Bahrain’s Sunni population, mindful of Iran’s …
, while the sectarian violence in Iraq awakened fears of possible inter-communal conflicts in …

… non-sectarian message ‘neither Shiite nor Sunni, just Bahraini’, was intended to prevent an
… terrified and awakened part of the youth, stemming from pro-government Sunni backgrounds …

… Sunnis and Shi’is in Bahrain, and it remains the primary frame both outside observers
and … .org/2012/06/25/are-bahrain-s-sunnis-still-awake/caoa. See for example: Al-Wifaq, Al-Wifaq: …

… population established the precedent of non-Bahraini Sunnis controlling the domestic
Shia population which still holds true today. It is significant to mention that during the colonial …

… Sunni fears of a ‘Shi c i crescent’. As a result, the Sunni GCC monarchies provided assistance
to the Bahraini … internal frustrations can serve as an awakening call on the perils of political …

… Unable to control demonstrators, Bahraini security forces— much of whom are Sunni—
withdrew from Manama on 19 February 2011 and conceded Pearl Square to the protestors. …

… the Sunni Bahrainis interviewed for this chapter believe that the Shia have had a negative
role in nation-building in Bahrain … to which the tension in Bahrain between Sunnis and Shia is …

… There is no difference, Sunni and Shiʿi in Bahrain, we do … to frame events in Bahrain as an
‘Islamic awakening’ and a ‘revolt … that ‘the Great Bahraini revolution is not Shiʿi or Sunni, and …