This article rejects the paradigm of “ancient sectarian hatreds” to explain the turmoil in the
Middle East. Instead, the political context that illuminates the question of sectarianism is the …

After the 1994 Oslo Accords, Palestinians were hopeful that an end to the Israeli occupation
was within reach, and that a state would be theirs by 1999. With this promise, international …

“Invaluable to anyone wanting a fuller understanding of the economic, political, and religious
tensions within Bahrain.”—The Sociological Imagination The oil-producing states of the Arab …

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has survived the revolutions in the Arab world largely
unscathed and entrenched itself as the undisputed leader of the Arab monarchies and the …

The'Arab Spring'has come to symbolise defeated hopes for democracy and social justice in
the Middle East. In this book, Jamie Allinson demonstrates how these defeats were far from …

Hostile relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia are a major contributing factor to political
instability in the Middle East. This book argues that rapprochement between Tehran and …

The competing strategies of political rule observed in Bahrain since the 1999 succession of
King Ḥamad bin ʿĪsā Āl Khalīfa were brought into stark relief as a result of the popular …

The notion of 'minority'has traditionally been understood as an ethnic or religious category
based on primary identity markers, and as such only makes sense relative to a broader …

The uprising in Bahrain that began on 14 February 2011 has been contained but not
resolved. While the immediate period of danger to the position of the ruling Al-Khalifa family …

Abstract Bahrain's Royal Family, the Al Khalifa, has long pursued a strategy of divide and
rule in order to prevent the emergence of cross-opposition coalitions, while exacerbating the …