As popular uprisings spread across the Middle East, popular wisdom often held that the Gulf States would remain beyond the fray. In Sectarian Gulf, Toby Matthiesen paints a very different picture, off
Archaeologists were excited when the discovery of an Islamic period fortress was announced in the 1970s, because it seemed to be Umayyad, but the first outside the caliphate dynasty's area of origins.
Britain's relationship with the Gulf region remains one of the few unexplored episodes in the study of British decolonization. The decision, announced in 1968, to leave the Gulf within three years rep
The Gulf States are the focus of great international interest – yet their fabulous evolution from pearl-fishing to oil-drilling, their individuality and variety, are screened by a thick cloud of petro
In, The Islamic Funerary Inscriptions of Bahrain, an illustrated catalogue of 150 gravestones with modern Arabic transcription and English translation is provided with discussion of gravestone chronol
The oil-producing states of the Arab Gulf are said to sink or swim on their capacity for political appeasement through economic redistribution. Yet, during the popular uprisings of the Arab Spring, in
It seems an unlikely friendship, but for nearly the past six decades the US has enjoyed Bahrain as a steadfast ally through the Cold War and turbulence in the Mid East. Naval historian Winkler describ
The oil-producing states of the Arab Gulf are said to sink or swim on their capacity for political appeasement through economic redistribution. Yet, during the popular uprisings of the Arab Spring, in
In City of Strangers, Andrew M. Gardner explores the everyday experiences of workers from India who have migrated to the Kingdom of Bahrain. Like all the petroleum-rich states of the Persian Gulf, Bah
Through the lens of a new interpretation of criminal justice history Bahrain, Sectarianism, and Crime focuses on a cache of colonial criminal cases dated 1924 to 1940. It outlines major shifts in noti
