Sectarian gulf : Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring that wasn't / Toby Matthiesen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matthiesen, Toby, 1984-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Protest movements--Bahrain.

Protest movements.

Protest movements--Saudi Arabia.

Shīʻah--Relations--Sunnites.

Shīʻah.

Sunnites--Relations--Shīʻah.

Sunnites.

Arab Spring, 2010-.

Bahrain--Politics and government--21st century.

Bahrain.

Saudi Arabia--Politics and government--21st century.

Saudi Arabia.

Persian Gulf States--Politics and government--21st century.

Persian Gulf States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Briefs, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, offering the first assessment of the Arab Spring across the region. With first-hand accounts of events in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait, Matthiesen tells the story of the early protests, and illuminates how the regimes quickly suppressed these movements. Pitting citizen against citizen, the regimes have warned of an increasing threat from the Shia population. Relations between

Contents:

Oil, God, and pearls

The great sectarian game

Pearl roundabout

Counter-revolution

A Saudi achilles heel

The orange movement

Arab springs, Arab falls.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020)

ISBN:

9780804787222

0804787220

OCLC:

1198931469