Like many other countries of the Middle East, Bahrain has been repeatedly conquered by foreign invaders, including the Abbasids, Jarwinids, Omanis, Persians and Portuguese. In 1783, a tribal confederation backed by a Kuwaiti naval force and Bedouins from Qatar’s Zubara invaded Bahrain and established the rule of the House of Khalifa. But their uninterrupted political […]
Bahrain’s Shiite-Sunni Apartheid
The country’s Shiite majority has for generations been treated as an oppressed minority.
