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Rosie Bsheer and Ziad Abu-Rish

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Bahrain's Past and Present: An Interview with Nabeel Rajab

Dec 12 2011
[Nabeel Rajab. Image from unknown archive.]

During the period of the 1940s through the 1960s, regime forces and oil company private security contractors violently crushed anti-colonial and anti-imperialist protest movements in places like Saudi Arabia and Bahrain (among many others), with the explicit approval of and material support from London and Washington D.C. In Saudi Arabia, counter-revolutionary forces decimated these twentieth-century popular leftist and nationalist movements. They also thwarted several ...

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When Petro-Dictators Unite: The Bahraini Opposition's Struggle for Survival

Mar 19 2011
[Bahraini protesters being confronted with armored vehicles. Image from bbc.com]

For at least several decades, geopolitical, economic, territorial and ideological considerations have led to serious tensions, if not outright feuds, between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states. In recent weeks, however, the regimes of GCC states have shown their citizens that when their authoritarian rule is at stake, they will put aside their differences and put up a united front. Exceptional times, it seems, do call for exceptional measures. As such, the ...

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Bio

Rosie Bsheer and Ziad Abu-Rish

 

Rosie Bsheer is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Columbia University. Her research centers on the study of historiography, archive theories, and the spatial politics of oil cities. Rosie is Associate Producer of the 2007 Oscar-nominated film “My Country, My Country” and is a Co-Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine. Rosie wrote under the pseudonym Khuloud while she lived in Saudi Arabia from 2009-2011. Her other articles are found here.

Ziad Abu-Rish is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA). He is Co-Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine. His other articles can be found here and here.

On the tenth anniversary of 9/11, it is tempting to want to linger on the part about “being right,” but it’s more important to focus on why “it didn’t matter” because we are still right, and it still doesn’t matter.
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