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..
Rosie Bsheer and Ziad Abu-Rish
Rosie Bsheer is Assistant Professor of History at Yale University and Co-Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine. Her other articles are found here.
Ziad Abu-Rish is Co-Director of the MA Program in Human Rights and the Arts, and Visiting Associate Professor of Human Rights, at Bard College. He was previously Assistant Professor of History and Founding Director of the Middle East and North Africa Studies Certificate Program at Ohio University. Abu-Rish is Co-Editor of Jadaliyya. His other articles can be found here and here.