In popular accounts of politics in the Arabian Peninsula in this post-Arab uprisings era, "sectarianism" has been an omnipresent signifier for conflict and unrest. The term commonly acts – implicitly, because it is never qualified or defined – as both a description of political contest..
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Sectarianism, Opposition Parties, and Online Activism in Bahrain: An Interview with Blogger Chan'ad Bahraini
For the blogosphere in the Gulf region, the name Chan`ad became a reference to all of those who were seeking accurate, well written, and up-to-date inside information from Bahrain in English. Chan`ad, author of the blog Chan`ad Bahraini 2.0, has been a..