Bahrain in the 21st century. Protests Presist.

Images of Bahrain in 21^st century protests

Human Rights Watch warns that Bahrain's government, which has been criticized for cracking down on opposition protesters, might 'misuse' 1.6 million tear gas canisters.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/04/28/timestopics/topics-bahrain/topics-bahrain-sfSpan-v2.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For a quick and thorough overview of the military base and its influence on the island of Bahrain, here is the link to the globalsecurity.org web page. I miswrote it on one of my last post.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/manama.htm

Overview of Bahrain

 
 

 

Bahrain from the sky.


A tour guided introductory of Bahrain from land.




http://www.bahrain.com/en/Pages/default.aspx#.UwuJATiYaM8











 The Durrat Al Bahrain project








Here is an interesting representation of Bahrain.

Here are some images I got from a website called globalsecurity.com.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/images/usn-bahrain-s.jpg
Because of the news that Iran is sending some of their naval ships to sea I was interested in learning about our naval base stationed in Bahrain.

We have about 1,200 sailors stationed there, many with families. The U.S. Navy is a significant part of Bahrain culture. The website has a lengthy description of the relationship of the base and the location. Definitely worth a read through.

Here is the base.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

notes for next thursday's discussion

Here is some info from my research on my questions.
It is my understanding we should report to this blog while researching.
Then next Thursday we will go over our findings briefly in class.
I believe that the final project needs to be based on the work done here. So if we do a good job of keeping this blog up we should be set.

Social Structure
monarchy kalifah family since 1783
classified himself as king
comes from a federation Bani Utbah from Kuwait
 sunni Shiite conflicts
sunni aristocracy
small population govt pays for everything
edemenities
sponsorship


21st century
sunni palces green Shiite villages brown
80% land owned by royal family

future goals
friendship Causeway to be built