Monday
Feb202006
Bahrain's Shia dissidents
Issandr El Amrani
Megan Stack of the LA Times has a very nice story on the Shia of Bahrain, or Ajam, and their struggle for political recognition. It focuses on one family that has returned from exile in Canada and tries to find its footing in the midst of promises of reform. As always with Megan, it is exceedingly well written.
Reader Comments (1)
I didn't know eyes could quiver ... A very nice moving story although I get the idea that Stack is swallowing something here. There seems to be much mention in the U.S./UK press these days about the "Sunni Arab majority" as "bad guys". It might be my imagination but have U.S./UK reporters adopted the American codeword for assorted Iraqi troublemakers and then lazily applied the template to the rest of the Arab world. The region's problems seem a little more complex than that and some classic American distilling is definitely not what is needed right now.