The #PearlRoundabout was first cleared of protesters on #ThisDayInHistory in 2011. The #ArabSpring in #Bahrain was fraught given its sectarian régime. #TearGas, birdshot rounds, and swinging clubs left four dead and 300+ wounded. Calls to depose the king grew louder thereafter.
The #ArabUprisings/#ArabSpring spread to #Bahrain on #ThisDayInHistory in 2011 with 6000 joining a #DayOfRage. At its height ~150,000 filled #PearlRoundabout in #Manama, half its population. But hosting a US base & minority sectarian rule meant this one would be crushed by force.
Precerpt (#book #excerpt prior to publication) from In with the East Wind: A Mary Poppins Kind of Life - #Bahrain: #Manama
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#NewYorkInstituteofTechnology #Al-Khalifa #PearlRoundabout #education #MiddleEast #universitylibrary #Arabic #Bahraindialect
