Raihan Ismail was born in Egypt and is currently a PhD scholar at the ANU Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies. Her thesis topic is: “The education of the Saudi religious authorities".
Bahrain’s Arab Spring has developed into an ugly sectarian battle, pitting the Al-Khalifa regime, with the support of Saudi Arabia, conservative Sunni clerics and most of Bahrain’s Sunni minority on one side, against activists for the country’s Shia majority on the other. This development has suit