A line in the sea : the Qatar v. Bahrain border dispute in the World Court /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Al-Arayed, Jawad Salim (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley, Calif. : North Atlantic Books, [2003]
Subjects:	Qatar > Boundaries > Bahrain. Bahrain > Boundaries > Qatar. Boundaries. Bahrain. Qatar. Qatar > Foreign relations > Bahrain. Bahrain > Foreign relations > Qatar. Islands. Sovereignty. Delimitation. Maritime boundaries. International Court of Justice. Cases. Qatar > Frontières > Bahrein. Bahrein > Frontières > Qatar.
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Table of Contents:

Early history in the lower Arabian Gulf
Advent of western powers in the Gulf
Al Khalifa rule of Bahrain, Hasa, and Qatar Peninsula (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries)
Life on the Qatar Peninsula
Piracy, the British, and Bahrain's emergence as a political entity
Ottoman presence and Qatar's emergence as a separate entity
Qatar's version of historical context
Founding and zenith of Zubarah
The Naim : Bahrain's people in Qatar Peninsula
Ottoman attempts to take control of Zubarah
Zubarah in the early twentieth century
Qatar captures Zubarah, July 1937
Qatar's version of events in Zubarah
Dowasir tribe and occupation of the Hawar islands
Bahrain authority as manifested in Hawar
British and Ottoman recognition of Bahrain's authority over the Hawars
Oil concessions in the Hawars
British adjudication of sovereignty
Qatar's version of the Hawar situation
Steps toward resolution
The forged documents
The judgement.