Qatif or Al-Qatif (Arabic: ٱلْقَطِيف Al-Qaṭīf) is a governorate and urban area located in Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. It extends from Ras Tanura and...
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Saudi Aramco's Qatif Project is an oilfield development project in Qatif, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia, operated by the country's national oil company...
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The Qatif conflict is a modern phase of sectarian tensions and violence in Eastern Arabia between Arab Shia Muslims and Arab Sunni majority, which has...
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The 1979 Qatif Uprising, also known as the Muharram Intifada was a period of unprecedented civil unrest that occurred in Qatif and Al-Hasa, Saudi Arabia...
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Qal'at al-Qatif (Qatif Castle), also known as Hadaret Qatif, Qasbet Al-Qatif, Madenet Al-Qatef Al Mohasana, Al-Farda, or Al-Mahfouza, is an ancient fortress...
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The Qatif rape case (Arabic: قضية اغتصاب فتاة القطيف) is a much-publicized gang rape case. The victims were a Shia young woman from Qatif (Eastern Province...
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The 2017–2020 Qatif unrest was a phase of conflict in the Qatif region of Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia, between Saudi security forces and the local...
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Madinah in 930 AD and held the Black Stone to ransom in Ain Al Kuayba, Qatif. The region was ruled by the Qaramatians until 976 AD, when after losing...
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Qatif and Dammam mosque bombings (Saudi Arabia) The Qatif and Dammam mosque bombings occurred on 22 and 29 May 2015. On Friday May 22, a suicide bomber...
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The siege of Qatif was a military confrontation between the Portuguese Empire and the Ottoman Empire at Qatif in 1551. The Portuguese, together with their...
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Abdullah bin Ali Al Uyuni (section Restoring Qatif)
of Baghdad to Al-Ahsa, from where he marched through Basra to Qatif. Salar looted Qatif and confiscated the treasury of Ibn Ayyash (who had fled to Awal...
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(often called Lājām [laː.dʒaːm] locally) is a small village located in the Qatif Governorate, which is affiliated with the city of Safwa in the Eastern Province...
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2011–2012 Saudi Arabian protests (category Qatif conflict)
against anti-Shia discrimination followed in February and early March in Qatif, Hofuf, al-Awamiyah, and Riyadh. A Facebook organiser of a planned 11 March...
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of 1979 Iranian Revolution Consolidation of the Iranian Revolution 1979 Qatif Uprising Grand Mosque seizure 1979–1980 Shia uprising in Iraq 1980s Iran–Iraq...
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Baharna, is primarily concentrated in the country's Eastern Province, chiefly Qatif and Al-Ahsa. A Twelver Shia community also exists in Medina known as the...
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Khalid of Saudi Arabia (section 1979 Qatif Uprising)
effects on the politics of Saudi Arabia: the Grand Mosque seizure and the Qatif Uprising. Some foreign observers thought traditionalism was no longer a...
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Usfurid rule was weakened after Persian rulers of Hormuz captured Bahrain and Qatif in 1320. The vassals of Ormuz, the Shia Jarwanid dynasty came to rule eastern...
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featuring mineral sulfur water, located in the village of Al-Bahari within the Qatif Governorate of Eastern Saudi Arabia. The bath was constructed in proximity...
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Highway), Khafji, Khobar (Dammam-Khobar Highway), Ras Tanura, Sihat and Qatif (Gulf Road), as well as many cities in other parts of the Kingdom are linked...
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Business administration Basic Medical Sciences Medical Applied Sciences- Qatif Education-Hafer AlBatin Science and Arts-Khafji Medical Applied Sciences...
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of Qatif, in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. The most important places in Aljish are prince Naif sport city, Qatif General Hospital and Qatif Iskan...
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to the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, connected by three causeways to Qatif. It is six kilometers from the coast, and is the longest island in the Persian...
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center of Tarut Island, located southwest of Deira, in the eastern part of Qatif Governorate, Saudi Arabia. The hill, known as Tall Tawt, is estimated to...
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b. Shukr b. Ali. From 587 to 605, H. Mohammed bin Abi Al-Hussain united Qatif and Al-Hasa. The region known as Bahrain, located in the eastern part of...
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Al-Ahsa belonged to the historical region known as Bahrain, along with Qatif and the present-day Bahrain islands[citation needed]. One campus of a major...
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region of Eastern Arabia that included Southern Iraq, Kuwait, Al-Hasa, Qatif, and Bahrain. The region stretched from Basra in Iraq to the Strait of Hormuz...
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Emir of the island. Despite that he was unable to beat the new leader of Qatif, Yahya bin Abbas, and the island soon came under their control once more...
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