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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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capital to Qatif, then to Awal (today’s state of Bahrain). In his reign, the state extended to Kuwait. Then in 513 H. the Capital went back to Qatif. In 531...
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it was radicalized in 1979 as a result of the Iranian revolution and the Qatif Uprising. The group subsequently strove for change through confrontation...
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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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National Museum Sanaa bombings (Mar) Jalalabad bombing Curtis Culwell Center Qatif & Dammam bombings 26 June Kobanî massacre Saint-Quentin-Fallavier Kuwait...
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Qal'at al-Qatif (Arabic: قلعة القطيف) or Qatif Castle was a historic castle in the city of Qatif, Saudi Arabia. Initial construction of the castle dates...
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Abdulaziz proclaimed the union of the main Saudi dominions of al-Hasa, Qatif, Nejd and the Hejaz as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Kingdom of Hejaz...
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worsened substantially over the next decade. The direct trigger of the Qatif uprising following the 1979 Iranian Revolution was a mourning procession...
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(MDH) - Khobar Procare Riaya Hospital - Khobar Qatif Central Hospital – Qatif Al Bati Medical Center – Qatif Dar Afia Medical Center – Dammam Tadawi General...
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the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd joined the Saudi dominions of Al-Hasa and Qatif, creating the unified Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The name of the region is...
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rest of Khor Al Adaid Saudi Arabia 23 September 1932 Regions of al-Hasa, Qatif, Nejd and Hejaz unified to become Saudi Arabia 13 January 1902 Establishment...
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