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international documents from the Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS)

series and Documents on International Affairs 1956 were inspected.

The transliteration of Arabic names in the thesis is adapted from modern

usage. An effort was also made to use the accepted transliteration of family names

as adopted by each family’s descendants in Bahrain. In addition, personalities

mentioned here are referred to by their last names. However common usage

declares that sometimes certain figures in the Arab World are referred to by their

first names (e.g. ‘Nuri Al-Saeed’ as ‘Nuri’).

It is intended that this thesis will fill in the gap of public knowledge about the

political struggle that took place in Bahrain from 1953 to 1957. It must be said that

this has been a long quest to find substantive answers to the questions raised

around this complex moment in the long history of Bahrain.

It would not have been possible for this thesis to have been brought to light

without the assistance, support, and guidance of numerous people. I extend my

gratitude to my supervisor Professor John Charmley for his support and direction. I

also offer my appreciation to Professor Cathie Carmichael for her support and the

University of East Anglia for awarding me a studentship during my period of study.

I would also like to thank a number of universities, archives, and institutions

for their assistance in retrieving documents necessary for my research. I am deeply

grateful to the following individuals: Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, Archivist at the Royal

Society for Asian Affairs; Paul Hastings and Helen Yates at the Incorporated Council

of Law Reporting; Catherine Martin, Martin Killeen, Helen Fisher, and Vicky Clubb at

the Cadbury Research Library in the University of Birmingham. Further, I extend

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