Download or read book Transnational Shia Politics written by Laurence Louër and published by Hurst & Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book illuminates the historical origins and present situation of militant Shia transnational networks by focusing on three key countries in the Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, whose Shia Islamic groups are the offspring of Iraqi movements. The reshaping of the areas geopolitics after the Gulf War and the fall of Saddam Hussein in April 2003 have had a profoundimpact on transnational Shiite networks, pushing them to focus on national issues in the context of new political opportunities.