AT FIRST EVERYBODY thought it was a sort of joke. But after four or five days we got a call saying we had to go back to Bahrain or our passports would be withdrawn. We would have to leave our mother. We would lose everything. Alanoud Aljalahma, a 22-year-old premedical student, recounts how the rift between the Gulf's royal clans threatened to sunder her own family. Her mother, a Oatari doctor, is divorced from her father, a Bahraini general. Under the Gulf's patriarchal rules, she and her two siblings have their father's nationality. But they live with their mother in Doha, the capital of Qatar, and consider themselves to be Qataris.
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