It’s tribal and religious divisions that really shape the Middle East – and that account for the Saudi intervention in Bahrain
I once got lost in Asir, the mountainous region on Saudi Arabia’s southwestern border with Yemen. This was the home of many of the terrorists on September 11, from the million-strong al-Ghamdi tribe.
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