your children know your lost country? Is your na.onality plunges you into an there any hope of returning to your existen.al ordeal that has no treatment or homeland? Will your children inherit the cure. ordeal of their homeland, just as Edward Said inherited it from his parents? Will you and The following report monitors the metrics, your children be ‘out of place’? Are you the enumerates cases, and provides the facts on reason why your children lost the heirlooms the revoca.on of ci.zen. But the existen.al and legacy of their grandparents? wound of all those affected can only be explained in the states all those who have You will be accompanied by a constant, had their na.onality revoked must reckon irreversible lump in your throat, moved when with: they are people who suddenly found you find a writer from your lost homeland, themselves exiled of their homeland, their emo.ng a painful expression as he tells the status and iden.ty becoming undefined. story of his family who lost their homeland These are the cases that human rights three decades before your emigra.on, "A defenders discuss, UN agencies inves.gate, lump, they migrate, leaving a country that is poli.cians covet, and world governments no longer theirs, towards a country that will evade. never be theirs…” Thus, the state of revoking Dr. Ali Ahmed Al-Dairi∗ May 13, 2021 Windsor / Canada ∗ Dr. Ali Ahmed Al-Dairi is an academic, researcher and writer. He has published several books, including ‘Stateless’ ‫ هوية‬%‫ ’ب‬in Arabic. His Bahraini ci.zenship was revoked in January 2015. He is currently residing in Canada or ‘ away from his home in Bahrain. 6 | Arbitrary Revoca.on of Na.onality in Bahrain - a Tool of Oppression