Yesterday, I was talking to my sister, Mirvat in Beirut. We were talking about Bahrain and she asked me about my contacts in Bahrain, and about their sectarian identity. It hit me, I told her, that I don't know the sectarian identity of any of my contacts. Bahrain is not like Lebanon, in that regard, and the protest movement in Bahrain has a long (secular) history and it started against Al-Khalifah long before the Islamic Revolution in Iran.