Tarout Bay
Shallow Gulf bay of mangroves and glittering tidal flats, once a pirate's battleground.
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This guide to Tarout Bay near Dammam follows Rahmah ibn Jabir, a one-eyed Gulf pirate whom an English traveller ranked among the most successful ever to sail. It goes back to the seventeen-eighties and a clan quarrel over Bahrain with the Al Khalifa, then to the summer of eighteen twenty-six, when Bahrain's fleet lay waiting off the mouth of this bay. Best heard on the shore, looking out toward the Dammam coast.
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