DUBAI (Dispatches) – Bahrain has ordered 17,000 English school textbooks reprinted for labeling the body of water surrounding the tiny kingdom as the Persian Gulf, state news agency BNA reported on Monday.
Bahrain and the other U.S.-allied Persian Gulf states resent the term, even though valid history books corroborate the face the real name of the body of water is "Persian Gulf”.
Bahrain’s education ministry, the news report said, had commissioned an unnamed "overseas establishment” to print the books for third-grade schoolchildren and provided it with "correct material” to include in the book.
"The discrepancy was spotted at the time of distributing the textbooks to students ... The establishment was obliged to re-print 17,000 copies of the textbook after correction of the error,” BNA quoted a ministry official saying.