Talk:Hyacinth incident

Title of the article

I was wondering where the title of this article came from. I can find no source that refers to the incident as such - the only sources I could find refer to the incident as the Dubai or 'Debai' Incident.Acres of Sand 2 (talk) 17:54, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

Lots do... one I have to hand at the moment is Rosemarie Said Zahlan's 'The Origins of the United Arab Emirates'. It's mostly indexed as such (so Zahlan page 274), as well as referred to by the same title (another would be Chelsi Mueller's 'The Origins of the Arab-Iranian Conflict Nationalism and Sovereignty in the Gulf Between the World Wars' page 40). The nomenclature of 'the Dubai incident' is likely due to some colonial fastidiousness about referring to such a mess with the name of a British ship, much less - please God - being seen to apportion blame in name... Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 04:25, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks Acres of Sand 2 (talk) 06:00, 17 July 2023 (UTC)