The country's east and south, the traditional Taliban strongholds, predictably saw the heaviest fighting, but a swath of the north became increasingly restive as well.
The singers were performing to a tough crowd, as restive as any high school assembly.
In the past couple of years, at least four other settlements have renamed themselves after the platinum belt's most restive region as a mark of solidarity.
This summer, Petraeus crafted a campaign to publicize signs of progress he claimed to see in Iraq, and it became clear that he regarded America's restive democracy as a theatre in his counterinsurgency operations.
For decades, Bahrain's relative openness and entrenched inequality have made it one of the Arab world's most restive countries, as a Shiite majority numbering as much as 70 percent of the population seeks more rights from a Sunni monarchy that conquered the island in the 18th century.
After the Iranian revolution in 1979, the Tehran government saw Bahrain's restive Shia as a potential wedge across the Gulf waters, one that might lead to the Shia populations in eastern Saudi Arabia, where most of the kingdom's oil sits.
But donors and board members have grown increasingly restive as the museum, which began as a trail-blazer for the avant-garde, came under repeated fire as a funky emblem of another time.
The Saudis and the Gulf monarchies are under increasing pressure, both from increasingly restive populations as well as the consequences of over-leveraging that has left many of those states unable to support their current spending levels at the current market price of oil.
But the president has chosen to deliver this speech in Cairo, and so he must also address the Egyptian people, who live — like the citizens of virtually all Arab countries — in an authoritarian state, and who have grown increasingly restive as President Hosni Mubarak has snuffed out flickering hopes for change.
