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However, in recent years, after the discovery of oil and establishment of Jubail Industrial City, most Qatifi people tend to work in the oil industry, public services, education and health-care sectors.
Qatif functioned for centuries as the most important trade port in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf. The term Qatif is derived from what translates to "harvest" or "grain", signifying the area's past agricultural history.
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The historic oasis area shows its first archaeological evidence of settlement beginning about BC. The word "Khatty" became the preferred " kenning " for "spear" in traditional poetic writing until the dawn of the modern era, supposedly because the region was famous for spear making, just as "muhannad" "of India " was the preferred kenning for "sword". The older name also survives as the eponym of several well-known local families "Al-Khatti", spelled variously in English.
In the Qarmatians conquered the region with the oases of Qatif and Al-Hasa. They declared themselves independent and reigned from al-Mu'miniya near modern Hofuf until From until the Uyunids ruled the region first from the city of "al-Hasa" predecessor to modern Hofuf and later from Qatif. In the Usfurids rose from Al-Hasa and ruled during the struggle of Qays with the Hormuz for control of the coast. Probably at about this time, Qatif became the main port for the mainland surpassing ' Uqair in importance for the trade and thus became the capital of the Usfurids.

The ruler of Basra extended his power to Qatif in but ultimately in the Ottomans took over , though they could not expel the Portuguese from the island of Bahrain. In the Saudi State was destroyed in the Ottoman-Saudi War and the commander of the mostly Egyptian troops, Ibrahim Pasha , took control of Hofuf, only to evacuate it the next year and return to the west coast.
The Humayd regained control until the Banu Khalid were finally defeated in by the "Second Saudi State" who now took control of the whole region. The Ottomans moved in again in not to be expelled until when Ibn Saud finally established the Saudi rule in the Eastern Province.
The economy of Qatif witnessed a sharp decline in the s, initially due to the invention of cultured pearls which severely impacted the Gulf pearl trade, then due to World War I. The decline was accelerated by a special "Jihad" tax imposed by the Saudis then Sultanate of Nejd , which was used to fund military campaigns.
The economic situation became so dire that many citizens were imprisoned for unpaid taxes, including several wealthy landowners and merchants. Then in , the tax was doubled. Riots broke out in several towns, and a large group escaped to Bahrain and requested protection from the British consul.
The governor of Qatif responded with intimidation and mass imprisonments. Several notables wrote letters to King Abdulaziz voicing their complaints. He eventually met with the governor and some citizens, pardoned past-due taxes, and reduced new taxes. The Shiites have participated in all the strikes and other political demonstrations that have taken place in the kingdom. The most significant were the strikes when the Saudi armed forces were called in. The Shiites in Saudi Arabia were very receptive to Khomeini and demonstrated against the Saudi royal family on the hitherto novel grounds that Islam and hereditary kingship are not compatible.
When American jets landed in Dhahran Air Base for manoeuvres, citizens of Qatif organized a big demonstration. The demonstrators spent the evening of 11 November shouting slogans against the royal family and the Americans. The Saudi government responded by imposing a curfew on all the towns in the Atif area, sealing off the area with tanks and armoured vehicles.
A bloody showdown between the armed forces and the Shiites continued until 30 November , in which thousands were arrested, hundreds injured and 24 killed. On 10 March , in the wake of the Arab Spring and a day before called-for [ by whom? The government declared protests to be illegal and it had previously warned against this action.
The religious sector of the Saudi national curriculum was examined in a report by Freedom House which concluded that "the Saudi public school religious curriculum continues to propagate an ideology of hate toward the 'unbeliever', that is, Christians, Jews, Shiites, Sufis, Sunni Muslims who do not follow Wahhabi doctrine, Hindus , atheists and others". This radical teaching takes place in Saudi funded mosques and madrasas across the Islamic world from Morocco to Pakistan to Indonesia.
According to the educational plan for secondary high school education — Hijri , students enrolling in the "natural sciences" path are required to take five religion subjects which are: Tawhid , Fiqh , Tafseer , Hadith and Islamic Education and Quran. In addition, students are required to take six science subjects which are Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geology and Computer. The approach taken in the Saudi education system has been accused of encouraging Islamic terrorism , leading to reform efforts. It also aims to create an education system which will provide a more secular and vocationally based training.
In , Saudi Arabia ranked 28th worldwide in terms of high-quality research output according to the scientific journal Nature.