... Segmented Feminization and the Decline of Neopatriarchy in GCC Countries of the Persian Gulf John Willoughby he labor markets of oil-rich Saudi...

... the with power.however, It was, tribal ofOmani conquestmaintaining and the in tool indispensable ( power military their constituted corps Baluch Beatrice Nicolini Centuries Twentieth and Nineteenth during the The Baluch Role in the Persian Gulf...

...Marral Shamshiri Abstract This article analyzes the material networks, connections, and solidarities formed between revolutionary Iranian and Arab organizations in the Persian Gulf in the 1970s. In the context of decolonization and the Cold War, it explores how the Iranian Left engaged...

...Fahad Ahmad Bishara Abstract This article takes a single genre of the Persian Gulf pearl dive—the chau manual, used to determine the weight-based value of a pearl—and draws on it to think about circulation and commodification in the Indian Ocean world. In reading the chau manual, as well as other...

...Bindu Menon Mannil Abstract Film and media circulation between India and cities on the Persian Gulf can be traced back to the 1940s. This article excavates the histories of media goods that made their way to the strictly regimented and highly taxed regimes of India, examining how these mobilities...

... 35 Gulf trade, while the mints of Media had far less ing, was also known in Iran. From the Achae- Antique output.30 Mints also went into overproduction menid period, sources tell us, the Persians had Touraj...

... (Persia): in Eastern Arabia and Southern Persia; to maintain Native Agent Persian, Arab c.1720s, 1840s?–94 the Pax Britannica on the waters of the Gulf; and to Muscat (Arabia): protect British interests throughout the region. This Native Broker Indian c.1758–1800 analysis reveals a significant...

... conceived and written in the spirit of retrieving from obscurity forgotten histories of early urban modernity and transformation in three areas that played a crucial role in the history of the Middle Eastern oil industry: the Persian Gulf, Iran, and Iraq. Covering the period from the interwar years...

... it turned out there was nothing sinister in the appear- dominant to one where a regional economy that ance of these vessels, they had come there for the stretched from Zanzibar to the head of the Persian rather mundane purpose of buying mangrove wood Gulf predominated. The world he encountered...

... and and illicit trades in modern times. Thomas F. the Persian Gulf, thus redefining Iran’s position McDow’s essay follows the misadventures of Sir in maritime trade. Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi Trade Richard Burton as he set out on his challeng- presented a paper titled “Exoticizing Europe: ing...

... allowed him to create influential films that have earned him the reputation of being a major force in the Iranian New Wave of cinema. The peripheral positionality of the Persian Gulf coastline to Tehran is used to frame the life and legacy of Kurdizadeh, though it does not explain why Kurdizadeh's...

... commons. 22 All along the littoral of the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, and the Arabian Sea we see maritime communities claiming a right to the property that made landfall well into the nineteenth century. 23 Littoral communities might have relied on something like the principle that possession is nine...

... Diplomatie ism and its many guises. comme expérience de l’autre: consuls français au Maghreb 4 For example, J. B. Kelly’s Britain and the Persian Gulf, (1700-1840) (Geneva: Droz, 2002), argues that French and 1795-1880 (Oxford: Oxford University...

...- Persian Gulf, British authorities sought to facilitate solidation of central power after the previous cen- telegraph construction either by supporting local op- tury’s civil wars. Soon after he took the throne, Nasir ponents of the Shah’s government along the periph- al-Din Shah embarked...

... in the Caspian, the area that had been Carnegie Endowment for International Peace — have pushed by the State Department as an alternative to also criticized the economic justification for the Baku- the Persian Gulf has been dismissed as a product of Jeyhan project, urging consideration of Russian...

... Jorge , eds. Portugal, the Persian Gulf, and Safavid Persia . Leuven : Peeters , 2011 . Meri Josef W. The Cult of Saints among Muslims and Jews in Medieval Syria . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2002 . Miran Jonathan . “ Mapping Space and Mobility in the Red Sea Region...

... shore of the Modern ­consciously illustrious kings, Louis XII and XIV, Persian Gulf. This project, which may have been Rudi arguably the proudest one, invited comparative the real objective...

... include director of the Center for Gulf Studies at the Ameri- Histories of City and State in the Persian Gulf: Manama can University of Kuwait. She obtained her PhD in since 1800 (Cambridge University Press, 2009). She is Near and Middle East history from...

... article discusses some aspects of the cultural and social life of oil in Bahrain, the first of the Arab states of the Persian Gulf to experience oil modernization. Concentrating on Manama, Bahrain’s capital city, and on the suburban areas developed by the Bahrain Petroleum Company T...

... East, viz. Libya, Saudi Arabia, and the small sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf. The majority of these workers have come from countries like Egypt, North Yemen, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, which surround the Persian Gulf and have relatively large populations but scarce capital resources. More...