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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 412–426.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Mohammed Alsudairi Abstract During the course of the Cold War, Saudi Arabia cultivated close relations with the anti-communist states of East Asia. This development, this article argues, was driven by the shared positional marginality experienced by these actors vis-à-vis the Third World bloc...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 471–484.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Janice Hyeju Jeong Abstract This article focuses on the geopolitical backdrop and the dynamics of state-private partnerships that shaped the migrations of hundreds of thousands of Korean workers who sojourned for two to three years in infrastructural construction sites across Saudi Arabia between...
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Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 1. Flags of South Korea, Saudi Arabia, the New Community Movement, and Samwhan Corporation at Samwhan international headquarters, Jeddah. Samwhan samshibonyŏnsa [Thirty-five-year history of Samwhan] (Seoul: samwhan kiŏp chushik'oesa, 1979), 914.
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (1): 88–105.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Natalie Koch Abstract In 2014 the largest dairy company in the Middle East, Almarai, purchased a farm near Vicksburg, Arizona, to grow alfalfa as feed for cattle in Saudi Arabia. Almarai is headquartered at Al Kharj farms, just outside of Riyadh, where it has a herd of more than 93,000 milk cows...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 398–411.
Published: 01 December 2023
... scholar both prior to and in the early years of the Cold War reveals important precedents that shed light on Saudi Arabia's strategic policy at the height of the Cold War. Barely remembered as the Saudi author of a Salafi da‘wa pamphlet, Muhammad Sultan al-Ma‘sumi al-Khujandi's (1880–1961) legacy stands...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 622–632.
Published: 01 December 2012
... the modern nation-state of Saudi Arabia, it is also a product that omits not only the Ottoman imperial voice but also the many voices and collective memories of those who might be said to have been marginalized and/or victimized by the early Wahhabi movement as it attacked Shiites and others in Karbala...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 111–115.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Simon Jackson Abstract This essay introduces a special section dedicated to examining the history and culture of automobility, considering a quartet of essays on Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya and Algeria, and Syria. Jumping off from the work of Palestinian artist Jumana Manna to examine the motor...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (1): 83–94.
Published: 01 May 2007
... constituted Wahhabism, the offi cial religion of
after ibn al-Wahhab had succeeded in exerting Saudi Arabia. In fact, its proliferation has been
his infl uence throughout the Arabian Penin- sponsored directly by this kingdom. The term
sula. Salafi sm refers specifi cally to the reform Salafi has...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (1): 95–108.
Published: 01 May 2007
... Arabia prides itself on being, or so it calls itself,
the only “truly” Islamic state in the world. Offi cial Saudi Islam, or what is commonly
referred to as “Wahhabism,” is the outcome of the movement led in the eighteenth century by
Muhammad bin ‘Abdul Wahhab (1703–91), who, along...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 309–321.
Published: 01 December 2023
... 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 hajj Afro-Arab relations Cold War international aid Each year, Saudi Arabia hosts over two million pilgrims from an estimated 180 countries. The majority of travelers come to perform the most important pilgrimage, hajj , 1 which is the fifth pillar...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 184–199.
Published: 01 May 2008
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© 2008 comments and criticism. I alone am responsible for the argu- Cooperation Council, which has Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar,
ments made in this essay. Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates as its members...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 131–142.
Published: 01 May 2019
... , 2012 . Al-But'hie Ibrahim . “ The Role of Citizens in Defining the Meaning and Quality of Traditional and Modern Built Environment: An Exploratory Study of Al-Riyad, Saudi Arabia .” PhD diss., University of Texas at Austin , 1996 . Al-Duwayri‘at Sulaiman . “ Al-Dawāfi‘ ilā ẓāhira al...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1990) 10 (2): 66–67.
Published: 01 August 1990
... Secretary, IUF, Rampe du Pont-Rouge 8, CH-1213, Petit-Lancy, Geneva, SWITZERLAND).
The Gulfs Forgotten Foreign Legions
Denis MacShane*
American, British, and French soldiers in Saudi lim would permit his daughter to work for a Kuwaiti or
Arabia who bother to buy local newspapers...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (1): 120–123.
Published: 01 May 2011
... and turned
thers of the Wahhabi movement in Saudi Arabia a blind eye to the Islamists’ activities, includ-
and acting indirectly as allies of the Egyptian ing their source of funding and their publicity,
Muslim Brothers...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (1): 175–186.
Published: 01 May 2004
... and Mullah Omar. Terrorist acts in Tunisia,
terpretation by the world’s single super power. The Yemen, and Pakistan in 2002, and in Saudi Arabia in
“War Against Terror,” according to the prominent 2003, have shown that the terrorist network is alive,
American philosopher Richard Rorty, is a doctrine...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 549–555.
Published: 01 December 2014
... .” Jadaliyya , 22 April 2013 . www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/11295/theorizing-the-arabian-peninsula-roundtable_knowle . Anscombe Frederick F. The Ottoman Gulf: The Creation of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar . New York : Columbia University Press , 1997 . Beblawi Hazem...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1996) 16 (1): 55–67.
Published: 01 May 1996
... aspects of some of the less-developed Middle Nora Hamilton, the possibilities of state autonomy
Eastern polities where tribal population is still a sig- from social classes in civil society are substantially
nificant force. In Saudi Arabia, the ruling elite still increased. 1 1
enjoy the support...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 May 2013
... in
has consistently attracted the attention of econo- Saudi Arabia and the smaller Arab countries of the
mists and political scientists. In spite of the general Persian Gulf. In conceptualizing oil as rent, this
recognition that urban change has been the most paradigm has...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 337–342.
Published: 01 December 2023
... of economic development but taking us from North Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, Janice Hyeju Jeong looks at Cold War migration infrastructures between Saudi Arabia and South Korea as formed by an inter-Asian and US network of military, corporate, and state actors. Korean workers who migrated to Saudi Arabia...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 59–74.
Published: 01 May 2013
... in a Moderniz- Saudi Arabia’s Political, Religious, and Media
dred Years of Government Education in Bahrain: ing Society (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, Frontiers, ed. Madawi Al-Rasheed (London:
The First Years) (Beirut: n.p., 1999), chaps. 3 – 5. 1976), 18 – 19, esp. tables 2...
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