...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...

...Chandana Anusha Abstract The Mundra Port on the Gulf of Kutch in western India is one of India's largest port projects today. This article takes the port-circulated narrative of the coast being a natural harbor as its starting point, to show how fresh water was central to official maritime projects...

...John Willoughby The key argument of this essay is that the increased educational attainment of women who are citizens of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries is leading to noticeable increases in female labor force participation. As a result of this development, the emergence of new labor...

... this composing group ethnic each nevertheless, immemorial; time from community a“globalized” been fact in has Gulf ofthe society The region. particular this concept not is new for this that onemind shouldkeepin aboutglobalization, when talking Consequently, projects. governmental...

... 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...

...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...

... the seas from Alexandria to Bengal via the Gulf of Aden and the imaginary island of Robinson Crusoe, the special section takes a local-historical approach to the development of maritime capitalism that also charts instances of violence that include the enclosure of pastoral commons, the laying siege...

... presidency—had emerged as the likeliest site for an ambitious port development scheme, thanks largely to its intimate relationship with both Colombo and the plantations of Ceylon just across the Gulf of Mannar. Within just a few years, however, this project would be abandoned abruptly after being declared...

...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...

...Jamie Cross The export processing or free trade zones that have been built since the 1960s across Central America and the Caribbean, north Africa and the Gulf states, and South and Southeast Asia have emerged as uniquely charged objects of anticipation—hope, conviction, and anxiety—about...

...James Onley Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 Britain’s Native Agents in Arabia and Persia in the Nineteenth Century1 James Onley This paper examines British imperial involvement in the Gulf region. It analyzes the infrastructure Table 1...

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.... ward behavior of the British resident to the Court of Compared to the Gulf native agents, Kirkpatrick’s Hyderabad, James Achilles Kirkpatrick. Rumors in cultural trajectory went in the opposite direction; Calcutta claimed that Kirkpatrick appeared in public yet, the Scotsman’s case speaks directly...

... 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...

... .” 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...

... 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...

... 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...

..., trade with Somalia, whether between Mombasa or from the Gulf, was the most profitable sector of the dhow trade in 2011–12. To understand how this shift occurred, he insisted that I meet the owners of the Sagar Sanpati . And so, as the Sagar Sanpati left Mombasa for Somalia in September 2011, I...

... that Dubai and Sharjah also feature centrally in Diallo's journey as regional entrepôts and centers of Islamic sociability. The Arabian Gulf is indeed a part of the world in which both Simone's and Tadiar's insights on urban lives strikingly open up to generative analytical possibilities. Diallo was active...

... Abdella . Getting God’s Ear: Women, Islam, and Healing in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf . New York : Columbia University Press , 2000 . Farsy Abdallah Salih . The Shafi’i ‘Ulama of East Africa, c. 1830–1970: A Hagiographic Account . Translated and edited by Pouwels Randall L. . Madison...