...Nelida Fuccaro Fuccaro’s article explores new geographies of leisure and consumption that emerged in Manama and in Bahrain’s oil camps in the first decades of oil development. New forms of public communication such as the press, printed materials, and cinema are used to explore urban spaces, actors...

...Mona Damluji As the most widely circulated cinematic portrait of Abadan under full administration of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), the AIOC film Persian Story offers an exceptional opportunity to examine the ways in which the British company linked the idea of modernity to the image...

... and Kaveh Ehsani for their help and comments. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Introduction Histories of Oil and Urban Modernity in the Middle East Nelida Fuccaro...

... the demolished pre-oil town during the first three decades of oil urbanization was more of a spectacle than a lived reality. Although the state exerted much effort and expense between 1951 and 1971 in planning for the development of a capital city to celebrate Kuwait’s newfound prosperity and progress, certain...

...Arbella Bet-Shlimon Bet-Shlimon’s article considers the question of how, in the urban arena of Kirkuk, oil acted as a catalyst for development projects in which political, economic, and ideological threads were inextricably intertwined. It contends that the presence of oil in Kirkuk created certain...

...Reem Alissa This article highlights the role of oil as an agent of political, social, and cultural change at the level of the everyday urban experience by introducing the company town as a modern architectural and urban prototype that has been largely neglected in the study of the Middle East...

...Kamrouz Pirouz After becoming prime minister for the second time, and having won the oil nationalization case at the World Court, Muhammad Musaddiq was hopeful that the British would be more compromising in their approach toward the oil nationalization issue. He was also hopeful of the American...

...Kamrouz Pirouz Iran's Oil Nationalization: Musaddiq at the United Nations and His Negotiations with George McGhee - Kamrouz Pirouz Faced with Iran’s oil nationalization and takeover of the Nationalist China joined in opposition...

... local government councils covering the last seven decades. The political settlements that have arisen through different conjunctures and across the turbulent history of oil busts and booms need to be clearly explicated if both state effects and the political work of corruption claims are to be fully...

... forces and their opposition to all that the West represented, including Western secular values; (3) the formation of the state of Israel and Zionism , which continued to represent the viscous face of occupation and the misrepresentation of secularism; and (4) oil and the Saudi-backed Wahhabi movement...

... with his dismissal as the Iranian minister counselor in Paris in 1934 — shows him as a mature politician, no longer idealistic but still hoping to contribute to Iran’s sociopolitical development under Reza Shah Pahlavi’s new regime. It is in this phase that he signs the Anglo-Iranian oil agreement of 1933...

..., there was a projects, the Baku-Jeyhan oil pipeline and the Trans- great deal of ground to speculate on future develop- Caspian gas pipeline from Turkmenistan, never made ments. Of late, Caspian scholarship is getting increas- obvious economic sense. ingly difficult and unrewarding because what needs...

... Jafar land. One of the most lucrative enterprises has been oil Jabbarly Square across the railway terminal in central Baku. smuggling, in tankers that run to Georgia, Turkey, Ukraine, The square, like similar sites in all Azeri cities, has been trans- Russia, and even to Armenia, earning millions...

...- pendence approached. The southern element in Ni- covery of oil in eastern Nigeria. The oil discovery gerian nationalism was perceived as subversive, and led to a separatism claim from the eastern people, especially the Ibo, who claimed the independence...

... housing areas (or “slums”) in Riyadh and the country's major cities. The Al Saud feared unrest in a time of mass politics, as unionization efforts and strikes continued on the oil fields, and Arab nationalism and socialism spread among students and army personnel. For prince Salman, then governor...

...Valentine Moghadam Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia , by Ahmed Rashid. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. 274 pages, including Index, Notes, appendices The Taliban: War, Religion, and the New Order in Afghanistan , by Peter Marsden. London: Zed Books...

... Christopher . Oil Revolution: Anticolonial Elites, Sovereign Rights, and the Economic Culture of Decolonization . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2017 . Gelvin James L. “ American Global Economic Policy and the Civic Order in the Middle East .” In Is There a Middle East...

..., and the by promoting economic development. This university chancellor, Ahmad Farhad, resigned intensified effort had the deleterious effect of his post to protest the attack. Amini denied any boosting inflation and the cost of living. As oil role in the repression and six...

..., Berkeley. Her disserta- master’s degree in architecture from Tulane Univer- tion, titled “Petroleum’s Promise: The Image World sity, a master’s in landscape architecture as well as a of Oil, National Development and Modernity in the master’s of architecture in urban...

... of the sea into territory or exclusive economic zones makes the natural bounty of the earth into extractive resources of a given nation-state. Today, more than a quarter of the world's supply of oil and gas is produced in offshore fields. 23 The discovery of subsea and offshore oil deposits...