An Archival Journey Through The Qatar Peninsula

Author : Sue-Ann Harding
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031038457

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An Archival Journey through the Qatar Peninsula by Sue-Ann Harding Pdf

This book retrieves from the archives people, places and perspectives normally overlooked to tell an original and expansive history of the Qatar Peninsula, paying close attention to landscape and the natural world. The arc of the book moves geographically through the landscape and chronologically through selected sources, drawing on digitised maps, manuscripts, hydrographic surveys, government records, traveller accounts, early photographs, archaeological and ethnographic reports. While these are standard sources recruited by Qatar to tell its own singular, streamlined history, this book is a subversive reading of those sources. It braids together elusive and precarious stories – difficult to find, at risk of being lost, and never before brought together into a single volume – to write a more complicated story of place. Through them, we can reimagine a place that, like many in the world, works hard to control a limited set of stories about itself. Readers who know something about Qatar will be surprised by the book’s nuances and details. Readers who know little or nothing will be drawn in to discover that, even in the most out-of-the-way and inhospitable places, deserts are never empty.

Author : RACHEL. GORDAN
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197694329

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Postwar Stories by RACHEL. GORDAN Pdf

The period immediately following World War II was an era of dramatic transformation for Jews in America. At the start of the 1940s, President Roosevelt had to all but promise that if Americans entered the war, it would not be to save the Jews. By the end of the decade, antisemitism was in decline and Jews were moving toward general acceptance in American society. Drawing on several archives, magazine articles, and nearly-forgotten bestsellers, Postwar Stories examines how Jewish middlebrow literature helped to shape post-Holocaust American Jewish identity. For both Jews and non-Jews accustomed to antisemitic tropes and images, positive depictions of Jews had a normalizing effect. Maybe Jews were just like other Americans, after all. At the same time, anti-antisemitism novels and "Introduction to Judaism" literature helped to popularize the idea of Judaism as an American religion. In the process, these two genres contributed to a new form of Judaism--one that fit within the emerging myth of America as a Judeo-Christian nation, and yet displayed new confidence in revealing Judaism's divergences from Christianity.

Author : Benjamin Reilly
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821445402

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Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula by Benjamin Reilly Pdf

In Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula, Benjamin Reilly illuminates a previously unstudied phenomenon: the large-scale employment of people of African ancestry as slaves in agricultural oases within the Arabian Peninsula. The key to understanding this unusual system, Reilly argues, is the prevalence of malaria within Arabian Peninsula oases and drainage basins, which rendered agricultural lands in Arabia extremely unhealthy for people without genetic or acquired resistance to malarial fevers. In this way, Arabian slave agriculture had unexpected similarities to slavery as practiced in the Caribbean and Brazil. This book synthesizes for the first time a body of historical and ethnographic data about slave-based agriculture in the Arabian Peninsula. Reilly uses an innovative methodology to analyze the limited historical record and a multidisciplinary approach to complicate our understandings of the nature of work in an area that is popularly thought of solely as desert. This work makes significant contributions both to the global literature on slavery and to the environmental history of the Middle East—an area that has thus far received little attention from scholars.

Author : Ahmed Shams
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-07
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781447812838

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Eight Years Wandering In The High Mountains Of Sinai Peninsula: A Tale Of Two Maps by Ahmed Shams Pdf

This book is the first complete geo-based account about the High Mountains of Sinai Peninsula. A series of seventeen expeditions (Phase I: 2000-2008) were conducted to study the geography and human occupation development, providing exclusive highly detailed maps. Between 2010 and 2013 (Phase II), the study has undergone an extensive analysis/modeling process, supervised and sponsored by IMT Institute for Advanced Studies; scientifically collaborating with the EURAC - European Research Academy, towards a global perspective. It is a multidisciplinary geographical account which focuses on a local Bedouin community which inhabits a transitional mountain area of a rich and complex context, reflecting the socioeconomic and geopolitical paradoxes of the Middle East, the decade prior the revolutions of the Arab Spring. It presents a complete image for the local aspects in a keystone Arab state; a state of a significant share: 'the Egyptian National Reforms Revolution of January 25, 2011 CE'.

Author : Lisa Urkevich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135628161

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Music and Traditions of the Arabian Peninsula by Lisa Urkevich Pdf

Music and Traditions of the Arabian Peninsula provides a pioneering overview of folk and traditional urban music, along with dance and rituals, of Saudi Arabia and the Upper Gulf States of Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar. The nineteen chapters introduce variegated regions and subcultures and their rich and dynamic musical arts, many of which heretofore have been unknown beyond local communities. The book contains insightful descriptions of genres, instruments, poetry, and performance practices of the desert heartland (Najd), the Arabian/Persian Gulf shores, the great western cities including Makkah and Medinah, the southwestern mountains, and the hot Red Sea coast. Musical customs of distinctive groups such as Bedouin, seafarers, and regional women are explored. The book is packaged with an audio CD and almost 200 images including a full color photo essay, numerous music transcriptions, a glossary with over 400 specialized terms, and original Arabic script alongside key words to assist with further research. This book provides a much-needed introduction and organizational structure for the diverse and complex musical arts of the region.

Author : David Held,Kristian Ulrichsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136698408

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The Transformation of the Gulf by David Held,Kristian Ulrichsen Pdf

This book examines the political, economic and social transformation of the six member-states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the ways in which these states are both shaping, and being reshaped by, the processes of globalisation. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the volume combines thematic chapters focusing on issues such as globalisation, nationalism and identity, political thinking, and economic diversification and redistributive policymaking with empirical chapters studying specific aspects of reform and change: the emergence of governing markets the rise of Sovereign Wealth Funds Islamic Finance the relationship between energy and sustainability trends in foreign aid donorship, strategic and foreign policy formulation. Contributions from experts in the field provide cutting-edge snapshots of a region in flux and collectively offer a roadmap of its repositioning in the global order, examining the interaction between global processes and internal dynamics of change and resistance that inject new dimensions into debates over the loci of local and global transformations and the manner in which each plays off the other. Situating the Gulf States firmly within their global twenty-first century context, this book will hold particular appeal to theorists of globalisation as well as to scholars of comparative politics, international political economy and area studies.

Author : Laleh Khalili
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786634849

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Sinews of War and Trade by Laleh Khalili Pdf

How shipping is central to the very fabric of global capitalism In our networked world, the realities governing the international movement of freight are easily forgotten. But maritime transport remains the bedrock of trade. Convoys perpetually crisscross the oceans, carrying gas, oil, ore – indeed, every type of consumable and commodity. These movements, though practically invisible, mean that control of the seas is vital in an age when no nation can survive on domestic products alone. Professor and author Laleh Khalili travelled the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean aboard gigantic container ships to investigate the secretive and sometimes dangerous world of maritime trade. What she discovered was strangely disturbing: brutally exploited seafarers enduring loneliness and risking injury to keep the cogs of trade turning. In the Arabian peninsula’s ports, forbidden places encircled by barbed wire and moats of highways, the dockers struggle for benefits and political rights, as they have for generations. Environmental catastrophes threaten with increasing intensity and frequency. Around the oil-trading nations of the Middle East, a history of British colonialism, modern US imperialism, and local autocracies combine to worsen the conditions of modern seafarers, and piracy persists near the Horn of Africa. From her research riding the sea lanes and visiting the major Middle Eastern ports, Khalili has produced a book that exposes the frayed and tense sinews of modern capital, a physical network without which none of our more abstracted webs and systems could operate.

Author : Peter Hulme,Tim Youngs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107494442

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The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing by Peter Hulme,Tim Youngs Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing brings together specialists from anthropology, history, literary and cultural studies to offer a broad and vibrant introduction to travel writing in English between 1500 and the present. This comprehensive introduction to the subject features specially commissioned contributions, including six essays surveying the period's travel writing; a further six focusing on geographical areas of particular interest - Arabia, the Amazon, Tahiti, Ireland, Calcutta, the Congo and California; and three final chapters analysing some of the theoretical and cultural dimensions to this enigmatic and influential genre of writing. Several invaluable tools are also provided, including an extensive list of further reading, and a detailed five-hundred year chronology listing important events and publications. This volume will be of interest to teachers and students alike.

Author : Dr. Khalid Al-Jaber
Publisher : Gulf International Forum
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Media in Qatar by Dr. Khalid Al-Jaber Pdf

Author : Laith A. Jawad
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1377 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030515065

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The Arabian Seas: Biodiversity, Environmental Challenges and Conservation Measures by Laith A. Jawad Pdf

The Arabian Seas Marine Region encompasses marine areas from Djibouti to Pakistan, including the northern part of Somalia, the Red Sea, the Arabian/Persian Gulf, and parts of the Arabian Sea. Human pressures on the coastal and marine environments are evident throughout the region, and have resulted in harmful environmental effects. Oil and domestic, urban and industrial pollutants in several areas of this part of the world have caused local habitat degradation, eutrophication and algal blooms. Further, coastal landfill, dredging, and sedimentation, as well as nutrient and sediment runoff from phosphate mining, agriculture and grazing, and reduction in freshwater seepage due to groundwater extraction are all contributing to the degradation of coastal environments. This book discusses aspects not covered in other books on the region, which largely focus on marine biodiversity, and examines several environmental challenges that are often ignored, but which have a significant impact on the environment. Evaluating the status quo, it also recommends conservation measures and examines the abiotic factors that play a major main role in the environmental changes. Lastly, the book addresses the biodiversity of the area, providing a general context for the conservation and management measures discussed.

Author : Richard N. Schofield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : IND:30000027224348

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Kuwait and Iraq by Richard N. Schofield Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3126 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022597087

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Subject Guide to Books in Print by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anita L. P. Burdett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Arabian Peninsula
ISBN : STANFORD:36105126878441

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The Slave Trade Into Arabia 1820-1973: 1948-1956 by Anita L. P. Burdett Pdf

Author : Bayard Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Travels in Arabia by Bayard Taylor Pdf

Author : Madawi Al-Rasheed
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Arabian Gulf Region
ISBN : 9780415331357

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Transnational Connections and the Arab Gulf by Madawi Al-Rasheed Pdf

This book challenges the definitions of globalisation and transnationalism as a one way process generated mainly by the Western World and the view that the latter is a twentieth century phenomenon.