This compact, pocket-sized Dubai travel guidebook is ideal for travellers on shorter trips and those trying to make the most of Dubai. It's light, easily portable and comes equipped with a pull-out map. This Dubai guidebook covers: Bur Dubai; Deira; The inner suburbs; Sheikh Zayed Road and Downtown Dubai; Jumeirah; The Burj al Arab and around; The ......
The exciting narrative account--based on interviews, first-person accounts, and official documents--of a group of Marine reservists during 1991's Operation Desert Shield/Storm.
Poems of love and battle by Arabia's legendary warrior From the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent of Islam, come the strident cries of a legendary warrior and poet. The black outcast son of an Arab father and an Ethiopian slave mother, 'Antarah ibn Shaddad struggled to win the recognition of his ......
Abdullah bin 'Abd al-'Aziz (1924-2015) was an unlikely contender for the Saudi throne. His kinship ties within the royal family were weak. Yet he rose to power, finally becoming king in 2005. His main instrument was the Saudi Arabian National Guard (SANG), which he took over in 1963, transforming it into a personal power base and a cornerstone of ......
Labor and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century Persian Gulf
In 1975, Kuwaiti workers orchestrated arguably the most powerful citizen-led movement for noncitizen rights in the history of the Persian Gulf. Their efforts built on decades of wide-ranging struggle over the meanings and outlines of citizenship. During the twentieth century, anticolonial nationalists, pro-democracy reformers, feminists, and labor ......
Museum Politics and the Making of the Louvre Abu Dhabi
Museums often served nationalist and imperialist interests in the past, but the primary force in the 21st century is the market. Museum franchising-exemplified by the Louvre Abu Dhabi-is one of the most visible cases of the increasing entanglement of art and museums with capital interests. Such projects are often touted as global enterprises ......
Mobility, Migration, and the Bordering of the Persian Gulf
For most of their history, the people around the Persian Gulf littoral were socially intertwined and economically interdependent. But the twentieth century ushered in nationalization projects, British imperial intervention, and border regulations, all of which posed challenges to everyday mobility in this oceanic world. Those crossing the water ......
Museum Politics and the Making of the Louvre Abu Dhabi
Museums often served nationalist and imperialist interests in the past, but the primary force in the 21st century is the market. Museum franchising-exemplified by the Louvre Abu Dhabi-is one of the most visible cases of the increasing entanglement of art and museums with capital interests. Such projects are often touted as global enterprises ......
The Heritage State examines the emergence and growth of a tradition of heritage and its preservation in the Arabian Peninsula following decades of the region's marginalization in global heritage debates, largely due to a Eurocentric worldview that prioritizes secular over religious ideas of heritage value and its circulation. Through an ......
