Titlebook: Counter-Narratives; History, Contemporar Madawi Al-Rasheed (Senior Lecturer in Social Anthr Book 2004 Madawi Al-Rasheed and Robert Vitalis

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Von Andreas Walther zu Helmut Schelskyred to as “the Gulf,” the sea of oil. A vast land area is thereby reduced to a narrow slice of the Gulf coast, a rather curious place where according to most representations atavistic tribalism and Islamic conservativism thrive alongside ultramodern globalism. Only rarely do we step back to look at the whole of the Arabian Peninsula.

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Aramco World: Business and Culture on the Arabian Oil Frontier,cans originally splashed ashore. Once, on the eve of the war in 1939, Àbd al-Àziz had traveled by motorcade from his palace in Riyadh to witness the loading of the first tanker of Saudi crude. As the Americans liked to say, since that time Dhahran had been transformed.

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Seeing Like a Citizen, Acting Like a State: Exemplary Events in Unified Yemen,nth anniversary of national unification on May 22, 2000, including the extraordinary preparations leading up to the event. The third is the public sensation following the arrest and prosecution of a man touted as Yemen’s first bona fide “serial killer,” which occurred during the lead-up to the decennial celebration.

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Book 2004s, and these are found wanting. The authors assess how grand historical narratives such as those produced by states and colonial powers are currently challenged by multiple historical actors, a process which generates alternative narratives about identity, the state and society.

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Introduction,t of all, on television screens, and then dissolve into the ether. Faint shadows of these images may remain for a while—outlines of oil wells and skyscrapers, of foreign ministers and intrepid travelers, of military bases and . the next war or uprising or bombing refreshes them. Then our students, c

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Arabia ,: An Invitation to Arabian Peninsula Studies,East. Known to earlier orientalists and modern cinema fans as “Arabia,” the land of sand and shrine, the Peninsula is nowadays often erroneously referred to as “the Gulf,” the sea of oil. A vast land area is thereby reduced to a narrow slice of the Gulf coast, a rather curious place where according