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  • Smugglers, Speculators, and the City in the Ethiopia-Somalia Borderlands

    by Daniel K. Thompson ...
    Series series African Studies
    For a century, the Ethiopian city Jigjiga was known as a dusty hub of cross-border smuggling and a hotbed of rebellion on Ethiopia's eastern frontier. After 2010, it transformed into a post-conflict boomtown, becoming one of Africa's fastest-growing cities and attracting Somali return-migrants from across the globe. This study examines Jigjiga's astonishing transformation through the eyes of its ... Read more

    $110.99 CAD

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  • Qatar

    Small State, Big Politics

    by Mehran Kamrava ...
    The Persian Gulf state of Qatar has fewer than 2 million inhabitants, virtually no potable water, and has been an independent nation only since 1971. Yet its enormous oil and gas wealth has permitted the ruling al Thani family to exert a disproportionately large influence on regional and even international politics. Qatar is, as Mehran Kamrava explains in this knowledgeable and incisive account of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats

    Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia

    by Steffen Hertog ...
    In Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats, the most thorough treatment of the political economy of Saudi Arabia to date, Steffen Hertog uncovers an untold history of how the elite rivalries and whims of half a century ago have shaped today's Saudi state and are reflected in its policies.Starting in the late 1990s, Saudi Arabia embarked on an ambitious reform campaign to remedy its long-term economic ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Social Change in the Gulf Region

    Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Md Mizanur Rahman, Amr Al-Azm ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book, comprising thirty-nine chapters divided into social, cultural, economic, and political spheres, offers a unique opportunity to dive into the complex, dynamic, and sometimes contradictory transformation of Gulf societies in the last few decades. Whilst the Gulf region has at times been seen as impervious to this natural phenomenon of transformation—timeless, never changing, ... Read more

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  • The New Post-oil Arab Gulf

    Managing People and Wealth

    Edited by David Weir, Zeinab Karake-Shalhoub ...
    The sharp increase in oil revenues since 2002 has left the Arab Gulf States with billions of petro-dollars. But how will these countries fare in the post-oil era? The rulers of these states are taking serious measures to ensure the survival of their economies, and indeed their regimes, in a world with scarce mineral resources. This volume explores the extent to which these countries have been and ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Big Capital in an Unequal World

    The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan

    by Rosita Armytage ...
    Series Book 29 - Dislocations
    Inside the hidden lives of the global “1%”, this book examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of Pakistan’s elite.Benefitting from rare access and keen analytical insight, Rosita Armytage’s rich study reveals the daily, even mundane, ways in which elites contribute to and shape the inequality that characterizes the modern world. Operating in a rapidly developing ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Elusive Jannah

    The Somali Diaspora and a Borderless Muslim Identity

    by Cawo M. Abdi ...
    As a Somali working since high school in the United Arab Emirates, Osman considers himself “blessed” to be in a Muslim country, though citizenship, with the security it offers, remains elusive. For Ardo, smuggled out of Somalia to join her husband in South Africa, insecurities are of a more immediate, physical kind, and her economic prospects and legal status are more uncertain. Adam, in the ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan

    by Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili ...
    Despite vast efforts to build the state, profound political order in rural Afghanistan is maintained by self-governing, customary organizations. Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan explores the rules governing these organizations to explain why they can provide public goods. Instead of withering during decades of conflict, customary authority adapted to become more responsive and ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Lives in Limbo

    Syrian Youth in Turkey

    by Maissam Nimer, Ayşen Üstübici, Amal Abdulla, Rebecca Bryant ...
    Series Book 49 - Forced Migration
    More than a decade since the start of the war in Syria, Turkey is home to almost four million of that country’s displaced citizens. Youth is one of the most vulnerable groups within the refugee population, as they struggle with language and education barriers and demands on them to assimilate while retaining their own culture. Lives in Limbo gives voice to the dreams of Syrian youth who have ... Read more

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  • Higher Education in the Gulf States

    Shaping Economies, Politics and Culture

    Edited by Christopher Davidson, Peter Mackenzie Smith ...
    Series Book 7 - SOAS Middle East Issues S.
    Nowhere in the world is university education expanding as rapidly as in the six-member state of the Gulf Cooperation Council. In two generations the region has gone from having the Middle East's least educated population to boasting a younger generation whose educational achievements are approaching Oraginisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) standards. This unique study, with ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon

    Infrastructures, Public Services, and Power

    by Joanne Randa Nucho ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
    What causes violent conflicts around the Middle East? All too often, the answer is sectarianism—popularly viewed as a timeless and intractable force that leads religious groups to conflict. In Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon, Joanne Nucho shows how wrong this perspective can be. Through in-depth research with local governments, NGOs, and political parties in Beirut, she demonstrates how ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • Disrupting Territories

    Land, Commodification & Conflict in Sudan

    Edited by Jörg Gertel, Richard Rottenburg, Sandra Calkins ...
    Nowhere has a range of case studies of Sudan been brought together in a single volume. Given the concern with the growing number and complexity of conflicts in Sudan and South Sudan there is a significant readership in academic circles and from those involved in humanitarian organisations of all kinds. Professor Peter Woodward, University of Reading"A timely contribution to an important set of ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD