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Popular culture and political identity in the Arab Gulf states / edited by Alanoud Alsharekh & Robert Springborg.

Contributor(s): Series: SOAS Middle East issuesPublication details: London ; Berkeley, Calif. : Saqi ; London : In association with London Middle East Institute SOAS, c2008.Description: 206 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0863566928 (pbk.)
  • 9780863566929 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS247.A134 .P8191 2008
Contents:
Heritage and cultural nationalism in the United Arab Emirates / Fred H. Lawson and Hasan M. al-Naboodah -- Place and space in the memory of United Arab Emirates elders / Nadia Rahman -- The nationalisation of culture: Kuwait's invention of a pearl-diving heritage / Sulayman Khalaf -- An aspect of cultural development in Bahrain: archaeology and the restoration of historical sites / Mohammed A. Alkhozai -- The social and political elements that drive the poetic journey / Nimah Ismail Nawwab -- Sport and identity in the Gulf / Abdullah Baabood -- Media as social matrix in the United Arab Emirates / Nada Mourtada-Sabbah ... [et al.] -- Diversification in Abu Dhabi and Dubai: the impact on national identity and the ruling bargain / Christopher Davidson -- Debates on political reform in the Gulf: the dynamics of liberalising public spaces / Amr Hamzawy -- Gulf societies: coexistence of tradition and modernity / Lubna Ahmed al-Kazi.
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BOOK Beach Library 1 Available VIRTUAITEM 0323612
BOOK Emirates National Library 1 Available VIRTUAITEM 0326298

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-200) and index.

Heritage and cultural nationalism in the United Arab Emirates / Fred H. Lawson and Hasan M. al-Naboodah -- Place and space in the memory of United Arab Emirates elders / Nadia Rahman -- The nationalisation of culture: Kuwait's invention of a pearl-diving heritage / Sulayman Khalaf -- An aspect of cultural development in Bahrain: archaeology and the restoration of historical sites / Mohammed A. Alkhozai -- The social and political elements that drive the poetic journey / Nimah Ismail Nawwab -- Sport and identity in the Gulf / Abdullah Baabood -- Media as social matrix in the United Arab Emirates / Nada Mourtada-Sabbah ... [et al.] -- Diversification in Abu Dhabi and Dubai: the impact on national identity and the ruling bargain / Christopher Davidson -- Debates on political reform in the Gulf: the dynamics of liberalising public spaces / Amr Hamzawy -- Gulf societies: coexistence of tradition and modernity / Lubna Ahmed al-Kazi.

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