Author : Marc Owen Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1108471439
From torture to fake news, this book lays out how the Bahrain regime has used political repression and violence to fight social movements.
Author : Ala'a Shehabi
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 18,81 MB
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1783604360
Amid the extensive coverage of the Arab uprisings, the Gulf state of Bahrain has been almost forgotten. Fusing historical and contemporary analysis, Bahrain’s Uprising seeks to fill this gap, examining the ongoing protests and state repression that continues today. Drawing on powerful testimonies, interviews, and conversations from those involved, this broad collection of writings by scholars and activists provides a rarely heard voice of the lived experience of Bahrainis, describing the way in which a sophisticated society, defined by a historical struggle, continues to hamper the efforts of the ruling elite to rebrand itself as a liberal monarchy.
Author : Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 44,10 MB
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136161562
First published in 1995. The author presents this book as a tale of a small and distinct country and an account for its struggle for self-preservation, continued development and progress despite all the challenges it faces in a sensitive part of the world. The author states The 'Bahraini example' provides a living proof that a small productive country can become an important factor in the stability and development of the region in which it exists and thereafter in the entire world.
Author : Andrew Gardner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 20,42 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Bahrain
ISBN : 9780801476020
In City of Strangers, Andrew M. Gardner explores the everyday experiences of workers from India who have migrated to the Bahrain and the sponsorship system, the kafala, under which they labor and upon which they depend for continued employment.
Author : Crawford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 MB
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781138967700
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Nelida Fuccaro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,38 MB
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0521514355
This book examines the political and social life of the Gulf city and its coastline, as exemplified by Manama in Bahrain. Written as an ethnography of space, politics and community, it addresses the changing relationship between urban development, politics and society before and after the discovery of oil.
Author : David Watts
Publisher : Key Publications
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 40,44 MB
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : 9780946219216
An illustrated celebration of the long and rich history of Bahrain's involvement in military and civil aviation.
Author : Rosemarie Said Zahlan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,9 MB
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317291905
The Gulf States are the focus of great international interest – yet their fabulous evolution from pearl-fishing to oil-drilling, their individuality and variety, are screened by a thick cloud of petro-dollars. This book, first published in 1989, tells the story of their formation, their evolution from colonial dependency to statehood, and their transformation by oil. The result is an informed and balanced picture of the political, economic, religious and cultural character of the area. It is also a story of the powerful families and their sheikhs that have had to hurry these states into the modern world; of the interchanging role of political and economic dependence, the influence of the oil industry, the influx of workers from abroad, and the varying forces acting on the Gulf States.
Author : Omar H. AlShehabi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 18,76 MB
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1786072920
Discussions of the Arab world, particularly the Gulf States, increasingly focus on sectarianism and autocratic rule. These features are often attributed to the dominance of monarchs, Islamists, oil, and ‘ancient hatreds’. To understand their rise, however, one has to turn to a largely forgotten but decisive episode with far-reaching repercussions – Bahrain under British colonial rule in the early twentieth century. Drawing on a wealth of previously unexamined Arabic literature as well as British archives, Omar AlShehabi details how sectarianism emerged as a modern phenomenon in Bahrain. He shows how absolutist rule was born in the Gulf, under the tutelage of the British Raj, to counter nationalist and anti-colonial movements tied to the al-Nahda renaissance in the wider Arab world. A groundbreaking work, Contested Modernity challenges us to reconsider not only how we see the Gulf but the Middle East as a whole.
Author : Carola Richter
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 38,33 MB
Release : 2021-03-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1800640625
This volume provides a comparative analysis of media systems in the Arab world, based on criteria informed by the historical, political, social, and economic factors influencing a country’s media. Reaching beyond classical western media system typologies, Arab Media Systems brings together contributions from experts in the field of media in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to provide valuable insights into the heterogeneity of this region’s media systems. It focuses on trends in government stances towards media, media ownership models, technological innovation, and the role of transnational mobility in shaping media structure and practices. Each chapter in the volume traces a specific country’s media – from Lebanon to Morocco – and assesses its media system in terms of historical roots, political and legal frameworks, media economy and ownership patterns, technology and infrastructure, and social factors (including diversity and equality in gender, age, ethnicities, religions, and languages). This book is a welcome contribution to the field of media studies, constituting the only edited collection in recent years to provide a comprehensive and systematic overview of Arab media systems. As such, it will be of great use to students and scholars in media, journalism and communication studies, as well as political scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists with an interest in the MENA region.
