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{"title":"All Things Arabia: Arabian Identity and Material Culture","authors":"A. Bounia","doi":"10.1080/21534764.2022.2082800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21534764.2022.2082800","url":null,"abstract":"Archives at St Antony’s College, Oxford, which possesses a unique collection of papers on Oman and its armed forces. Supposedly books like this are subjected to rigorous editorial controls but there are numerous avoidable anomalies, including phrases such as “styptic defence vote” (p. 73), the inconsistent spelling of names (Glen/Glencairn Balfour-Paul rather than Hugh, p. 174, note 105, page 179, note 130) and titles (Peter Tripp was not British ambassador to Jordan, p. 228), and some of the references are not included in the bibliography (Imperial War Museum, p. 97, note 115). As such, this is a book of omissions as much as it is a historic telling and partial and limited as a result.","PeriodicalId":37102,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arabian Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"124 - 126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89773823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"AGAPS Biennial Book Award 2021","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/21534764.2022.2199372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21534764.2022.2199372","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37102,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arabian Studies","volume":"76 1","pages":"129 - 133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83826008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"De-Theocratizing the State? The Debate over the Civil State (Dawla Madaniyya) Model in Saudi Arabia","authors":"Limor Lavie","doi":"10.1080/21534764.2022.2222443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21534764.2022.2222443","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Since the Arab uprisings, the ambiguous notion of a civil state (dawla madaniyya) has been gaining a foothold in many Arab states as the ideal state model, at the official and popular levels. Even Saudi Arabia has heard voices advocating a civil state. Whereas such voices were evident in critical newspaper columns, which raised countercriticism by the Saudi religious orthodoxy during the 2000s and 2010s, recently Crown Prince Muḥammad bin Salmān Āl Saʿūd has been increasingly portrayed in the Saudi media as directing the Kingdom toward a modern Islamic civil state, indicating a possible change in the perception of this concept. This article offers a contextual analysis of the Saudi intellectual polemic on the civil state model, which has been taking place for the past fifteen years, its development, meanings, and prospects. The article will also consider the implications of the long-standing debate over the civil state idea taking place in Egypt on the short-lived Saudi contestation, in an effort to enhance the overall understanding of the conception of the civil state in the Arab world.","PeriodicalId":37102,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arabian Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":"64 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84690178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Āl Saʿūd’s Other Campaign: Propaganda in the Making of the Modern Saudi State, 1918–1932","authors":"Relli Shechter","doi":"10.1080/21534764.2022.2207711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21534764.2022.2207711","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article focuses on the propaganda campaign that advisors to ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Āl Saʿūd (“Ibn Saud”) –– emir, later sultan, of Najd and, later again, king of Najd and Hijaz, and finally king of Saudi Arabia –– engaged in between 1918 and 1932. It argues that this prolonged campaign was as crucial to the establishment of the state as the sultan’s military conquest of the land. I term this a “campaign” because it was a connected attempt, having constant, clear messages emphasising ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz’s positive leadership qualities, his reformist, modernising intent, and a positive representation of Wahhabism. It also disparaged his enemies and emphasised the natural unity of his recently conquered land. The campaign was central to persuading regional and global powers of the viability of ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz’s state-making project, and later, to gaining official diplomatic recognition of the Saudi state. The article studies this unfolding campaign through analysis of autobiographies, memoirs, travel and history books and articles written by ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz’s advisors; critical engagement with recent ample information on these advisors found on Saudi websites and in Saudi history books and the press; and US diplomatic correspondence.","PeriodicalId":37102,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arabian Studies","volume":"223 1","pages":"45 - 63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80006569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Security in the Gulf: Local Militaries before British Withdrawal","authors":"Tancred Bradshaw","doi":"10.1080/21534764.2022.2082801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21534764.2022.2082801","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37102,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arabian Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"122 - 124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80239184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Beyond Exception: New Interpretations of the Arabian Peninsula","authors":"Jörg Matthias Determann","doi":"10.1080/21534764.2022.2082803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21534764.2022.2082803","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37102,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arabian Studies","volume":"106 1","pages":"127 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80663833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Transnational Identity and Foreign Policy: Tribal Identity and the Gulf Crisis","authors":"Abdulla Al-Etaibi","doi":"10.1080/21534764.2022.2225669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21534764.2022.2225669","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The 2017 Gulf crisis has been largely framed as a diplomatic and economic one. However, the involvement of tribal identity in the foreign policy responses of Gulf states also made it a socio-political crisis. This paper adopts role identity theory as a framework for analysing how domestic politics and culture shaped international relations among GCC states during the crisis. According to this framework, tribal identity becomes operative in foreign policy when states can present themselves as fulfilling roles that distinguish them within a regional or international state system. Gulf states adopted new role identities defined in terms of tribe and tribal identity that then shaped the formulation and implementation of their diplomatic policies. During the crisis, Saudi Arabia adopted the role identity of tribe protector to undermine sovereign boundaries. The Qatari government on the other hand adopted the role of national unifier, rejecting tribal identity and ideologies. The implications of mobilising tribes are examined from the regime survival perspective, particularly scrutinising the gradual consolidation of the Qatari national identity to reduce risks posed to the regime.","PeriodicalId":37102,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arabian Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":"84 - 102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76191121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"State Discourses on Women’s Empowerment in Qatar: The “Ideal Qatari Woman” as a Neoliberal Feminist Subject","authors":"Alainna Liloia","doi":"10.1080/21534764.2022.2199371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21534764.2022.2199371","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article analyzes contemporary state discourse on women’s empowerment in Qatar as embodied in state documents, government-run public relations campaigns, and the media output of state-run or state-sanctioned institutions. Through the lens of critical discourse analysis, the article demonstrates how the Qatari state’s political rhetoric conflates women’s professional advancement with national progress and constructs the “ideal Qatari woman” as a neoliberal feminist subject. With particular attention to the rhetoric found in the state-run magazine Q Life, the article argues that the Qatari state is promoting a model of women’s empowerment that merges transnational paradigms of neoliberal feminism with nationalist ideals of loyalty and patriotism and presents the ideal “Qatari woman” as a neoliberal feminist subject who contributes to her state’s national development through her own professional development and fulfillment.","PeriodicalId":37102,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arabian Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"24 - 44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77680520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Oil Men, Territorial Ambitions and Political Agents: From Pearls to Oil in the Trucial States of the Gulf","authors":"J. Peterson","doi":"10.1080/21534764.2022.2082804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21534764.2022.2082804","url":null,"abstract":"It is doubly rewarding when a detailed account of the oil history of what was previously known as the Trucial Coast or Trucial States (and now as the United Arab Emirates) is presented by someone who has himself been a part of that history. David Heard’s painstakingly researched work, Oil Men, Territorial Ambitions and Political Agents, is less a conventional narrative of the history of the pursuit of oil in the Trucial States than a comprehensive synopsis of and comments on reports, letters, maps, and other archival materials produced by oil company executives, British government officials, and local political leaders. The author, who first arrived in Abu Dhabi in 1963 as a petroleum engineer and has lived there ever since, expertly ties the documentary record together with his own observations, anecdotes, and conclusions. He declares in his preface that “My chief aim is to make available to the people of the Emirates and to anyone else who is interested, the reports written by the first ‘oil men’ to come to the Trucial Coast, and which are contained in the company archives” (p. xix). This work is a second installment in the author’s coverage of the subject. Heard’s earlier From Pearls to Oil followed a similar format as this book but focused on an earlier period, running from the inception of the search for oil in the 1920s and 1930s until the outbreak of war in 1939. Heard also subsequently edited two compendia of reports and diaries of oil company representatives involved with the Trucial Coast. The present two-volume work concentrates on the period from 1937–1939, when concession agreements were signed with various rulers of Trucial States, until the end of 1955. The first volume consists of short passages, each with its own title, grouped in a dozen chapters, which are arranged chronologically. The author alternates snippets on Trucial States history, society, and specific locales, with short descriptions of historical events, pen portraits of key people in Abu Dhabi’s oil background, and explanations of oil exploration and drilling techniques. The strength lies in the author’s access to and reliance on the archives of the Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC), enabling him to tell his story in exceeding detail. IPC operated locally under the name of Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast), or PD(TC) for short, which became the Abu Dhabi Petroleum Company in 1960 and then the Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations in 1979. He also draws upon some academic works and especially published memoirs. Volume One also includes a short chronology and a brief bibliography of published works. There are also eight reproductions of maps, consisting of the explorer Wilfred Thesiger’s map of Abu Dhabi shaykhdom as well as company maps of Abu Dhabi, al-Buraymi, Liwa, and Dubai. There are also 22 historic photographs ranging from scenes of Abu Dhabi in the 1940s to","PeriodicalId":37102,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arabian Studies","volume":"46 1","pages":"121 - 122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73280208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Shifting Cyberfeminism and Gendered Activisms in the Gulf: A Saudi Feminist Spring?","authors":"Sahar Khamis","doi":"10.1080/21534764.2022.2207238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21534764.2022.2207238","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This qualitative feminist study sheds light on women’s shifting identities, struggles, and resistances in the most conservative Gulf state, Saudi Arabia, unpacking the shifting socio-political and mediated environments in this country and their impact on gendered activism. Through conducting in-depth interviews with ten Saudi women activists, journalists, and writers, this study investigates Saudi women’s multiple feminisms and activisms, as they are expressed and enacted by different women using the phenomenon of “cyberactivism”, and its sister phenomenon of “cyberfeminism”, to participate in the waves of socio-political transformation in the volatile Gulf region. In discussing how Saudi women are leveraging social media to advance their agendas, amplify their voices, highlight their demands, and enact new forms of leadership, agency, and empowerment, the double-edged sword effect of social media is unpacked. Adopting a postcolonial feminist approach, this study examines the potentials, challenges, and paradoxes of using social media to advance Saudi women’s rights in a rapidly shifting state.","PeriodicalId":37102,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arabian Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":"1 - 23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72523842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}