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  • Higher Education in the Gulf States

    Shaping Economies, Politics and Culture

    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

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  • Dubai

    Gilded Cage

    by Syed Ali ...
    This revealing portrait of the famously wealthy Persian Gulf city investigates the human cost of its miraculous rise to global prominence.In less than two decades, Dubai has transformed itself from an obscure territory of the United Arab Emirates into a global center for business, tourism, and luxury living. With astonishing skyscrapers and tax-free incomes, its rulers have made Dubai into a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Arab Spring and the Gulf States

    Time to embrace change

    The most challenging question today for the citizens of any country in the Gulf region is whether it is heading in the right direction to become a durable, sustainable system, fully supported by its people and capable of being defended from internal and external threats. In The Arab Spring and the Gulf States, Mohamed A. J. Althani, a former minister in the Qatari government, analyses the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Qatar

    Small State, Big Politics

    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

    $9.99 USD

  • Why Yemen Matters

    A Society in Transition

    by Helen Lackner ...
    Series Book 10 - SOAS Middle East Issues
    In November 2011, an agreement brokered by the GCC brought an end to Yemen's tumultuous uprising. The National Dialogue Conference has opened a window of opportunity for change, bringing Yemen's main political forces together with groups that were politically marginalized. Yet, the risk of collapse is serious, and if Yemen is to remain a viable state, it must address numerous political, social and ... Read more

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  • The Power of Creative Reasoning

    The Ideas and Vision of John Garang

    by Lual A. Deng ...
    Seventy-two percent of South Sudans population is under thirty years of age. It is this generation that must create a new South Sudanese identity that is inclusive of all its nationalities. In The Power of Creative Reasoning, author Lual A. Deng shows how the ideas and concepts touted by Dr. John Garang could facilitate the advancement of the ideals of freedom, liberty, and human dignity.The Power ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Arab Dawn

    Arab Youth and the Demographic Dividend They Will Bring

    by Bessma Momani ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    In the West, news about the Middle East is dominated by an endless stream of reports and commentary about civil war, sectarian violence, religious extremism, and economic stagnation. But do they tell the full story? For instance, who knew that university enrolment in the war-torn Palestinian territories exceeds that of Hong Kong, or that more than a third of Lebanese entrepreneurs are women?Change ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Missions Impossible

    Higher Education and Policymaking in the Arab World

    A rigorous examination of higher education policymaking in the Arab worldNone of the momentous challenges Arab universities face is unique either in kind or degree. Other societies exhibit some of the same pathologies—insufficient resources, high drop-out rates, feeble contributions to research and development, inappropriate skill formation for existing job markets, weak research incentive ... Read more

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  • Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats

    Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia

    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

    $20.89 USD

  • Reinventing the Sheikhdom

    Clan, Power and Patronage in Mohammed bin Zayed's UAE

    Though the Arab Spring has reverberated through the Middle East, largely leaving a path of destruction, the relative calm in the United Arab Emirates has offered a regional roadmap for stability. Domestic changes since 2000 have significantly altered the country’s dynamics, firmly cementing power within Abu Dhabi. While Khalifa bin Zayed succeeded his father as emir of Abu Dhabi and UAE president ... Read more

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  • Big Capital in an Unequal World

    The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan

    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

    $21.89 USD

  • The New Post-oil Arab Gulf

    Managing People and Wealth

    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

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