These questions appeared in the first call for papers on the subject of “Pop Culture in the Arabian Peninsula” launched in 2019, which gave way to the 14th issue of Arabian Humanities. At the time, a large body of literature had already been devoted to exploring regional popular culture...
]]>Adam Mestyan describes the forms taken by the “recycling of empire” in the territories of the defeated Ottoman Empire following the First World War. For each of these territories and for the region as a whole, the book’s nine chapters and the afterword review the “modular” reemployment of Islamic concepts, legal codes, administrative structures, economic resources...
]]>This makes Lamya Harub’s critical reflection on ‘energy security’ in the Sultanate of Oman all the more meaningful and interesting. The publication itself is thus original and brings a breath of fresh air to a topic that is in somehow disdained as the private domain of think tanks, journalists and decision makers. Deconstructing ‘Energy Security’ in Oman, the author’s PhD dissertation defended in 2017 in the United Kingdom (and updated for publication), shows that a different approach is possible.
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