The Gulf family :  kinship policies and modernity / 
edited by Alanoud Alsharekh. 
 - London :  Saqi in association with London Middle East Institute, SOAS,  2007. 
 - 198 p. :  ill., map ;  21 cm. 
 - SOAS Middle East issues .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Rulers, merchants and shaikhs in Gulf politics / J.E. Peterson --  Transnational merchant families in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Gulf / James Onley --  Changing circumstances : Gulf trading families in the light of free trade agreements, globalization and the WTO / Jean-François Seznec --  The oil boom and its impact on women and families in Saudi Arabia / Salwa al-Khateeb --  Gender, family and the new politics of the 2006 Kuwaiti election / Alanoud Alsharekh --  Family in the kinship state / Ali al-Tarrah --  Struggling for primacy : the ruling family and the state in contemporary Bahrain / Fred H. Lawson --  The family's role in the economy of the kingdom of Bahrain / Shaikha Hind bint Salman al-Khalifa --  Marriage, status and the politics of nationality in Oman / Mandana E. Limbert. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0863566804 (pbk.) 0863566804 9780863566806 9780863566806 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>013736191 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Kinship--Persian Gulf States.<br/>Family policy--Persian Gulf States.<br/>Kinship--Saudi Arabia.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Persian Gulf States--Social life and customs.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.830953