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The Gulf family : kinship policies and modernity / edited by Alanoud Alsharekh.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: SOAS Middle East issuesPublication details: London : Saqi in association with London Middle East Institute, SOAS, 2007.Description: 198 p. : ill., map ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0863566804 (pbk.)
  • 0863566804
  • 9780863566806
  • 9780863566806 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.830953
Contents:
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.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) GN 640 G971 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000116121

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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