Early Islamic Textiles from Along the Silk Road: The Al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait
Автор: Giovanni Curatola Название: Al-Fann: Art from the Islamic Civilization From the al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait (Arabic Edition) ISBN: 8857237044 ISBN-13(EAN): 9788857237046 Издательство: Thames & Hudson Рейтинг: Цена: 60500.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: With the passage of the Post-9/11 GI Bill in 2008, more than 1.4 million service members and their families became eligible for higher education benefits. This collection presents findings from the second wave of research about student veterans, with a focus on data-driven evidence of academic success factors, including persistence, retention, degree completion, and employment after college.
Автор: Al-Sabah Souad M Название: Abdullah Mubarak Al-Sabah ISBN: 1780764332 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780764337 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 63360.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Sheikh Mubarak was the founder of the modern state of Kuwait. But the man who actually led Kuwait to modernity was his son Abdullah Mubarak Al-Sabah, one of the most significant figures of Kuwait from the 1940s to Kuwaiti independence in 1961. Largely responsible for the creation of the Kuwaiti defence forces, Abdullah Mubarak Al-Sabah made a point of prioritising what he saw to be Kuwait's national interests in the face of British, American and Iranian pressures during a crucial period of change. He developed carefully crafted, cautious relations with foreign oil companies and secured Kuwait's economic standing through his driven and single-minded policies. The author here presents this part-biography, part-history of modern Kuwait, with fresh new research and insights. From America's drive to build stronger connections in the region in the 1950s, when both the Cold War and Arab nationalisms were in full play, to sensitive diplomatic issues such as water, border disputes and difficult interactions with Iraq, especially following the 1958 revolution of Abd al-Karim Qasim, the author examines Kuwait's relations with its neighbours and the West, and the role played by this pivotal figure in the country's history and development. This book makes a significant contribution to understanding the complex politics of modern Kuwait and the recent history of the Gulf States.
Автор: Noziglia Jr. Commander Usn (Ret) R. E., Folden Cassidy Название: Free Kuwait: My Adventures with the Kuwaiti Air Force in Operation Desert Storm and the Last Combat Missions of the A-4 Skyhawk ISBN: 1640968660 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781640968660 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 21110.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: US Naval Aviator is sent to the desert during the first Gulf War to rebuild the Kuwaiti Air Force and get it combat ready in time for the Operation Desert Storm air war.
Автор: Loomis Craig Название: The Salmiya Collection: Stories of the Life and Times of Modern Kuwait ISBN: 0815610149 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815610144 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 17550.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This is a grouping of some 40 short stories that attempts to capture the essence of everyday life in the small Middle East country of Kuwait. The stories explore life in Kuwait from an American expatriate`s perspective.
Автор: Claire Beaugrand Название: Stateless in the Gulf: Migration, Nationality and Society in Kuwait ISBN: 1788318021 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788318020 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 31670.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Kuwaiti population includes around 100,000 people - approximately 10 per cent of the Kuwaiti nationals -whose legal status is contested. Often considered `stateless', they have come to be known in Kuwait as biduns, from `bidun jinsiyya', which means literally `without nationality' in Arabic. As long-term residents with close geographical ties and intimate cultural links to the emirate, the biduns claim that they are entitled to Kuwaiti nationality because they have no other. But since 1986 the State of Kuwait, has considered them `illegal residents' on Kuwaiti territory. As a result, the biduns have been denied civil and human rights and treated as undocumented migrants, with no access to employment, health, education or official birth and death certificates. It was only after the first-ever bidun protest in 2011, that the government softened restrictions imposed upon them. Claire Beaugrand argues here that, far from being an anomaly, the position of the biduns is of central importance to the understanding of state formation processes in the Gulf countries, and the ways in which identity and the boundaries of nationality are negotiated and concretely enacted.
Автор: Rivka Azoulay Название: Kuwait and Al-Sabah: Tribal Politics and Power in an Oil State ISBN: 1838605053 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781838605056 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 105600.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
The Emirate of Kuwait hardly resembles the city-State it was at the start of the 20th century. The discovery of oil in 1938 rapidly transformed the tiny tribal sheikhdom of the Al-Sabah into a modern oil-producing state where, by the early 1980s, citizens enjoying one of the highest standards of living in the world. While much has been written on the reasons why and how the Al-Sabah became a ruling dynasty, little is known about the nature of their authority and its relationship to Kuwait's social structure. Rivka Azoulay shows how despite the rapidity of change in the oil-rich, family-run emirate, it is the pre-oil dynamics of social and political life that dictate how society operates. The book starts with an analysis of pre-oil society in Kuwait by focusing on the ruling elite's relationship with its periphery. It then provides an account of the fundamentals of the Al-Sabah's authority structure since the mid-19th century and regime-society relations following Kuwait's consolidation into an oil state. The last part looks at the rise of previously marginalized tribesmen in politics since the invasion and how their emancipation transcends the divisions between Kuwait's traditional social groups (hadar, Shia and badu) and represents a broader middle-class struggle. Rivka Azoulay shows that Kuwait's ambitious diversification plans to reduce oil-dependence by 2035 require a renegotiation of the regime's pact with society, which threatens the pre-oil alliances upon which the Al-Sabah's regime has been built. The book makes a new argument about the relationship between the ruling elite and the periphery and gets to the heart of the nature of political authority of the Al-Sabah dynasty.
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