While the Arab Gulf states are often portrayed through the familiar lens of the oil world, international diplomacy, tourism attractions, and rapid urbanization, the deeper social and political foundations that sustain them remain comparatively underexplored….
[Book Review] Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East, by Adam Hanieh. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). 304 pages. $32.99 | Reviewed by Javier Guirado…
Sectarianism has become a key issue of both scholarly and political debate over the Middle East in recent years, particularly with war, unrest, and crisis in places like Iraq, Syria and Bahrain. This article focuses…
Marie Juul Petersen, For Humanity or For the Umma? Aid and Islam in Transnational Muslim NGOs, London: Hurst Publishers; 2015, 356 pages, ISBN-13: 978-1849044325, ISBN-10: 1849044325. Reviewed by Nagham El Karhili In her book, Marie…