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Arabia Incognita : Dispatches from Yemen and the Gulf.

MERIP. (Author). Carapico, Sheila. (Added Author).

Summary:

Annotation Yemen is an intriguing, strategically located country that is the perennial "poor relation" of the wealthy oil monarchies of the Arabian Peninsula and has been plagued by deadly conflict since early 2015. In 2011, it saw a broad eruption of the mass protests associated with the "Arab Spring". But four years later, that popular movement was largely over-run by a series of deadly conflicts, stoked from outside by a lengthy, lethal military intervention led by neighboring Saudi Arabia. Arabia Incognita helps readers understand Yemens unfolding crisis by tracing the countrys modern history from the strong anti-imperial movement of the 1960s through the present complex of conflicts. The "dispatches" in this anthology, originally published in Middle East Report, w ere chosen by renowned Yemen expert Dr. Sheila Carapico. Arabia Incognita is published in collaboration with the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP), which has published Middle East Report since 1971

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ISBN: 9781935982944
ISBN: 193598294X
ISBN: 9781935982920
ISBN: 1935982923
Physical Description: 1 online resource (302 pages)
Publisher: Charlottesville : Just World Books, 2016.

Content descriptions

General Note:	8: Yemen's Implosions, 2014.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Front Cover; Praise for Arabia Incognita; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Contents; Editor's Note; Introduction; 1: The Arabian Peninsula, 1958-85; The Gulf between Two Revolutions, 1958-79 -- Fred Halliday; Insurrection at Mecca -- Jim Paul; Prospects for the Gulf -- Joe Stork; 2: Cold War and Unification in Two Yemens; North Yemen Today -- Fred Halliday; Catastrophe in South Yemen: A Preliminary Assessment -- Fred Halliday; A Tale of Two Families: Change in North Yemen, 1977-89 -- Sheila Carapico and Cynthia Myntti; The Economic Dimension of Yemeni Unity -- Sheila Carapico. 3: Yemen After Unification: Elections and Civil WarYemen: Unification and the Gulf War -- Sheila Carapico; Yemeni Workers Come Home: Reabsorbing One Million Migrants -- Thomas Stevenson; Elections and Mass Politics -- Sheila Carapico; The Yemeni Elections Up Close -- Renaud Detalle; From Ballot Box to Battlefield: The War of the Two 'Alis -- Sheila Carapico; 4: Modern Political Islam in the Arabian Peninsula; Islam and the Theology of Power: Wahhabism and Salafism -- Khaled Abou El Fadl; A Clash of Fundamentalisms: Wahhabism in Yemen -- Shelagh Weir. Yemen and the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army Sheila CarapicoUnderstanding Political Dissent in Saudi Arabia -- Gwenn Okruhlik; Local Conflict, Global Spin: An Uprising in the Yemeni Highlands -- Iris Glosemeyer; The Iraq Effect in Saudi Arabia -- Toby Jones; The Shi'a of Saudi Arabia at a Crossroads -- Toby Matthiesen; 5: Water, Oil and Workers; The Ghosts of American Camp -- Robert Vitalis; Speaking of Water George -- R. Trumbull IV; Saudi Alchemy: Water into Oil, Oil into Water -- Toby Jones; Water Conflict and Cooperation in Yemen -- Gerhard Lichtenthaeler; Yemenis on Mars -- Engseng Ho. 6: The Roots and Course of the 2011 UprisingsForeboding about the Future in Yemen -- Sarah Phillips; The Snake with a Thousand Heads: The Southern Cause in Yemen -- Susanne Dahlgren; No Pink Slip for Salih: What Yemen's Protests Do (and Do Not) Mean -- Stacey Philbrick Yadav; No Exit: Yemen's Existential Crisis -- Sheila Carapico; Tawakkul Karman as Cause and Effect Stacey -- Philbrick Yadav; Looking for Revolution in Kuwait -- Mary Ann Tétreault; Ansar al-Shari'a -- Sheila Carapico; Collective Frustration, but No Collective Action, in Qatar -- Justin Gengler. Demonstrators, Dialogues, Drones and Dialectics -- Sheila Carapico7: America's Deep Engagement; America's Sawt al-Saud -- Al Miskin; Investigating the Cole Bombing -- Charles Schmitz; Washington's New Arms Bazaar -- Sean L. Yom; Embracing Crisis in the Gulf -- Toby Jones; Rules of Engagement -- Sheila Carapico; Secret US Bases? -- Sheila Carapico; Of Dangling Bodies -- Al Miskin; Stuck (or Not) in a "Special Relationship" -- Toby Jones; Romancing the Throne -- Sheila Carapico; What About 'Abd al-Rahman al-Awlaqi? -- Lisa Hajjar; Obama's Firing Range in Arabia -- Chris Toensing.
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