Le coucou de Claviers Maysaloon - ميسلون Rimbus le blog Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) - Georgetown University République des blogs Mulhousienne Blog - The Arabist Une Autre Vie Oil Monarchies: Domestic and Security Challenges in the Arab Gulf States Ever since the dust settled after Desert Storm, an assessment of how the oil monarchies of the Arabian Peninsula are faring has been needed. This clear and concise account is the best analysis to date. The author challenges the conventional view of unchanging traditional political systems rooted in tribalism and religion. Oil wealth has brought great change to each of these states, but not quite in the way that some theorists of rentier states assumed. The welfare state that makes few demands on its citizens has not produced passivity and consent, particularly when oil revenues are in decline.
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A Girls' Guide to Saudi Arabia I wanted to know all about Eve. “Our grandmother Eve?” asked Abdullah Hejazi, my boyish-looking guide in Old Jidda. Jidda means “grandmother” in Arabic, and the city may have gotten its name because tradition holds that the grandmother of all temptresses, the biblical Eve, is buried here—an apt symbol for a country that legally, sexually, and sartorially buries its women alive. When I suggested we visit, Abdullah smiled with sweet exasperation. “Women are not allowed to go into cemeteries,” he told me. I had visited Saudi Arabia twice before, and knew it was the hardest place on earth for a woman to negotiate. “Can they go in if they’re dead? “Women can be buried there,” he conceded, “but you are not allowed to go in and look into it.” So I can only see a dead woman if I’m a dead woman? No wonder they call this the Forbidden Country. Hello—and Good-Bye! The news cut to the very character of the Saudi state. Now, six years later, the Saudis are trying yet again.
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