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The ties that bind Africa and the Gulf region have deep historical roots that influence both what Braudel called the longue durée and the short-term events of current policy shifts, market-based economic fluctuations, and global and local political vicissitudes. This book, a collaboration of historians, political scientists, development planners, and a biomedical engineer, explores Arabian-African relationships in their many overlapping dimensions. Thus histories constructed from the "bottom up" -- records of the everyday activities of commerce, intermarriage, and gender roles -- offer an incisive complement to the "top down" histories of dynasties and the elite. Topics such as migration, collective memory, scriptural and oral narratives, and contemporary notions of food security and "soft" power pose new questions about the ties that bind Africa to the Gulf.
Price: £85.00
Pages: 175
Publisher: Gerlach Press
Imprint: Gerlach Press
Publication Date:
30 September 2015
ISBN: 9783940924704
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
Introduction
Dale F. Eickelman and Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
1. Gender and Geography in the Land of Punt
Amira El-Azhary Sonbol
2. The Queen of Sheba in Yemeni and Ethiopian Mythology
Al-Johara Hassan Al-Thani
3. Diasporic Routes: African Passages to the Gulf
Matthew S. Hopper
4. The 1964 Zanzibar Genocide: The Politics of Denial
Abdullahi Ali Ibrahim
5. Gulfrica: Blowing the Horn of Light into Afrabia
Harith Ghassany
6. Neoliberal Challenges and Transnational Lives of Cameroonian Migrants in Dubai
Michaela Pelican
7. Inclusive Growth, Governance of Natural Resources and Sustainable Development in Africa from a Qatari Perspective
Jason J. McSparren, Mohamed Evren Tok,
Timothy M. Shaw, and Hany Besada
8. Qatar’s Food and Water Security: An Evolving Strategy
Daniel C. Stoll
9. Healthy Relationships? GCC Global Health Engagement in Africa
Mariam M. R. Bhacker and Muhammad Hamid Zaman