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British Travel-writing on Oman
This book focuses on the images of Oman in British travel writing from 1800 to 1970. In texts that vary from travel accounts to sailors' memoirs, complete travelogues, autobiographies, and letters, it looks at British representations of Oman as a place, people, and culture. The study discusses the current Orientalist debate suggesting alternatives to the dilemma of Orientalism. It also outlines the historical Omani-British relations, and examines the travel accounts written by several British merchants and sailors who stopped in Muscat and other Omani coastal cities in the nineteenth century. Another focus is with the works of travellers who penetrated the Interior of Oman such as James Wellsted and Samuel Miles, and the travellers who explored the southern Oman and the Empty Quarter. Finally the book looks at the last generation of British travellers who were in Oman from 1950 to 1970 employed either by oil companies or the Sultan Said bin Taimur. The gap of knowledge that this book undertakes to fill is that most of the texts under discussion have not been studied in any context.
Oman Under Qaboos
This is an examination of the political, economic and social development of Oman from the accession Sultan Qaboos in a palace coup in 1970 to the promulation of the basic law of 1996. The book argues that the sultanate does not follow the "rentier" model but the patriarchal tradition.
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 35 2005
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 2004.
The Gulf Directory
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Ordinary Writings, Personal Narratives
Historians have often assumed that the lives of the poor and illiterate can never be known because they have left little record of their existence. This book, however, will establish some of the main themes of a new field of historical study: that of 'ordinary writings' - the improvised writings of the poor and the young.
The Arabian Desert in English Travel Writing Since 1950
Broadly this book is about the Arabian desert as the locus of exploration by a long tradition of British travellers that includes T. E. Lawrence and Wilfred Thesiger; more specifically, it is about those who, since 1950, have followed in their literary footsteps. In analysing modern works covering a land greater than the sum of its geographical parts, the discussion identifies outmoded tropes that continue to impinge upon the perception of the Middle East today while recognising that the laboured binaries of “East and West”, “desert and sown”, “noble and savage” have outrun their course. Where, however, only a barren legacy of latent Orientalism may have been expected, the author...
تقويض بابل
تتميّز الإنجليزيّة عن غيرها من اللغات بأنّها لغة العالم الأولى اليوم، فهي اللغة الأمّ لبريطانيا وأمريكا وأستراليا ونيوزيلندا وكندا، واللغة الرسميّة الثانية لدول إفريقيّة مثل نيجيريا وزامبيا، ولدول آسيويّة مثل الهند وسنغافورة؛ وإن لم تكن هذه أو تلك أوليت عناية خاصّة كلغة أجنبيّة في التّعليم والإعلام والعلاقات الدّوليّة، كما هو الحال في عالمنا العربي. ولمّا كانت المكتبة العربيّة...
Oman, Culture and Diplomacy
This book is a cultural history, offering an historical account of the formation of a distinctive Omani culture; arguing that it is in this unique culture that a specific conception and practice of diplomacy has been developed.
Major Companies of the Arab World 1992/93
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