Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies: Recent submissions
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Book review: Tusiani, Michael D., and Anne-Marie Johnson. From Black Gold to Frozen Gas: How Qatar Became an Energy Superpower. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023
(Pluto Journals, 19 January 2024)Michael D. Tusiani and Anne-Marie Johnson investigate the story of Qatari wealth, which was primarily derived from oil and gas. With the rise of the importance of gas, from just 2 million metric tons of global demand in ... -
Archiving resistance: A conversation with Dr Omar Sheikhmous
(Brill, 13 June 2024)In this conversation, Omar Sheikhmous (author, researcher, activist, and broadcaster), talks with Farangis Ghaderi (author and academic at the University of Exeter), about his life, involvement with and contributions to ... -
Iran’s water policy: Environmental injustice and peripheral marginalisation
(SAGE Publications, 26 April 2024)Water exhibits various politico-economic dynamic. Water scarcity can lead to conflicts, and it lies at the core of Iran’s environmental crises. The literature on Iran’s water crisis indicates the effects of this issue in ... -
Jin, Jiyan, Azadî and the Historical Erasure of Kurds
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 11 January 2024)Following the murder of Jîna (Mahsa) Amini on September 16, 2022, her parents decided—despite the threats and intimidation by security forces—to hold a public funeral. Protests were ongoing outside Kasra Hospital in Tehran ... -
The Sorcerer Scholar: Sirāj al-Dīn al-Sakkākī between Grammar and Grimoire
(Gerlach Press, 15 June 2023)Sirāj al-Dīn al-Sakkākī is the author of two books—one famous, and one now virtually unknown. If we read his famous work on language, the Miftāḥ al-‘ulūm, in dialogue with his neglected work on magic, the Kitāb al-Shāmil, ...