Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21534764.2022.2213508
H. Allawi, T. P. Keenan
Abstract This article discusses the outcomes of a Focus Group thematic analysis that revolved around the topic of using mobile Augmented Reality (AR) technology to help revive the Arabian Souk. The Old Souk of the city of Abu Dhabi was utilized as a case study for revival, using AR for a new form of smart tourism for the city. Major themes revealed both intangible and tangible elements through a variety of shops, products and personal experiences from those who have visited the Old Souk. The themes were then turned into an AR experience, in the form of three-dimensional (3D) computer-aided models, to aid in experiencing the once existing Old Souk on its original site today. This article points to the potential of recreating the Arabian Souk using AR technology as part of the Arabian Gulf’s smart tourism experience.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/21534764.2021.2188664
Aurélie Varrel
Abstract This article presents an alternative narrative about the role of transnational migration in Gulf societies, that was developed in the contemporary art scene. It was presented in 2016–17 in the shape of an exhibition at the third Kochi-Muziris Biennale of Contemporary Art in Kerala, South India and explored how contemporary art can provide a space of freedom to address certain delicate issues in the Gulf context. The exhibition was put on by a collective based in Dubai, but was presented abroad at a Biennale located in the state of Kerala that is famous for its massive outmigration to the Middle East. The article examines how this context of production influenced the contents presented at the Biennale, and considers how it may have been received.
{"title":"Art and Migration to the Gulf: Unpacking the “Binary States, India-UAE” Exhibition at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale","authors":"Aurélie Varrel","doi":"10.1080/21534764.2021.2188664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21534764.2021.2188664","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article presents an alternative narrative about the role of transnational migration in Gulf societies, that was developed in the contemporary art scene. It was presented in 2016–17 in the shape of an exhibition at the third Kochi-Muziris Biennale of Contemporary Art in Kerala, South India and explored how contemporary art can provide a space of freedom to address certain delicate issues in the Gulf context. The exhibition was put on by a collective based in Dubai, but was presented abroad at a Biennale located in the state of Kerala that is famous for its massive outmigration to the Middle East. The article examines how this context of production influenced the contents presented at the Biennale, and considers how it may have been received.","PeriodicalId":37102,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arabian Studies","volume":"69 1","pages":"277 - 288"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74329624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/21534764.2021.2082807
Javier Guirado Alonso
{"title":"Masters of the Pearl: A History of Qatar","authors":"Javier Guirado Alonso","doi":"10.1080/21534764.2021.2082807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21534764.2021.2082807","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37102,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arabian Studies","volume":"11 1","pages":"349 - 350"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73901422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/21534764.2021.2082799
A. Gardner
Abstract This essay commences with an ethnographic sojourn through the Industrial Area, a peripheral zone of the urban landscape in Doha, Qatar that is densely inhabited by low wage migrant laborers. In this segregated urban enclave, I ascertain the openness to alterity and the interactions with difference that connect their experiences to the conceptual legacy of cosmopolitanism. Via a discussion of the segregated experiences of transnational migrants in Doha’s urban landscape, I then stake out a speculative argument for the connection between that segregation and the resulting cosmopolitan conditions. Together, these two assertions explore manifestations of cosmopolitan urbanism in non-Western and non-democratic cities. In the conclusion to this essay, I suggest that we might usefully disentangle our assessment of these cosmopolitan conditions from our sustained critiques of the global landscape of inequality, and turn my attention briefly to the western ethnocentricities that suffuse the analytic lens by which we gauge cosmopolitanism and the city.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/21534764.2021.2082809
R. Saunders
{"title":"Nation-Branding in Practice: The Politics of Promoting Sports, Cities and Universities in Kazakhstan and Qatar","authors":"R. Saunders","doi":"10.1080/21534764.2021.2082809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21534764.2021.2082809","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37102,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arabian Studies","volume":"39 1","pages":"352 - 355"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77542238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/21534764.2021.2198648
A. Moghadam
Abstract The art world is commonly seen as being conducive to the emergence of cosmopolitan spaces and sociabilities. However, this cosmopolitanism cannot be understood without observing the specific characteristics of the field of art and the socio-political context in which it emerges. This article examines how the internationalization and diversification of actors involved in the art scene in Tehran, reconfigures power relations and creates new relationships of interdependence, alignment or domination between actors from diverse social and geographical backgrounds. The focus is on the connections between Dubai and Tehran forged through artistic practices, via the analysis of a key actor: the “cultural entrepreneur”. In this sense, cosmopolitanism is considered both through the individual trajectory of the cultural entrepreneur, strongly anchored in the Iranian national context, and as a characteristic of urban spaces and sociabilities generated by artistic dynamics.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/21534764.2021.2199369
Claire Cosquer
Abstract This article looks at how the highly internationalized context of Abu Dhabi and the benefits of migration intersect for French migrants. It analyzes the tensions surrounding a specific form of the repatriation of the benefits of migration: how these are passed on to children. While French migrants generally receive higher salaries and consolidate dominant class positions in Abu Dhabi, they also have to deal with the remoteness of national structures of social reproduction. Drawing on an ethnographic study of French migrants in Abu Dhabi conducted from October 2015 to May 2016 (participant observation and interviews, n = 70), this article argues that migrants adjust their educational strategies in order to build up a cosmopolitan repertoire and ensure different paths of social reproduction. The article introduces three forms of educational strategies and associated cosmopolitan repertoires and shows how these relate to the parents’ social positions.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/21534764.2021.2082808
Robyn Morse
{"title":"A History of Jeddah: The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries","authors":"Robyn Morse","doi":"10.1080/21534764.2021.2082808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21534764.2021.2082808","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37102,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arabian Studies","volume":"195 1","pages":"350 - 352"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86189995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/21534764.2021.2188665
{"title":"AGAPS Biennial Book Award 2021","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/21534764.2021.2188665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21534764.2021.2188665","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37102,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arabian Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"356 - 360"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87037244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/21534764.2021.2082806
Mohammed Alrmizan
{"title":"Körfez`den Notlar [Notes from the Gulf]","authors":"Mohammed Alrmizan","doi":"10.1080/21534764.2021.2082806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21534764.2021.2082806","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37102,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arabian Studies","volume":"70 1","pages":"347 - 348"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86341433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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