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Arabian Oasis City: The Transformation of 'Unayzah

Arabian Oasis City: The Transformation of 'Unayzah

Altorki, Soraya

Paperback

Series: Cmes Modern Middle East

General Middle East

ISBN10: 0292785186
ISBN13: 9780292785182
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Jul 1 1989
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Vast social change has occurred in the Middle East since the oil boom of the mid-1970s. As the first anthropological study of an urban community in Saudi Arabia since that oil boom, Arabian Oasis City is also the first to document those changes.

Based on extensive interviews and participant observation with both men and women, the authors record and analyze the transformation that has occurred in this ancient oasis city throughout the twentieth century: the creation of the present Saudi Arabian state and of a new national economy based on the export of oil and the economic boom brought about by the dramatic increases in the price of oil following the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War. In addition, the authors reveal the changes brought about by the fall in the price of oil beginning in 1982 and analyze the problems confronting 'Unayzah in its aftermath.

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