Arabia Incognita Dispatches from Yemen and the Gulf. [electronic resource]

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Front Cover; Praise for Arabia Incognita; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Contents; Editor's Note; Introduction; 1: The Arabian Peninsula, 1958-85; The Gulf between Two Revolutions, 1958-79 -- Fred Halliday; Insurrection at Mecca -- Jim Paul; Prospects for the Gulf -- Joe Stork; 2: Cold War and Unification in Two Yemens; North Yemen Today -- Fred Halliday; Catastrophe in South Yemen: A Preliminary Assessment -- Fred Halliday; A Tale of Two Families: Change in North Yemen, 1977-89 -- Sheila Carapico and Cynthia Myntti; The Economic Dimension of Yemeni Unity -- Sheila Carapico

3: Yemen After Unification: Elections and Civil WarYemen: Unification and the Gulf War -- Sheila Carapico; Yemeni Workers Come Home: Reabsorbing One Million Migrants -- Thomas Stevenson; Elections and Mass Politics -- Sheila Carapico; The Yemeni Elections Up Close -- Renaud Detalle; From Ballot Box to Battlefield: The War of the Two 'Alis -- Sheila Carapico; 4: Modern Political Islam in the Arabian Peninsula; Islam and the Theology of Power: Wahhabism and Salafism -- Khaled Abou El Fadl; A Clash of Fundamentalisms: Wahhabism in Yemen -- Shelagh Weir

Yemen and the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army Sheila CarapicoUnderstanding Political Dissent in Saudi Arabia -- Gwenn Okruhlik; Local Conflict, Global Spin: An Uprising in the Yemeni Highlands -- Iris Glosemeyer; The Iraq Effect in Saudi Arabia -- Toby Jones; The Shi'a of Saudi Arabia at a Crossroads -- Toby Matthiesen; 5: Water, Oil and Workers; The Ghosts of American Camp -- Robert Vitalis; Speaking of Water George -- R. Trumbull IV; Saudi Alchemy: Water into Oil, Oil into Water -- Toby Jones; Water Conflict and Cooperation in Yemen -- Gerhard Lichtenthaeler; Yemenis on Mars -- Engseng Ho

6: The Roots and Course of the 2011 UprisingsForeboding about the Future in Yemen -- Sarah Phillips; The Snake with a Thousand Heads: The Southern Cause in Yemen -- Susanne Dahlgren; No Pink Slip for Salih: What Yemen's Protests Do (and Do Not) Mean -- Stacey Philbrick Yadav; No Exit: Yemen's Existential Crisis -- Sheila Carapico; Tawakkul Karman as Cause and Effect Stacey -- Philbrick Yadav; Looking for Revolution in Kuwait -- Mary Ann Tétreault; Ansar al-Shari'a -- Sheila Carapico; Collective Frustration, but No Collective Action, in Qatar -- Justin Gengler

Demonstrators, Dialogues, Drones and Dialectics -- Sheila Carapico7: America's Deep Engagement; America's Sawt al-Saud -- Al Miskin; Investigating the Cole Bombing -- Charles Schmitz; Washington's New Arms Bazaar -- Sean L. Yom; Embracing Crisis in the Gulf -- Toby Jones; Rules of Engagement -- Sheila Carapico; Secret US Bases? -- Sheila Carapico; Of Dangling Bodies -- Al Miskin; Stuck (or Not) in a "Special Relationship" -- Toby Jones; Romancing the Throne -- Sheila Carapico; What About 'Abd al-Rahman al-Awlaqi? -- Lisa Hajjar; Obama's Firing Range in Arabia -- Chris Toensing

8: Yemen's Implosions, 2014

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