1st Edition
The Transnational Middle East People, Places, Borders
Introduction: Transnational Geographies of the Middle East in Times of Globalisation and Uprisings
[Leïla Vignal]
Part I: People on the Move
1. Managing Transnational Labour in the Arab Gulf: External and Internal Dynamics of Migration Politics since the 1950s
[Hélène Thiollet]
2. Transnational Connections between Egypt and the Gulf: The Experiences of Migrants in the Emirates after the Arab Spring
[Delphine Pagès-El Karoui]
3. Pharisees, Tartuffes and Agnostics: Migration and Religious Exchanges between Cairo and the Gulf
[Lucile Gruntz]
4. A Life in Asylum: Sudanese Mobility between Egypt and Israel and the Reconfiguration of Political Structures in the Middle East
[Pauline Brücker]
Part II: Flows, Routes and Borders
5. Gulf Investments in the Middle East: Linking Places, Shaping a Region
[Armelle Choplin and Leïla Vignal]
6. Sinbad the Sailor Revived? Oman and its Indian Ocean Links
[Steffen Wippel]
7. The Routes of Globalisation Between Algeria and Dubai: Local Impact and Regional Change
[Brahim Benlakhlef and Pierre Bergel]
8. Circulating by Default. Yerevan and Erbil, the Backyards of Iranian Mobility
[Amin Moghadam and Serge Weber]
9. The Wartime Emergence of a Transnational Region between Turkey and Syria (2008–2015)
[Benoît Montabone]
Part III: Circulations of Ideas, Models and Culture
10. Arab Cultural Foundations and the Metamorphoses of Pan-Arabism
[Franck Mermier]
11. Youth literature in the Arab Middle East: Creation without Borders?
[Mathilde Chèvre]
12. Beirut-Dubai: Translocal Dynamics and the Production of Alternative Urban Art Districts
[Sophie Brones and Amin Moghadam]
13. Sustainable Urban Development: A Vector of Regional Integration for the Countries of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean?
[Pierre-Arnaud Barthel]
Snapshots
1. Place: The Commercial Neighbourhood of Deira in Dubai: A Supply Site for Algerian Traders
[Brahim Benlakhlef and Pierre Bergel]
2. People: Mamali Shafahi, Mobile Artist and Curator
[Amin Moghadam]
3. Activity: A Princely Dream: Kalimat Publishing in Sharjah
[Mathilde Chèvre]
4. Place: Salalah: Port of the Indian Ocean
[Steffen Wippel]
5. People: Hamma: A Tunisian Trader Buying Stock in Ain Fakroun, Algeria
[Brahim Benlakhlef and Pierre Bergel]
6. Place: Sohar
[Steffen Wippel]
7. Place: The Algerian-Tunisian Border: A Passage for Oil Smugglers
[Brahim Benlakhlef and Pierre Bergel]
Biography
Leïla Vignal is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Rennes-2, France. She is also a Marie Curie Fellow of the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, UK.
