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Research Facilities in the Arabian Gulf: Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Jill Crystal
Jill Crystal*
Affiliation:
Harvard University
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Social Science Research, especially foreign research, in and on the smaller states of the Arabian Gulf is a very new phenomenon. Only a few serious works on the area have been published in English, leaving an almost limitless opportunity for new research. There is, however, a common misconception that access to these states, at least for American nationals, is strictly limited as it is in neighboring Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. This is not really the case in the sheikhdoms, although it is true that all five states are somewhat wary of research, especially social science research, and the working atmosphere varies from one of relative openness to considerable skepticism. Still, a surprising amount of eminently rewarding research is possible here if one arranges it carefully in advance.

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Research Article
Information
Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , December 1984 , pp. 175 - 181
Copyright
Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America 1984

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References

1 This report is based primarily on a research trip to the Gulf in 1982–83.

2 These include Khuri, Fuad, Tribe and State in Bahrain (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980)Google Scholar; Zahlan, Rosemarie Said, The Origins of the United Arab Emirates (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1978), and The Creation of Qatar (London: Croom Helm, 1979)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Ismael, Jacqueline, Kuwait: Social Change in Historical Perspective (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1982)Google Scholar; Peterson, John, Oman in the Twentieth Century (London: Croom Helm, 1978).Google Scholar

3 Najāt ‘Abdulqādi al Jāsim al Qinā‘ī, Baladiyyat al Kuwait fī khamsīn ‘āmān (Kuwait Municipality, 1980). The author has also written other historical works. There is said to be a large but unorganized number of older documents available in the municipality.

4 For example, ‘Abdulla al Nafīsī, Al Kuwait: al ray al ākhar (London: Taha, 1978).

5 In Kuwait, the University dorm is free to all. As the other Gulf universities open, dorm space will probably be available there too.