by Melanie Janet Sindelar
This is part of a series of memos presented as part of a workshop organised by the LSE Middle East Centre on 5 October 2018, looking at national identity and the Emirati state.
What does art have to do with heritage? In the UAE, quite a lot. The country has recently seen a so-called heritage boom, in which the country’s history and identity have […]
by Victoria Hightower
This is part of a series of memos presented as part of a workshop organised by the LSE Middle East Centre on 5 October 2018, looking at national identity and the Emirati state.
Heritage narratives incorporate a struggle over the inclusivity of the past. In the UAE, this struggle is heightened by the country’s relative youth and individual emirates’ historic rivalries. The emirates’ historical autonomy […]
by Courtney Freer
This is the introduction to a series of memos presented as part of a workshop organised by the LSE Middle East Centre on 5 October 2018, looking at national identity and the Emirati state.
Existing literature on state-sponsored or manufactured identity formation tends to focus on historical examples[1] since most states have already undergone this process. The case of the United Arab […]
by Ciara Fitzroy and Vishwesh Sundar
As we await the outcomes of the 24th annual Conference of Parties meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24), the urgency of this matter is becoming ever more apparent. The meeting in Katowice, Poland, began on at the start of the month and runs until 14 December, during which time member […]
by Rana AlMutawa
With a typical Orientalist tone often used in articles discussing the Gulf states, Ziauddin Sardar writes:
The place looks and feels unreal. That’s the conclusion I reach every time I visit a Gulf state. It is not just the Disney World architecture, the obscene display of wealth, the ubiquitous presence of poor migrant labourers, the insidious racism of […]
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