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Contemporary Qatar
Edited books are challenging to summarize, this post surveys some of the chapters and key points that stood out to me in this new collection, Contemporary Qatar (2021), edited by Zweiri and Al Qawasmi. Ch 1 outlines the challenges experienced by the new state, often driven by external actors but which slowed the process of state building, which […]
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Policy-Making in a Transformative State
Edited collections are challenging to write about and review, with the chapters covering diverse areas / topics and each offering unique data and perspectives. One unique edited collection on Qatar is Policy-Making in a Transformative State: The Case of Qatar, edited by M. E. Tok, L. R. M. Alkhater and L. Pal (2016). The book is over 400 […]
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Qatar: A Modern History
Other than a short publication from 1979, there are few academic books on the history of Qatar. After spending a year in Qatar, at Qatar University, Allen Fromherz wrote ‘Qatar: A Modern History’. The book was originally published in 2012, (Kamrava’s book is 2013) however, the updated version (published in 2017) provides updates throughout the […]
Reading Qatar
Qatar National Library The Creation of Qatar (1979) Zahlan Histoire et Changements Sociaux au Qatar (1982) Montigny-Kozlowska Oil and Politics in the Gulf (1990) Crystal The Ottoman Gulf (1997) Anscombe The Emergence of Qatar (2005) Rahman Qatar, A Modern History (2012, 2017) Fromherz Jassim the Leader (2012) Mohamed al-Thani Qatar – Politics and the Challenges […]
The Doha Experiment
There is a reason why some books are published by academic publishers, and others not. Academic books are peer reviewed and are held to a standard of quality (usually). Retired professor Gary Wasserman’s book, “Doha Experiment: Arab Kingdom, Catholic College, Jewish Teacher” (2017), was not published by an academic press, he opted for Skyhorse (known for […]
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Changing Qatar
Geoff Harkness attempts to offer a sort of primer on Qatar in “Changing Qatar: Culture, Citizenship, and Rapid Modernization” (2020), published by NYU Press. The book reads like a mixture between Wikipedia pages and a Lonely Planet travel guide. One review of the book, by Daniel Martin Varisco, felt it more reflective of journalism than academic […]
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Teach for Arabia
After some politically-oriented books on Qatar, I was pleased to find Neha Vora’s “Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar” (2019). The book takes a quasi ethnographic approach to Education City (individual interviews and personal experience) and the author is reflexive about a wide range of topics and experiences. “Field” research was conducted […]
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Warriors in a Time of Sacrifice
Ambassador of Panama to the State of Qatar, Oreste Del Rio Sandoval, prepared a paper for a presentation made at Camilo Jose Cela University, Spain, on his experience in Qatar. The work turned into a book, titled ‘Warriors in a Time of Sacrifice’ (2019), published by Lusail. The title draws from a line in the national […]
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Small State, Big Politics
Professor of Government at Georgetown University in Qatar, Mehran Kamrava, penned one of the most read / taught books on Qatar in 2013 (with a 2015 adding an updated Preface): Qatar: Small State, Big Politics. Having read a few books on Qatar, this is one of the best, although increasingly dated (the content essentially up […]
The Global Majlis
Career diplomat and current State Minister Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari wrote “The Global Majlis” (arabic 2015, translation 2016) as an “intellectual autobiography”. The book draws on reflections from his work in Syria, Lebanon, France and the US, as well as in Qatar (published by HBKU press). Culture emerges as a key thread throughout the book, as […]
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Logan Cochrane
Logan is a Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last twenty years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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