An in-depth look at Qatar's migrant workers and the place of skill in the language of control
and power Skill—specifically the distinction between the “skilled” and “unskilled”—is …

7. I have interviewed the descendants of enslaved Africans, visited their communities, and
collected data from local historians and people (some of whom remembered enslaved …

Models of geographical space are empowered by a hard rhetoric that, in suggesting the
concrete stability of the longue durée, lends the aura of geological fixity. But while places …

This essay takes as its focus society in the Persian Gulf over the long term, both before and
after oil. In order to understand the transitions society has gone through, it is necessary to …

Few images are as evocative as the silhouette of the Arab dhow as, under full sail, it tacks to
windward on glittering waters of Red Sea before moving across the face of the rising or …

Abstract The emperor of Ethiopia, Yoḥannǝs IV (r. 1872–89), signed a peace treaty with
Britain in 1884, which ended the Egyptian–Ethiopian war. This treaty was negotiated by …

In contrast with recent scholarship which has focused on the successes of British anti-
slavery measures in the Arabian Peninsula, this paper will contend that British anti-slavery …

Although British colonial officials stationed in Aden and its protectorates wrote much about
slavery and the slave trade, the voices and experiences of enslaved people themselves are …

Het koloniale verleden en het slavernijverleden van Nederland staan de laatste tijd volop in
de belangstelling, in steeds negatievere termen. Na tientallen jaren borstklopperij is de …

Rethinking the history of African enslavement in the western Indian Ocean through the lens
of Iranian cinema From the East African and Red Sea coasts to the Persian Gulf ports of …