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الأدب في زمن النفط: أيام الماعز

Aug 30 2012
[طوابير مزدحمة في معسكر عمال أجانب في دبي]

"منذ تلك اللحظة، بالضبط مثل ذبابة مانيان، بدأ خوف مجهول يغلف عقلي. شك غير منطقي بدأ يتملكني، أن هذه الرحلة لم تكن تقودني إلى حياة الخليج التي كنت أحلم بها وأشتهيها. ذاك الخليج الذي عرفت عنه الكثير من العديد من الأشخاص، لا يشبه ما أراه. يلفحني الخطر، ولا شيء واضح أمامي ." (أيام الماعز، بنيامين، دار نشر بنغوين 2012) لقد خلق زمن النفط مستويات غير مسبوقة من التقييد والقسوة البشرية. وفي الوقت نفسه، فالناس اليوم يسافرون أسرع وفي مجموعات أكبر من أي وقت مضى: والهجرة إلى ...

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Literature in the Oil Age: Goat Days

Jun 27 2012
[Tight lines at Dubai labor camp. Image by author]

From that moment, like the maniyan fly, an unknown fear began to envelop my mind. An irrational doubt began to grip me, a feeling that this journey was not leading me to the Gulf life that I had been dreaming about and craving for. The Gulf I had learned about from so many people was not like this. A whiff of danger. Nothing clear. –Goat Days ...

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Bio

Sarah Waheed

Sarah Waheed is Visiting South Asia Fellow at George Mason University where she teaches in the Department of History, and also teaches at Georgetown University. She has previously taught at Mount Holyoke College. Dr. Waheed completed her PhD in Modern South Asian History from Tufts University (2011). She has taught courses on Islam in South Asia and History of the Indian Ocean. She lives in Washington DC.

The myth of mass Bedouin criminality is foregrounded despite documented evidence that some families were forcibly and illegally displaced by the authorities and had returned, while others had been ordered by the authorities to live and work on the land under question.
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