... of Qaboos’ nation-building program, a source of legitimacy for his rule, and the urban representation of the state he embodied. Viable modernization required sustainable urbanization. air travel culture infrastructure maritime traditions Mina Qaboos Qaboos Port Muscat museums Mutrah Omani Museum...

... on the ways in which experiences of urban culture, modernity, and the cinema are inextricably linked. This brings into play another aspect of cinematicity, namely that the city from the nineteenth century onwards had become what Gunning calls a ‘hyper-visual zone’ whose inhabitants were bombarded by an array...

...The second chapter centers on novels by Naguib Mafouz, Alaa al-Aswany and Khalid Khalifa. The focus is on Cairo and Aleppo whose features are disappearing as a result of modernization, an anarchic urbanization, and demographic, political and social changes.In a new world, an elderly appearance...

...The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are central to recent influential theories and histories of migration because they saw the rise of urbanization, industrialization, and imperial expansion in the western world. Yet, despite the centrality of the wanderer and exile as a figure...