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  1. Kuwait's Modern Spectacle: Oil Wealth and the Making of a New Capital City, 1950-90
  2. Farah al-Nakib
  3. pp. 7-25
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  1. The Politics and Ideology of Urban Development in Iraq's Oil City: Kirkuk, 1946-58
  2. Arbella Bet-Shlimon
  3. pp. 26-40
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  1. The Oil Town of Ahmadi since 1946: From Colonial Town to Nostalgic City
  2. Reem Alissa
  3. pp. 41-58
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  1. Shaping the Urban Life of Oil in Bahrain: Consumerism, Leisure, and Public Communication in Manama and in the Oil Camps, 1932-1960s
  2. Nelida Fuccaro
  3. pp. 59-74
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  1. The Oil City in Focus: The Cinematic Spaces of Abadan in the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's Persian Story
  2. Mona Damluji
  3. pp. 75-88
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  1. White Drugs in Interwar Egypt: Decadent Pleasures, Emaciated Fellahin, and the Campaign against Drugs
  2. Liat Kozma
  3. pp. 89-101
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  1. Religious Anxieties in Two Marginal Regions: Reformist Debates on Funerary Ritual among Tanzanian and Acehnese Muslims in the Twentieth Century
  2. Felicitas Becker
  3. pp. 102-116
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  1. In the World of Men and beyond It: Thoughts on Sheldon Pollock's The Language of the Gods in the World of Men
  2. Lawrence McCrea
  3. pp. 117-124
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  1. The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958-1988 by Susan Z. Andrade (review)
  2. Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra
  3. pp. 125-126
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  1. Literature and Nationalist Ideology: Writing Histories of Modern Indian Languages ed. by Hans Harder (review)
  2. Kunal Chattopadhyay
  3. pp. 127-129
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  1. Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt by Hibba Abugideiri (review)
  2. Lisa Pollard
  3. pp. 129-130
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  1. "Wicked" Istanbul: The Regulation of Prostitution in the Early Turkish Republic by Mark David Wyers (review)
  2. Kyle T. Evered
  3. pp. 130-132
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  1. Architecture in Translation: Germany, Turkey, and the Modern House by Esra Akcan (review)
  2. Kyle T. Evered
  3. pp. 132-133
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  1. Introduction: Histories of Oil and Urban Modernity in the Middle East
  2. Nelida Fuccaro
  3. pp. 1-6
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  1. Contributors
  3. p. 134
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