Omar Hesham AlShehabi
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5628394 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Omar Hesham AlShehabi |
| NOMBRES | Omar Hesham |
| APELLIDO | AlShehabi |
| FIRMA | ALSHEHABI O H |
| AFILIACIONES | Gulf University for Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4417-4347 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 62 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Labour importism
This article explores labour importism (LI) as a process of labour provisioning whose organising principle is the importation of temporary migrant workers. The analysis is developed around the Arab Gulf States (AGS), the most notable cases of LI in the post-war era. To begin, LI is fleshed out through a ‘history of the present’ genealogy that excavates archival material of the British colonial bureaucracy, the first to systematically administer L…
Deferred Discounts in Financial Exchange Contracts–A Foundational Legal Study
Objectives: This research aims to establish the juristic foundation of deferred discounts in contemporary and renewed financial exchange contracts. It typologizes the various forms of these discounts based on their contractual conditions and examines whether the discount constitutes a form of compensation (such as subscription fees exceeding mere administrative costs) or whether it is subject to conditions that do not entail direct compensation f…
The Political Commodity
This article explores Abdulrahman Munif’s nonfiction Arabic writings on American oil relations in the Middle East. It begins by outlining his historiography of the US oil presence and its periodization from the start of the 20th century to the early 1970s. It then focuses on his analysis of contemporaneous developments during the 1970s, a period which he saw as historically defining in realigning global relations. The article argues that he emplo…
Policing labour in empire
This study traces the modern origins of the Kafala migrant labour sponsorship system in the Gulf Arab States. The sponsorship system was a product of the British colonial era, particularly the period from the 1920s until independence in the 1970s. Colonial administrators introduced sponsorship requirements in order to control labour migration in the pearl industry shortly before the discovery of oil in the region, and its use was further regulari…
Contested modernity
This study argues that political mobilization based on ethnosectarian identities in Bahrain is a modernist product of the contestations that occurred in the period of increasing British colonial involvement in the early twentieth century. Two concepts are utilized. The first is the colonial ‘ethnosectarian gaze’, marked primarily by its underlying epistemology that saw ethnosectarian cleavages as the main analytic units for approaching local poli…
Unpacking “Accumulation By Dispossession”, “Fictitious Commodification”, and “Fictitious Capital Formation”
We explore the interrelationships between the concepts of fictitious commodities, fictitious capital and accumulation by dispossession. We do so through a detailed examination of the dynamics of land reclamation in the Kingdom of Bahrain during the years 2001–2014. Particularly, we dissect in-depth the ensemble of social relations and chain of events involved in two specific real estate projects, Norana and Bahrain Financial Harbour, that have co…
Transit States
The states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar) form the largest destination for labour migration in the global South. In all of these states, however, the majority of the working population is composed of temporary, migrant workers with no citizenship rights. The cheap and transitory labour power these workers provide has created the prodigious and extraordinary development boom ac…
Radical Transformations and Radical Contestations
This article approaches the developments in Bahrain during the first decade of the twenty-first century through a geographical, historical materialism perspective. It moves away from emphasizing the traditional narratives of events in the island as dominated by identity-based (and particularly sect-based) politics, arguing that the interactions between space, capital, and people over time are also central to explaining local dynamics. It argues t…
Divide and Rule in Bahrain and the Elusive Pursuit for a United Front
This article focuses on the ‘The Constitutive Committee’, the 1971–2 mass-movement to create a general trade union in Bahrain. The first mass-movement after independence, it was also the country’s first public non-sectarian organised movement. Initially a joint effort between ‘The Popular Front’ and the ‘National Liberation Front’, it represented the first formal collaboration between the two major factions of the Left, which had historically ent…
Uprooting
This study focuses on what has become commonly known as the ‘demographic disorder’ in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). At the general level, the ‘demographic disorder’ refers to the over-reliance on expatriates – in various areas and prominently within labour forces (both highly specialized as well as unskilled) – in GCC societies, where expatriates constitute a majority of the population in four of the GCC countries and a maj…
Policing labour in empire
This study traces the modern origins of the Kafala migrant labour sponsorship system in the Gulf Arab States. The sponsorship system was a product of the British colonial era, particularly the period from the 1920s until independence in the 1970s. Colonial administrators introduced sponsorship requirements in order to control labour migration in the pearl industry shortly before the discovery of oil in the region, and its use was further regulari…
Unpacking “Accumulation By Dispossession”, “Fictitious Commodification”, and “Fictitious Capital Formation”
We explore the interrelationships between the concepts of fictitious commodities, fictitious capital and accumulation by dispossession. We do so through a detailed examination of the dynamics of land reclamation in the Kingdom of Bahrain during the years 2001–2014. Particularly, we dissect in-depth the ensemble of social relations and chain of events involved in two specific real estate projects, Norana and Bahrain Financial Harbour, that have co…
Contested modernity
This study argues that political mobilization based on ethnosectarian identities in Bahrain is a modernist product of the contestations that occurred in the period of increasing British colonial involvement in the early twentieth century. Two concepts are utilized. The first is the colonial ‘ethnosectarian gaze’, marked primarily by its underlying epistemology that saw ethnosectarian cleavages as the main analytic units for approaching local poli…
Divide and Rule in Bahrain and the Elusive Pursuit for a United Front
This article focuses on the ‘The Constitutive Committee’, the 1971–2 mass-movement to create a general trade union in Bahrain. The first mass-movement after independence, it was also the country’s first public non-sectarian organised movement. Initially a joint effort between ‘The Popular Front’ and the ‘National Liberation Front’, it represented the first formal collaboration between the two major factions of the Left, which had historically ent…
Radical Transformations and Radical Contestations
This article approaches the developments in Bahrain during the first decade of the twenty-first century through a geographical, historical materialism perspective. It moves away from emphasizing the traditional narratives of events in the island as dominated by identity-based (and particularly sect-based) politics, arguing that the interactions between space, capital, and people over time are also central to explaining local dynamics. It argues t…
The Political Commodity
This article explores Abdulrahman Munif’s nonfiction Arabic writings on American oil relations in the Middle East. It begins by outlining his historiography of the US oil presence and its periodization from the start of the 20th century to the early 1970s. It then focuses on his analysis of contemporaneous developments during the 1970s, a period which he saw as historically defining in realigning global relations. The article argues that he emplo…
Uprooting
This study focuses on what has become commonly known as the ‘demographic disorder’ in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). At the general level, the ‘demographic disorder’ refers to the over-reliance on expatriates – in various areas and prominently within labour forces (both highly specialized as well as unskilled) – in GCC societies, where expatriates constitute a majority of the population in four of the GCC countries and a maj…
Divide and Rule in Bahrain and the Elusive Pursuit for a United Front
This article focuses on the ‘The Constitutive Committee’, the 1971–2 mass-movement to create a general trade union in Bahrain. The first mass-movement after independence, it was also the country’s first public non-sectarian organised movement. Initially a joint effort between ‘The Popular Front’ and the ‘National Liberation Front’, it represented the first formal collaboration between the two major factions of the Left, which had historically ent…
Transit States
The states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar) form the largest destination for labour migration in the global South. In all of these states, however, the majority of the working population is composed of temporary, migrant workers with no citizenship rights. The cheap and transitory labour power these workers provide has created the prodigious and extraordinary development boom ac…
Radical Transformations and Radical Contestations
This article approaches the developments in Bahrain during the first decade of the twenty-first century through a geographical, historical materialism perspective. It moves away from emphasizing the traditional narratives of events in the island as dominated by identity-based (and particularly sect-based) politics, arguing that the interactions between space, capital, and people over time are also central to explaining local dynamics. It argues t…
Contested modernity
This study argues that political mobilization based on ethnosectarian identities in Bahrain is a modernist product of the contestations that occurred in the period of increasing British colonial involvement in the early twentieth century. Two concepts are utilized. The first is the colonial ‘ethnosectarian gaze’, marked primarily by its underlying epistemology that saw ethnosectarian cleavages as the main analytic units for approaching local poli…
Unpacking “Accumulation By Dispossession”, “Fictitious Commodification”, and “Fictitious Capital Formation”
We explore the interrelationships between the concepts of fictitious commodities, fictitious capital and accumulation by dispossession. We do so through a detailed examination of the dynamics of land reclamation in the Kingdom of Bahrain during the years 2001–2014. Particularly, we dissect in-depth the ensemble of social relations and chain of events involved in two specific real estate projects, Norana and Bahrain Financial Harbour, that have co…
Policing labour in empire
This study traces the modern origins of the Kafala migrant labour sponsorship system in the Gulf Arab States. The sponsorship system was a product of the British colonial era, particularly the period from the 1920s until independence in the 1970s. Colonial administrators introduced sponsorship requirements in order to control labour migration in the pearl industry shortly before the discovery of oil in the region, and its use was further regulari…
The Political Commodity
This article explores Abdulrahman Munif’s nonfiction Arabic writings on American oil relations in the Middle East. It begins by outlining his historiography of the US oil presence and its periodization from the start of the 20th century to the early 1970s. It then focuses on his analysis of contemporaneous developments during the 1970s, a period which he saw as historically defining in realigning global relations. The article argues that he emplo…
Deferred Discounts in Financial Exchange Contracts–A Foundational Legal Study
Objectives: This research aims to establish the juristic foundation of deferred discounts in contemporary and renewed financial exchange contracts. It typologizes the various forms of these discounts based on their contractual conditions and examines whether the discount constitutes a form of compensation (such as subscription fees exceeding mere administrative costs) or whether it is subject to conditions that do not entail direct compensation f…
Labour importism
This article explores labour importism (LI) as a process of labour provisioning whose organising principle is the importation of temporary migrant workers. The analysis is developed around the Arab Gulf States (AGS), the most notable cases of LI in the post-war era. To begin, LI is fleshed out through a ‘history of the present’ genealogy that excavates archival material of the British colonial bureaucracy, the first to systematically administer L…
Economics (6 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Politics (6 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts (5 obras) · Political economy (5 obras) · Socioeconomic Development in MENA (5 obras) · Economy (4 obras)