In this chapter, I present the problem of how to understand “race” as a concept of identity in relation to theatrical practices of acting and spectating during the Romantic period, and then introduce Barbara and Karen ...

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Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) has kindly permitted the research team to study and publish a number of coins discovered in the old town of Al-Zubarah. The coins are now housed at the 19th century re-built of Al-Zubarah Fort. ...

This article addresses the focus of museum sectors in Doha, Qatar in relation to their educational role. This role can be linked to the opening of the Education Centre (EC) at the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) in fall 2009, ...

Legal sources, the Qur'an and the Sunnah/Hadith present various forms of challenge to legal scholars. This chapter presents a general historical overview of these two sources of Islamic law in addition to some of the ...

Kish is a low-lying island of coral rock, 90 km2 in area, a few kilometres off the Iranian coast in the Persian Gulf. Ferdousi Street is the actual main avenue of Kish, but in spite of its line of hotels, amusements and ...

This article examines the relationship between different district-level decision-making bodies in the late nineteenth-century Ottoman context. Using Sharia court records and property registers produced in the rural Syrian ...

This chapter investigates the establishment of the first National Museum in Qatar in the 1970s, during the reign of Sheikh Khalifa Bin Hamad Al Thani. Opened on the 23 June 1975, the Qatar National Museum became the first ...