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Geoff Harkness, "Changing Qatar: Culture, Citizenship, and Rapid Modernization" (NYU Press, 2020)

New Books in Anthropology

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Modernization of the Middle East in Qatar

Qatar experienced this massive wealth after the country gained its independence in 1971. In the mid-1990s there was a real um you know boost in wealth and with it came a massive influx of population as well. The dire poverty of the past has been romanticized for a generation that never actually experienced it firsthand. There's a concern that the original traditions and ways of life are eroding under this modernization some of which is westernization.

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