The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies is holding the Eleventh Gulf Studies Forum on 30 November-01 December 2024. The two thematic topics of the forum will be “Arab Gulf States and the Palestine Question” and “The Gulf City as a Structure and Social Agent”. 

The Forum is split into two tracks. The first deals with the relationship of the Arab Gulf states to the Palestine question. The Forum is calling for papers on: Gulf states’ positions, and their development, on the Palestine question; Relations among Gulf States and their impact on the Palestine question; Gulf states’ relations with the Palestinian leadership, the national movement, and its representative bodies; Justifications and reasons for Gulf-Israeli normalization; The US factor in Gulf-Israeli relations; The implications of Gulf-Israeli normalization for the future of the Palestine question; Gulf security and the Palestine question; Popular positions in Gulf countries on the Palestine question.

The second track explores the Gulf city as a structure and social agent. The Forum proposes the following themes for research: Issues related to modernization, belonging, national identity, the rentier state, globalization, urban planning, and urbanization between inland cities and coastal cities, and migrant communities; Employment and cultural pluralism in the Gulf city; rapid architectural and urban transformations; urban expansion; smart and specialized cities in the Gulf states; well as the impact of organizing major cultural and sporting events in the Gulf city, the similarities and differences between the cities of the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula, and finally the distinctiveness of Gulf cities in the Arab world.

See:

The Concept Note.

The Booklet.

The Timetable.