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Alex Boodrookas, "Comrades Estranged: Labor and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century Persian Gulf" (Stanford UP, 2026)

New Books in the Indian Ocean World by New Books Network

Jun 20, 202653:45Arts

In 1975, Kuwaiti workers orchestrated arguably the most powerful citizen-led movement for noncitizen rights in the history of the Persian Gulf. Their efforts built on decades of wide-ranging struggle over the meanings an...

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Alex Boodrookas, "Comrades Estranged: Labor and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century Persian Gulf" (Stanford UP, 2026) is an episode from New Books in the Indian Ocean World by New Books Network. In 1975, Kuwaiti workers orchestrated arguab...

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Published Jun 20, 2026, 53:45 long, audio available.

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