Laurence Louer is Research Fellow at CERI/SciencesPo in Paris. She has served as a permanent consultant for the Policy Planning Department of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (CAP ) since 2004 and as co-editor-in-chief of Critique internationale since 2006. Her research focuses on the politics of identity and ethnicity in the Middle East. She is the author of two other Hurst titles: Transnational Shia Politics: Political and Religious Networks in the Gulf (2008) and To Be An Arab In Israel (2007).
'This is an especially coherent and informative book.'
*Foreign Affairs*
'Louer is supremely qualified to write on the countries where
Shiites constitute significant portions of the population ...
Highly recommended.'
*CHOICE*
'This remarkably nuanced study of Shiite politics in the Gulf
region looks at the increasing visibility of Shiism there beyond
the stereotyped narratives of sectarian conflict, minority identity
and Iranian policy that are generally invoked to describe the
character of Arab Shiism. Louer gives us a fascinating account of
the related yet different historical processes that define Shiite
politics and identity in Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and
Iraq.'
*Faisal Devji, Reader at St Antony's College, University of Oxford*
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