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Maxime Delvaux : Château de Chambord, Dilmun Burial Mounds, Jože Plečnik, Río Tinto, Victor Horta
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ISBN: 9783753304823 3753304824 Year: 2023 Publisher: Köln : Brussels : Brussels : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König ; Architecture Curating Practice ; Accattone,

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The publication is structured around five photographic series, each devoted to a particular building, site or architect: Château de Chambord in France, Dilmun Burial Mounds in Bahrain, Jože Plečnik’s buildings in and around Ljubljana, Río Tinto in Spain, and Victor Horta’s Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels. It is, especially, a book of (hi)stories in which the series by Maxime Delvaux are accompanied by texts. For these, various authors have been invited to react to the images with the idea of experimenting with the text: fiction, historical essay, round-table discussion, scientific text and photonovel. Graphic designers played with text and images to give them form. The reader is in turn invited to create possible alliances between images and texts. Like Maxime Delvaux’s photographic approach, these texts and their articulation with the photographs are specific to each subject, illustrating five ways of showing and telling about places near and far.

Arab Seafaring : In the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times - Expanded Edition
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ISBN: 0691001707 0691214891 0374939853 Year: 1995 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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In this classic work George Hourani deals with the history of the sea trade of the Arabs in the Indian Ocean from its obscure origins many centuries before Christ to the time of its full extension to China and East Africa in the ninth and tenth centuries. The book comprises a brief but masterly historical account that has never been superseded. The author gives attention not only to geography, meteorology, and the details of travel, but also to the ships themselves, including a discussion of the origin of stitched planking and of the lateen fore-and-aft sails. Piracy in the Indian Ocean, day-to-day life at sea, the establishment of ancient lighthouses and the production of early maritime guides, handbooks, and port directories are all described in fascinating detail. Arab Seafaring will appeal to anyone interested in Arab life or the history of navigation. For this expanded edition, John Carswell has added a new introduction, a bibliography, and notes that add material from recent archaeological research.


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The Bahrain tumuli : an illustrated catalogue of two important collections
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ISBN: 9062580475 Year: 1980 Volume: vol 47

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Population and development of the Arab gulf states : the case of Bahrain, Oman and Kuwait
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ISBN: 0754632202 1351909959 1315246406 1138258482 9781351909952 9781315246406 9780754632207 9780754632207 9781351909938 9781138258488 1351909940 9781351909945 Year: 2016 Publisher: London : Routledge,

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Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes Peer Reviews: Bahrain 2013 : Phase 2: Implementation of the Standard in Practice
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ISBN: 9264205462 9264205454 Year: 2013 Publisher: Paris : OECD Publishing,

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This report contains the Phase 2: Global Forum Peer Review of Bahrain, as well as a revised version of the Phase 1 review already released for this country. The Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes is the multilateral framework within which work in the area of tax transparency and exchange of information is carried out by 120 jurisdictions, which participate in the Global Forum on an equal footing. The Global Forum is charged with in-depth monitoring and peer review of the implementation of the international standards of transparency and exchange of information for tax purposes. These standards are primarily reflected in the 2002 OECD Model Agreement on Exchange of Information on Tax Matters and its commentary, and in Article 26 of the OECD Model Tax Convention on Income and on Capital and its commentary as updated in 2004. The standards have also been incorporated into the UN Model Tax Convention. The standards provide for international exchange on request of foreseeably relevant information for the administration or enforcement of the domestic tax laws of a requesting party. Fishing expeditions are not authorised but all foreseeably relevant information must be provided, including bank information and information held by fiduciaries, regardless of the existence of a domestic tax interest or the application of a dual criminality standard. All members of the Global Forum, as well as jurisdictions identified by the Global Forum as relevant to its work, are being reviewed. This process is undertaken in two phases. Phase 1 reviews assess the quality of a jurisdiction’s legal and regulatory framework for the exchange of information, while Phase 2 reviews look at the practical implementation of that framework. Some Global Forum members are undergoing combined – Phase 1 and Phase 2 – reviews. The Global Forum has also put in place a process for supplementary reports to follow-up on recommendations, as well as for the ongoing monitoring of jurisdictions following the conclusion of a review. The ultimate goal is to help jurisdictions to effectively implement the international standards of transparency and exchange of information for tax purposes. All review reports are published once approved by the Global Forum and they thus represent agreed Global Forum reports.  


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Bahrain National Museum
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ISBN: 0907151787 Year: 1993 Publisher: London Immel Publishing Ltd


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City of Strangers : Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain
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ISBN: 0801448824 0801462207 080147602X 9780801462207 9780801448829 9780801476020 9783377415004 3377415009 9780801462191 0801462193 Year: 2010 Publisher: Ithaca : ILR Press,

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In City of Strangers, Andrew M. Gardner explores the everyday experiences of workers from India who have migrated to the Kingdom of Bahrain. Like all the petroleum-rich states of the Persian Gulf, Bahrain hosts an extraordinarily large population of transmigrant laborers. Guest workers, who make up nearly half of the country's population, have long labored under a sponsorship system, the kafala, that organizes the flow of migrants from South Asia to the Gulf states and contractually links each laborer to a specific citizen or institution.In order to remain in Bahrain, the worker is almost entirely dependent on his sponsor's goodwill. The nature of this relationship, Gardner contends, often leads to exploitation and sometimes violence. Through extensive observation and interviews Gardner focuses on three groups in Bahrain: the unskilled Indian laborers who make up the most substantial portion of the foreign workforce on the island; the country's entrepreneurial and professional Indian middle class; and Bahraini state and citizenry. He contends that the social segregation and structural violence produced by Bahrain's kafala system result from a strategic arrangement by which the state insulates citizens from the global and neoliberal flows that, paradoxically, are central to the nation's intended path to the future.City of Strangers contributes significantly to our understanding of politics and society among the states of the Arabian Peninsula and of the migrant labor phenomenon that is an increasingly important aspect of globalization.


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Bahrain's business environment
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ISBN: 1281983551 9786611983550 1846730872 9781846730870 Year: 2008 Publisher: London Philadelphia, PA GMB Pub.

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This definite guide to the economic initiatives now attracting foreign investors to Barain emphasizes the Kingdom's role as a regional financial hub. It provides a clear explanation of the legal and regulatory framework, banking, finance, accounting, taxation and commercial practices essential for foreign investors and business partners.

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