http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/gulf-states Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:17:43 -0400 Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:17:43 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1456/awareness-of-emirati-womens-economic-roles-before-the-oil-boom-changing-perceptions-of-gender-roles By Rana AlMutawa - In the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states in general, women played an important economic role in the pre-oil era (before the 1960s) in addition to their “traditional” domestic role. Fatima Al-Sayegh states that women’s economic roles in the UAE were particularly significant between 1900 and 1930 (Al-Sayegh 2001). Today, however, the dominant perception of Arab Gulf women before the oil is relegated to the domestic sphere. The common belief is that it is only recently that Gulf women started playing economic and leadership roles. This perception... Sun, 09 Oct 2016 08:42 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1456/awareness-of-emirati-womens-economic-roles-before-the-oil-boom-changing-perceptions-of-gender-roles http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1202/liberal-opposition-mounting-pressures-for-reform-in-saudi-arabia-and-kuwait By Sam Kuhn - For all the border-transcending, common cause implications of the popular moniker "the Arab Spring," the sociopolitical upheaval it is meant to allude to seems, upon superficial review of its developing impacts, to have largely missed the Persian Gulf. The protests at Bahrain's Pearl Roundabout garnered minor international media attention relative to the "revolutions" undertaken in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Syria, while Kuwait and Saudi Arabia project images of comparative regime stability. In fact, invigorated by the successes and mindful of the tactics of the selfdetermination movement throughout... Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:00 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1202/liberal-opposition-mounting-pressures-for-reform-in-saudi-arabia-and-kuwait