Workshop
WHEN
May 13-14, 2013
9am - 5pm
WHERE
Sheraton Corniche Hotel, Abu Dhabi
WHO
NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
Open to the Public
See May 13 for companion evening event
This workshop explores the economic sectors that thrived in the Trucial Coast before the advent of oil. They include: pearling, animal husbandry and nomadism, date farming, fishing and hunting, transportation and commerce, and governance. Participants discuss the emergence of modernity in the twentieth century as an economic, political, and cultural system that affected the UAE, as it did other local indigenous communities in the world. The workshop principally seeks to uncover both the joy and the hardship of the UAE’s pre-oil society.
Philip Kennedy Vice Provost, Institute Public Programming and Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Comparative Literature, NYUAD
James Toth Special Advisor for Institute Regional Programs, NYUAD
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