#  Researching Abu Dhabi's Urban Planning and Architecture 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **February 20, 2014** 

 03:45PM - 05:00PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

**The Center for Middle Eastern Studies** is pleased to present

**Pascale Menoret**  
Assistant Professor, Middle East Studies, NYU Abu Dhabi

Pascal Menoret completed his Ph.D. in 2008 from the Department of History at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He joined NYUAD in 2011 after two years as a post-doctoral fellow at Princeton’s Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia (2008-2010), and a year at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (2010-2011). He is on leave in 2013-2014 and spends a second year at the Harvard Academy.  
  
Pascal's research combines urban history and social anthropology. His book, *Joyriding in Riyadh: Oil, Urbanism, and Road Revolt*, will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2014. *Joyriding in Riyadh* explores the relationship between urban planning and youth unrest in the Saudi capital. His new book project, entitled *Graveyard of the Clerics: Religious Activism in Saudi Suburbia*, is a cultural history of the Saudi Islamic movements since the mid-1960s. He has published *The Saudi Enigma: A History* (Zed Books, 2005) and *L'Arabie, des routes de l'encens à l'ère du pétrole* (Gallimard, 2010). He is also interested in literary translation from Arabic into English, urban music in the Middle East and Southern Europe, and modern architecture.

The discussion will be moderated by Professor *Emeritus* **Roger Owen**.

This lecture is presented as part of CMES's Spring 2014 lecture series on **The Arab Gulf: History, Culture and Contemporary Change.**

**Contact:** [Liz Flanagan](mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu)



 

 



 

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- [ History of Art & Architecture ](/research-field/history-art-architecture)
- [ Arabian Peninsula ](/research-region/arabian-peninsula)
- [ 2013-14 ](/academic-year/2013-14)
 
 

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