Bøger om Kuwait

Voor liefhebbers van 'Ik vertrek', 'Erica op reis' en de programma's van Floortje Dessing.Elk jaar emigreren ongeveer 40.000 Nederlanders naar het buitenland. Wat is hun verhaal? En in hoeverre voelen ze zich nog verbonden met Nederland?In deze reeks vertellen Nederlanders en niet-Nederlanders over hun ervaringen als migrant; over cultuurverschillen, integratie, misverstanden, geluk, familie en de liefde.Judith Spiegel (53) woont sinds 2014 in Koeweit, nadat ze eerder lange tijd in Jemen verbleef. In haar huidige thuisland geeft ze les aan rechtenstudenten en levert ze bijdragen aan NRC, Hard Gras en Met het oog op morgen. In deze aflevering van Je band met Nederland vertelt Judith was ze mist aan Nederland en wat juist niet. In haar contact met de Koeweiti en de vele andere bevolkingsgroepen in het land heeft ze ook geleerd met andere ogen naar Nederland te kijken.In de 11-delige audioserie 'Je band met Nederland' luister je naar Nederlanders die naar het buitenland zijn vertrokken en naar buitenlanders die zich in Nederland hebben gevestigd. Je hoort hoe hun kennismaking met een nieuwe cultuur is verlopen en hoe zij terugzien op het land waar zij vandaan komen. Niemand heeft een reden om terug te keren. Toch is het de vraag waar de mensen in deze serie 'thuis' zijn. Maar dat is misschien een kleine prijs om te betalen voor hun rijkere kijk op de wereld.'Je band met Nederland' is gemaakt door Peter de Ruiter. Op een na zijn alle reportages over Nederlanders in het buitenland ter plekke gemaakt.Peter de Ruiter (1960) heeft een neus voor technische ontwikkelingen die het leven van mensen verbeteren of veraangenamen. Daar schrijft hij boeken over. Ook geeft hij workshops over dergelijke maatschappelijke en technologische veranderingen. De Ruiter heeft zijn sporen verdiend met uitgaven over onder meer digitaal fotograferen, elektrische auto's en bitcoins & blockchains. Een lange staat van dienst als podcastmaker was de aanleiding voor het boek 'De podcastprofessor', dat in 2018 verscheen.

A unique perspective on the planning and execution of coalition warfare and the employment of multinational forces during Operation "Iraqi Freedom.

Former RAF Tornado pilot Michael Napier chronicles the action-packed history of the Harrier GR 7/9, and its missions in West Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East and Afghanistan over a 14-year period of ceaseless operations. The Harrier GR 7/9 was at the 'tip of the spear' for the RAF when it came to employing weapons against well-equipped standing armies and irregular forces in the 1990s and during the first decade of the new millennium. Assigned to the Harrier GR 7/9 Force, the aircraft undertook No Fly Zone patrols over northern Iraq, supported UN forces in the Balkans and embarked in Royal Navy carriers to bolster the RAF presence ashore in the Arabian Gulf. Harrier GR 7s also flew from HMS Illustrious over Sierra Leone in 2000 and were involved in the second Gulf War during early 2003 acting as Close Air Support for Coalition forces. Using first-hand accounts from his extensive Service contacts, supported by both official and personal photographs and 30 artwork profiles illustrating the wide range of colours worn and ordnance employed by the 'jump jet', Michael Napier provides a rare insider's look at the deployment of Harrier GR 7/9 up to its withdrawal from RAF service in 2010. Moreover, Napier also covers the numerous upgrades received by the aircraft over the years, from more powerful engines to the creation of the GR 9/9A variants in 2005.

With first-hand insight into the into the key role of the US Air Force's fighter-bomber from the Vietnam War through to Operation Desert Storm during the First Gulf War, this book is an unmissable account of some of the most dangerous and demanding missions in the two wars.The advent of the surface-to-air missile (SAM) in the early 1950s threatened the whole concept of aerial bombing from medium and high altitude. Countermeasures were developed during the Korean War, but with little initial success. It was only in the closing stages of the Vietnam War, with the F-4Cww Phantom II (Wild Weasel 4), that this equipment started to become successful enough to allow a substantial investment in converting 116 F-4E Phantom IIs into dedicated SEAD aircraft. This move introduced a new generation of anti-radar missiles which became invaluable in later operations including operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm and Northern Watch over Iraq. This volume features dynamic archival photography from crews who flew the jet, alongside mission accounts and technical details of the development and fielding of the F-4 Wild Weasel in its various iterations. Including specially commissioned artwork of 'sharkmouthed' Phantom IIs in Vietnam jungle camouflage and more modern USAF 'Ghost Gray', this book is the ultimate visual and technical guide to the F-4 Phantom II Wild Weasel Units in combat.

A century on from the Paris Peace Conference that redrew the map of the Middle East, and the region has endured constant conflict. Alongside the military and economic wars, the West and Arab states have fought to control public opinion by managing the narratives that explain and validate their actions. This story charts the often hidden information war, from the propaganda coup of the entry of British forces into Jerusalem in 1917 to the campaign of perception management that sold the case for regime change in Saddam's Iraq in 2003. As the West has embraced the abstractions of public diplomacy and soft power, the propagandists of Islamic State have developed global reach and impact using a simple message and cutting edge digital and social media to generate publicity and harvest recruits. In the Trump era of fake news, media manipulation, and cyber warfare, the battle to control public opinion in the post Arab Spring Middle East has raised the stakes for winners and losers.

Petro-modernity is a local phenomenon essential to the history of Kuwait, while also a global experience and one of the prime sources of climate change. The book investigates petroleum's role in the visual culture of Kuwait to understand the intersecting ideologies of modernization, political representation, and oil. The notion of iridescence, the ambiguous yet mesmerizing effect of a rainbowlike color play, serves as analytical-aesthetic concept to discuss petroleum's ambiguous contribution to modernity: both promise of prosperity and destructive force of socio-cultural and ecological environments. Covering a broad spectrum of historical material from aerial and color photography, visual arts, postage stamps, and master plans to architecture and also contemporary art from the Gulf, it dismantles petro- modernity's visual legacy.