Abstract
This article uses a multigenerational lens to address the tangible and intangible embodiments of the US-Saudi oil empire in the lives of the three sister authors. This multisited intimate geography of empire challenges national categories and recognizes that mixing and migrations, forced or desired, shape and define all families. It explores the look, feel, and sounds of lifeworlds in the US imperial outpost of Aramco using an immense archive of family photographs and Fadia Basrawi’s memoir, Brownies and Kalashnikovs: A Saudi Woman’s Memoir of American Arabia and Wartime Beirut (2009). It considers the geopolitics of oil and the worlds it produced in the intimate relations and domestic quarters of the Aramco oil camp in the 1950s and 1960s, in the authors’ childhoods in Beirut during the Lebanese civil war, which also involved US imperialism, and as embodied in their lives at present.
| Original language | American English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 268-291 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | Journal of Middle East Women's Studies |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 2018 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Gender Studies
- Cultural Studies
- History
- Sociology and Political Science
Keywords
- Aramco
- Intimacy
- Lebanon
- Saudi Arabia
- US empire
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