As an academic outsider at best into Gulf Studies but a cultural insider from Al Khuwair, growing up with Swahili Speaking Al Rawahy’s and Al Barwani’s in Muscat/ I thoroughly appreciate the talk by Dr Nathaniel at the UVa History Department Webinar Series, which has been a leading learning resource.

Love the methods slide!

Chicken Rice

Kopitiams or Coffee Shops in Hokkien are an index of convergence in the Nusantara. In the various ‘ethnoscapes’ , food and its cooks often from around the region, have their own language in its everyday. The ability to think and create the unique vocabulary on one’s own terms is the key to thinking from below, plurality of thinking is the key to decolonizing migration studies which is a thoroughly colonial enterprise.