Download or read book Archive Wars written by Rosie Bsheer and published by Stanford Studies in Middle Eas. This book was released on 2020 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This project examines how Saudi Arabian officials and economic elites used state archives, historical preservation, and urban redevelopment to consolidate power after the Gulf War. It shows how the Saudi regime attempted to shift the terrain of domestic opposition from the political to the historical and from the streets to institutions, transforming the nation's landscape into a revenue-generating asset"--