TY  - BOOK
AU  - Philip Robins
TI  - Middle East Drugs Bazaar: Production, Prevention and Consumption
SN  - 9781849042819
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Drug traffic
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Drug control
KW  - Drug abuse
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-261) and index; Production spaces. Morocco : 'The Green Petrol' -- Lebanon : local fashion, regional politics -- Qat in Yemen : jeopardising development. -- Consumption spaces. Egypt : the land of the Hashisheen -- Israel : crime and ethnicity -- Saudi Arabia : an inevitable part of modernisation? -- Iran : grappling with addiction. -- Transit spaces. Turkey : from cultivator to conduit -- Dubai : the drugs hub -- Iraq : insurgency and state collapse
N2  - This book is concerned with the origins, evolution and impact of drugs on the states and societies of the Middle East. The primary focus of the book is ten countries, chosen because of their substantive yet contrasting experiences with different aspects of drugs, from cultivation, through consumption and trafficking, to state responses and the final incorporation of drugs into the cultures of the different societies
ER  -