Escape from Zanzibar: Refugees, Documents, and the Indian Ocean Shipping Regime

Contenu

Titre

Escape from Zanzibar: Refugees, Documents, and the Indian Ocean Shipping Regime

Créateur

Limbert, Mandana E. Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Date

2022

Dans

International Journal of Middle East Studies Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Résumé

In January 1964, on the heels of its formal independence from Britain, the East African island of Zanzibar exploded in a violent uprising ousting the Al-Bu Saidi sultan—an Omani by descent—and his primarily “Arab” government. Though early reports of the revolution did not indicate targeted attacks against Arabs, it soon became clear that thousands of Arab-identified residents—settlers—were killed, mostly in rural areas.
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Others, including some families I came to know during my years in interior Oman, described being separated from their families or being captured and taken to detention camps, where they stayed a week or two before being reunited. Some found their way to these camps in search of relatives, shelter, and food.
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Decades later, the chaos and violence of that time was recounted to me with unnerving directness. Eventually, thousands of Arabs were deported or fled—to Kenya, Dubai and Abu Dhabi, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Muscat and Oman. Muscat, on the coast of Oman, was the seat of the other Al-Bu Saidi sultan—a cousin of the Zanzibar sultan—who had only recently taken control of “Oman proper,” the territory of the Imamate whose ruler was now in exile in Saudi Arabia having been defeated in a war with the Sultan of Muscat. In the meantime, those leaving Zanzibar required ships and documents.

Langue

eng

volume

54

numéro

4

pages

753-757

doi

10.1017/S0020743823000077

issn

0020-7438, 1471-6380

uri

https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0020743823000077/type/journal_article

Limbert, Mandana E., “Escape from Zanzibar: Refugees, Documents, and the Indian Ocean Shipping Regime”, 2022, bibliographie, consulté le 18 septembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/23617