Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East - Paperbackby Arang Keshavarzian (Author) The Persian Gulf has long been a contested space an object of imperial ambitions, national antagonisms, and migratory dreams. The roots of these contestations lie in the different ways the Gulf has been defined as a region, both by those who live there and those beyond its shore. Making Space for the Gulf reveals how capitalism, empire building, geopolitics, and urbanism have each shaped understandings of the region over