Acknowledgements
This research would not have been possible without the support of the Council for British Research in the Levant, whose Pilot Study Grant enabled the field work for the initial development of the project. In addition, I’d like to thank Jafar Farah and the Mossawa Centre, for sharing their thoughts and insights on how new and old infrastructure projects intersect to order and entrench geo-economic relations in the Middle East. The project also would not have been possible without the diligent work of Abed Abou Shhadeh, whose contribution as the project’s research assistant was invaluable to its development and completion.