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Arabs (book)
''Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires'' is a 2019 non-fiction book by British author and Arabist Tim Mackintosh-Smith. The book was written over 9 years in Sanaa, Yemen, and during the last 4 years, the author was confined in his neighbourhood due to the eruption of the Yemeni Civil War (2015–present), Yemeni Civil War. Covering the history of Arabs from their first known mention in 853 BCE up to the present, the book uses Arabic, Arabic language as a unifying factor to tell the story. ''Arabs'' was met with dozens of reviews and mentions, the vast majority of them favorable. Background Mackintosh-Smith is an Arabist, Travel literature, travel writer and Arabic translator. He is a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and an emeritus Senior Fellow of the New York University Library of Arabic Literature. He views himself as a post-Orientalism, Orientalist, a term referring to Palestinian scholar Edward Said's book ''Orientalism ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Tim Mackintosh-Smith (born 17 July 1961) is a British, Yemen-based, Oxford-educated Arabist, writer, traveller and lecturer. He has written numerous books on the Middle East, won several awards and has presented a major BBC television series. Education Mackintosh-Smith was educated at Clifton College, a boarding independent school for boys in the suburb of Clifton in the port city of Bristol in South West England, from 1971 to 1978, followed by a musical scholarship to the University of Oxford, where he read Classical Arabic. Life and career From 1982 to 2019, Mackintosh-Smith lived in an ancient tower house off the "Market of the Cows" in the old city of San'a, Yemen. As a consequence of the civil war in Yemen, he had to leave this home and temporarily relocate to Malaysia. He is the author of the travel books ''Yemen: Travels in Dictionaryland'' (1997) and ''Yemen: The Unknown Arabia'' (2000). Further, he is one of the foremost scholars of the Moroccan medieval scholar Ib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |