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An invaluable compendium of writing on the Middle East including extracts from canonical and less well known travellers’ works.
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Categories: History
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Broadly this book is about the Arabian desert as the locus of exploration by a long tradition of British travellers that includes T. E. Lawrence and Wilfred The
Travellers in Arabia
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Pages: 240
Authors: Robin Leonard Bidwell
Categories: History
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Robin Bidwell tells the story of the great explorers of Arabia. The exploits of Niebuhr, who made the first intrepid exploration into the interior of southern A
Orientalism Revisited
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The publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism in 1978 marks the inception of orientalism as a discourse. Since then, Orientalism has remained highly polemical
The Book of Khalid
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Authors: Ameen Rihani
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The semi autobiographical work chronicles the adventures of two young men, Khalid and Shakib, who leave Lebanon for the United States to find work as peddlers i