A richly detailed chronicle of Arab language and culture offers thought-provoking parallels between past and present
utside the window of Tim Mackintosh-Smith’s home in Sana’a, the Yemeni capital, are reminders of the long sweep of Arab history – child soldiers mourning martyrs of the country’s ongoing war, rocket salvoes,, hypnotic slogans and a mosque dating back to the seventh century and the rise of Islam in the Arabian peninsula.
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