To what extent is our civilization likely to affect Arabia’s nomads, the Bedouins? How is it likely to alter their customs and their traditional way of life?
This is an absorbing and authentic account, first published in 1986, of the history and traditional way of life of the Al-Dhafir bedouins of north-eastern Arabi
"But his greatest discovery was an old, poor, illiterate and unruly Bedouin, the poet ad-Dindan, whose magnificent poetry offered contemporary proof of the auth