Modern Society & Culture

ISBN: 9780955889417
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
This book, in Arabic, describes a crucial episode in Yemeni history, during which tribal feuding was brought to an end. The Hadhramaut region, by the 1930s under British tutelage as part of the Eastern Aden Protectorate, comprised a patchwork of t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780955889400
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
Portable and practical, tough and colourful, Bedouin textiles played until recent times a vital and functional part in the life of the Arab nomads. Bedouin women were expected to master the art of making entire tents as well as a wide range of rug... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780955889486
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
Portable and practical, tough and colourful, Bedouin textiles played until recent times a vital and functional part in the life of the Arab nomads. Bedouin women were expected to master the art of making entire tents as well as a wide range of rug... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780954479251
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
ALAN VILLIERS (190382) WAS a renowned Australian sailor, writer and photographer. Originally published in 1940, Sons of Sindbad is his account of sailing with the Arabs in their dhows in southern Arabia, along the East African coast and in the Ara... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781900404174
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
Born into a leading merchant family in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, Dr Algosaibi not only experienced but, as a government minister, played a leading part in the Kingdom's rapid modernisation during the 1970s and 1980s.
In this administra... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781900404198
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
Born in Kuwait in 1926, into a distinguished Kuwaiti family of pearl merchants and seafarers, Saif Marzooq al- Shamlan describes the final generation of the pearling industry from 1900 to the slump of the 1930s, when the development of the Japanes... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781900404280
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
Ever since Kuwait emerged in the 18th century as a young maritime state with an extreme dependence on the sea, it has been renowned for the consummate skills of its sailors and dhow-builders.
Kuwait's shipwrights became justly famed for the b... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781900404211
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
This biography of Sabah al-Salim Al- Sabah assesses his contribution to the political history of Kuwait. Relying on documents from the British and US archives, as well as frank reminiscences of former colleagues within Kuwait, it covers his entire... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781900404310
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
During the late 1940s, British governance of the Western Aden Protectorate was being tentatively extended by a handful of hardy officials whose reputation for incorruptibility and even-handedness went before them.
Of these the young Nigel Gro... .... Learn More