![]() Mackintosh-Smith wrote several travel books including two about Yemen and a trilogy associated with Moroccan medieval explorer Ibn Battuta, which earned him the 1998 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the 2010 Oldie Best Travel Award and the 2010 Ibn Battuta Prize of Honour. His house in the capital Sanaa is a "medieval tower". He reads and speaks Arabic fluently, with a Yemeni accent. He considers Yemen his adoptive country and has lived there for over 35 years. In his early twenties, he received a degree in Arabic studies from the University of Oxford and later moved to Yemen. He views himself as a post- Orientalist, a term referring to Palestinian scholar Edward Said's book Orientalism. 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. Mackintosh-Smith is an Arabist, travel writer and Arabic translator. ![]() ![]() Arabs was met with dozens of reviews and mentions, the vast majority of them favorable. Covering the history of Arabs from their first known mention in 853 BCE up to the present, the book uses Arabic language as a unifying factor to tell the story. 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. 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.
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