Arabs
Three thousand years of Arab history told through the thing that kept binding it together: the language.
Tim Mackintosh-Smith spent decades living in Yemen, and writes a three-thousand-year history of Arab peoples with language at its centre: how a shared tongue repeatedly created unity where geography and politics did not. It runs from pre-Islamic tribes to the present, and is unusual in treating the Arabic language itself as the main character.
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Derek Sivers
3000 years of factual Arab history, and personal insights from this Oxford Brit who lived in Yemen for 37 years, translates classical Arabic, and clearly cares a lot. Huge and thorough but really wonderful for those with the interest.
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