A major aim of the book is to present stories of Arabs the author met and lived with as a social anthropologist.
The stories cover a period from 1968-2012.
Lawrence of Arabia serves as an inspiration for the journey.
Throughout the book the author calls upon a significant amount of history to give a background and to contextualize the stories.
The stories describe the social lives of Arabs in a variety of places, those living in an oasis village, others in a mid-sized city, and yet .
Nap/vellum Left-handed in an islamic world: an anthropologist's journey into the middle east, paperback/john p. mason
