For most of the ten years they spent in South Arabia, Doreen and Harold Ingrams lived in the Hadhramaut, where they were the first Europeans to make their home and the first that many of the Hadhramis had ever seen. Speaking the language, Doreen Ingrams was able to get to know the women who lived in Purdah. Here she describes their daily life, their attitudes towards marriages arranged for them in childhood and sometimes shared with other wives, and their traditions and tribulations. This unvarnished picture of life in South Arabia is based on her diaries. Her conclusions and view on the British withdrawal are convincing, through her meeting the villagers on their own ground and fully sharing their lives.

A Time in Arabia

History

Ingrams, Doreen

Middle East

Kegan Paul Intl

Palestine Papers, 1917-1922, Seeds of Conflict - hardcover

Palestine Papers, 1917-1922, Seeds of Conflict

Arts & Photography

Architecture

G. Braziller

Photographs and brief text contrast the nomadic, village, and city life styles of the Arab people.

Tents to City Sidewalks (Her the Arab World)

Children's Books

Emc Pub.

<p>Considers the founding, spread, devotional practices, and basic teachings of Islam and touches upon the unity of members of the Muslim faith</p>

Mosques and Minarets (Her the Arab World)

Discusses the basic teachings of Islam and illustrates, through photographs, their unifying effect on the different cultures within the Arab world.

Mosques and minarets (Her The Arab world)

EMC Corp.

<p>Doreen Ingrams and her husband were the first Europeans ever to live in the Hadhramaut, an extraordinary, isolated region of southern Arabia. Married to an Arabic-speaking British official, she arrived by boat, and during their ten-year residency travelled throughout the region by camel and donkey. Doreen kept a diary in which she detailed their adventures and described her unequalled access to the domestic quarters, to the women and children, the food, the scents, secrets, jewels, and privileges of this extraordinarily rich traditional society. A Time in Arabia is a precious document - part history, part time-travel, seen through the eyes of a decent, modest, and compassionate woman. "Blending history, travel and autobiography with strong cultural observations, this is a fine and engrossing work."--Midwest Book Review February 2014</p>

A Time in Arabia: Life in Hadramaut

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Eland Publishing

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