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...relationship with the prince enabled Carl Raswan to observe and participate in aspects of Bedouin life closed to most foreigners. He lived with the Ruala as one of them, visited them eleven times in the next 22 years, hunted and raided with them, was eventually adopted into the tribe as a chieftain. Black Tents of Arabia consists of 28 lean chapters of reminiscences that give the impression of having been carefully selected from a great storehouse of similar memories. Essentially the work of a man of action-the author dismisses in two paragraphs his experiences in the Turkish Army...
When Carl Raswan returned to Arabia after the War he was given as guide and traveling companion Faris ibn Naif es-Sa'bi, gentle-eyed, black-bearded Bedouin nobleman, "the truest friend I have ever known.'' With Faris he drove from Damascus over the hard, dry, gravel uplands in search of Amir Fuaz, witnessed the unfolding of Faris' romance with a young shepherdess, Tuema, encountered on the way. When the two travelers pledged Tuema their protection, she let them sleep in her tent without fear, knowing that they would not break their word. Later Carl Raswan...
...rode on to other parts of Arabia, was captured by raiding enemies of Amir Fuaz and rescued by Amir himself, went on a great falcon hunt with the prince. Two years later he saw Tuema again, learned that Faris' brief marriage had ended happily by the standards of Bedouin romance, since Tuema had borne...
...bronze bust of a Bedouin was carted up to the delivery door of Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History last week and installed in the Chauncey Keep Memorial Hall. Visitors, most of whom were trying to get their feet dry, were unaware of the occasion, but it marked the final completion of the largest sculptural commission ever given a woman, possibly the largest commission ever completed by one sculptor anywhere: 101 life-size statues and busts in bronze, depicting, to the best of present anthropological belief, all the races of mankind. They were the work of able, grey...
Meanwhile muffled Bedouin riflemen, deserting the Imam's army, broke into the bazaars of Hodeida and looted lustily. About 300 foreigners were in the city, mostly British Indians. Before the Saudite troops entered, the greater portion had fled to the nearby island of Kamaran. With the victorious troops in Hodeida, the Emir Feisal, Ibn Saud's second son and Foreign Minister, assured the world that sacking was over and the city quite safe for foreigners. His potent father, he said, had already picked him as the next King of Yemen. Then the Saudite horsemen swept inland toward...