Word: dhows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Belgrave's wife, to the horror of Bahrein's purdah-loving elders but with a behind-the-scenes assist from Sheik Hamed's No. i wife, won permission to open a school for girls. In a series of bitter struggles with the usurers and dhow owners, who had long run the Bahrein waterfront, Belgrave reorganized the pearl-diving industry and gradually won Bahrein a lucrative reputation as the only honest transshipment port in the Middle East...
...scholar. Awed subjects say he has read through the encyclopedia from A to Z; currently he is writing a history of Kuwait. He is a kindly, gentle man, with a low, musical voice which he seldom raises. Every Friday he takes off on a cruise in his well-fitted dhow, accompanied by officials from K.O.C. and local American and British diplomats. He relaxes and invites his foreign friends to air their problems. There is nothing about him of the autocratic air of his neighbor, Ibn Saud. He revived the Majlis (an informal council of sheiks and leading businessmen) which predecessors...
This letter may take some time to reach you, as it goes first by a native in a hollowed tree-trunk canoe, then in a dhow, then in a trading schooner, and finally in a plane-a kind of potted edition of travel through the ages...