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Kings and Camels: An American in Saudi Arabia by Grant C. Butler

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By Grant C. Butler

First released in 1960, "Kings and Camels" is a simple account of ways an American went to paintings in Saudi Arabia and got here domestic to the United States to gain how little the common American liked the strategic value of the world and, extra crucially nonetheless, how little he understood the folks within the zone. Butler provides his fabric within the type of an off-the-cuff account of his own stories within the center East, either whereas he lived there, operating for the Arabian American Oil corporation (ARAMCO), and as a profitable lecturer and author who has back to the realm often.The ebook is going backstage within the Arab international, and into inner most viewers with the mythical Ibn Saud. It explains Islam, the faith of the Arabs. It introduces the reader to the desolate tract Bedouin, and the Arab of the towns. It specializes in human curiosity, at the americans who lived and labored in Saudi Arabia. notably, the book's emphasis is at the cultivation of knowing among the yankee and Arab peoples. It issues out how important such knowing is to Saudi Arabia, to the Arabs themselves, and to american citizens.

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Well, most of us believe that our Prophet intended men to have only one wife. ” “Whatever the status of women in the Moslem world today,” the Lebanese continued, “it is the result of other cultures – the Ottoman [19] 02 Kings and Camels Ch 2 2/12/08 9:15 AM Page 20 KINGS AND CAMELS Empire, the Persian Empire – which influenced Moslems. Islam is simple and must be practiced as written. The Koran does not recognize any difference in status for men and women except as the social order dictates. I knew that in her work at the Arab hospital the nurse often has as patients women brought in from the nomad tribes of the desert.

My wife and I figured it out. I spend a few years, maybe five, on this job. I’ve got it made. We can buy a business of our own. We’ve always wanted a pet shop. We love dogs, cats, all kinds of animals. ” Did his wife work? “Sure. She holds down a job as a stenographer, at about $250 a month. Works in one of those big insurance offices. ” We had a delicious breakfast in the Azores that morning, then on to Lisbon and a twenty-four-hour layover with comfortable rooms at the Estoril, the scenic hotel on the shores of Portugal.

Sami assured me he would not judge the country as a whole by the behavior of these two youths. “They seem to be prejudiced,” he suggested, “against my people, or perhaps against foreigners in general. You find prejudiced individuals the world over. I think that mainly they are afraid of anyone who seems different from themselves. ” I knew that my country did not have any priority on bad manners and bigotry. But I knew too that enough of this kind of prejudice, no matter how thinly spread among the American population, could mean real trouble for visitors like Sami, and, on a broader scale, serious trouble in diplomatic relations and international policies.

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