Iranian and Arab in the Gulf : endangered language, windtowers, and fish sauce

Limbert, John W.

Abstract

That Iranian-Arab aversion that Luce encountered in the course of his shuttle diplomacy is real. But it is only part of the truth. What we are dealing with is a mixture of fact, distortion, stereotype, and myth. In a reasonable world, the realities of history, ethnography and geography would be fixed; but in our world they are not. We can take them as our starting point, but the problem is that for every reality, we are almost certain to find counter-reality.

Citation

Limbert, J. W. (2014). Iranian and Arab in the Gulf : endangered language, windtowers, and fish sauce

• Working Paper Type: Working Paper
• Publication Date: 2014
• Deposit Date: Aug 16, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 16, 2016
• Series Title: Durham Middle East Papers; Sir William Luce Fellowship Paper
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1699797
• Publisher URL: https://www.dur.ac.uk/sgia/research/fellowships/