Besides, being fond of Arabs, it was probable that I could never really like Kurds, Although the landscape appealed to me the people did not. Admittedly I was hampered by not speaking their language, but even had I done so I felt I should still have not liked them. As people are more important to me than places I decided to return to the Arabs.
W. Thesiger, The Marsh Arabs (1964), 20-21
This is the kind of brutal introduction that I don't think you could publish anymore.
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