The National’s columnist Faisal Al Yafai talks to traveler and author, Tim Mackintosh-Smith about his recent lecture at New York University Abu Dhabi on Ibn Battutah and Abu Zayd and about his thoughts on the Arab spring. Tim Mackintosh Smith is the author of the trilogy of books, Travels with A Tangerine (2001), The Hall of a Thousand Columns (2005) and Landfalls (2010), which retrace the steps of Ibn Battutah.
Video: A conversation with Tim Mackintosh-Smith
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