Al Mustami al Arabi = Arabic Listener Vol. IX, No. 13, 1948

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A single issue of the BBC Arabic Service's fortnightly journal. Original illustrated wraps smartly bound inside modern library cloth, gilt-titled to the front. Printed by Stephen Austin & Sons, Hertford. 32pp with several b/w photos and adverts, with text primarily in Arabic, with some English. Wraps good only, covered in translucent paper with loss to spine. Interiors very good. Library binding fine. The BBC's Arabic radio service and accompanying journal "The Arabic Listener", was launched in 1938 to counter Mussolini's propaganda in the Middle East. Among its editors were LP Elwell-Sutton, Nevill Barbour, Robert Bertram Serjeant, and EH Paxton. Articles cover a diverse range of topical, cultural, historical, and educational themes, including the food supply problem, literature in the pre-Islamic era, the history of medicine, Iraqi poet and philosopher Jamil Sadaq al-Zahawi, farming on vacation, politics and ethics, the death of BBC Middle East Correspondent John Nixon aboard an Arab airlines flight shot down by a Jewish fighter over Transjordan, paper making, land and poverty in the Middle East, the trial of a murderer in the House of Lords, and teaching English on the radio. N° de ref. del artículo 4865

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