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Tim Mackintosh-Smith (born 17 July 1961) is a British, Yemen-based, Oxford-educated Arabist, writer, traveller and lecturer. He has written numerous books on the Middle East, won several awards and has presented a major BBC television series.
Tim is the author of several acclaimed books on Arab and Islamic history and culture, including the award-winning Travels with a Tangerine and Landfalls. He lives in Yemen and has made a TV series on Ibn Battutah's journeys.
Tim Mackintosh-Smith is a travel writer and scholar of Ibn Battutah, the 14th-century Moroccan explorer. He has won several awards for his books on Yemen and Battutah's journeys, and has made a BBC TV series.
Mar 26, 2021 · Tim Mackintosh-Smith is an Arabist and historian who lived in Yemen for over 30 years. Read his reviews and articles on Yemen's culture, history and politics.
Tim Mackintosh-Smith is an eminent Arabist, translator, and traveler whose previous publications include Travels with a Tangerine and Yemen. He has lived in the Arab world for thirty-five years and is a senior fellow of the Library of Arabic Literature.
Tim Mackintosh-Smith studied classical Arabic at Oxford. At the age of twenty-one, like Ibn Battutah, he headed east for the real Arabia. His first book, Yemen: The Unknown Arabia, won the Thomas Cook/ Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award and was a New York Times Notable Book.
Tim Mackintosh-Smith has 22 books on Goodreads with 24412 ratings. Tim Mackintosh-Smith’s most popular book is The Travels of Ibn Battutah.
