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15/03/2024

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doi.org/10.69661/3006-6697ja0001

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https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4885-1490

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English – English

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History, Manhattan, Media, Shibam, Yemen

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Manhattan of the desert between seniority and the risk of extinction

Title

Publisher

Magazine Culturel Hadramaout

Author

HASSAN MOHAMMED ABDULLAH ALBAITI

Abstract

If you mention skyscrapers today, everyone will refer to the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which was built with the latest engineering technologies that facilitated the construction of skyscrapers amidst different geographical terrains. As for the oldest of them, which made the English explorer Freya Stark call it “Manhattan of the Desert, or as the German orientalist Hans Hilfertz calls it “Chicago of the Desert, it has existed since ancient times, specifically in eastern Yemen, known as Shabam

ALBAITI, H. M. (2024). Manhattan of the desert between seniority and the risk of extinction. Magazine Culturel Hadramaout, 31, 86–90

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Details (in Arabic)

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Manhattan desert between seniority and the danger of disappearance

Author

Hassan Muhammad Abdullah Al-Baiti

publisher

Hadhramaut Cultural Magazine

Summary

If you mention skyscrapers today, everyone will point to the Burj Khalifa located in Dubai, which was built with the latest engineering techniques that facilitated the construction of skyscrapers in different geographical terrains. As for the oldest one, which made the English explorer Freya Stark call it “the Manhattan of the desert.”^[1]Or, as the German Orientalist Hans Helfertz called it, “the Chicago of the Desert,” it has existed since ancient times, specifically in eastern Yemen, known as Shibam.

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Al-Baiti, H. M. A. (2024). Manhattan desert between ancientness and the risk of extinction. Hadhramaut Cultural Journal, 31, 86-90.