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Manhattan of the desert between seniority and the risk of extinction
HASSAN MOHAMMED ABDULLAH ALBAITI
Lecturer at University of the People and Islamic University of Minnesota
Magazine Culturel Hadramaout
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Manhattan of the Desert: Between Antiquity and the Danger of Extinction
Hassan Mohammed Abdullah Al-Bayti
University lecturer at the American University of the People and the Islamic University of Minnesota
Hadhramaut Cultural Magazine
If you mention skyscrapers today, everyone will point to the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which was built with the latest engineering techniques that facilitated the construction of skyscrapers in the midst of different geographical terrains. As for the oldest of them, which made the English explorer Freya Stark call it “the Manhattan of the desert”[1], or as the German orientalist Hans Helfritz called it “the Chicago of the desert,” it has existed since ancient times, specifically in eastern Yemen, known as Shibam.
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