The Many Ways of Being Human

2.10

Yemen and Oman

Shibam in the Hadhramaut is a city of mud towers seven or eight storeys high, built from a material rain dissolves, so it stands only because someone replasters it every year. The chapter travels through southern Arabia, from frankincense kingdoms and falaj channels that divide water by time to Oman's Ibadis and the island of Socotra.