I' I've found like dozens or hundreds of these drones." You've got to persuade Arabian oil going out to the Red Sea. Uh and this is the the port there at the
And the old witch, you know, loses her temper, realizes that someone has been getting in, and that Rapunzel is having a baby. "The Arabian Nights" opens with a very interesting example of a storyteller thinking about conditions in the world.
Um, so that could happen where uh I I have an idea of a piece. So Bob Wilson and I have talked about the Palace of the Arabian Knights. We've talked about that since 1984 and we still haven't done it, but we're still here. He told me last once he says, I get a call from Bob. He says, I think I've got someone to do the piece. And he
that I mentioned earlier Anwar al-awlaki one of the senior leaders of al-qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula no religious no religious credentials never went to all as our university in Saudi Arabia in fact it was arrested twice in San Diego
better one for 87 years. The best places to see it will be the south of Spain and Gibraltar, as well as northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. But if you want to see it, you'd better get organized quickly, as Vanessa Igoe has been finding out. Have a look at this. I've just seen on Airbnb in Gibraltar that there's nothing left for those dates around the eclipse,
of the last ice age and the very low sea levels-- the first civilizations who arose were in this part of the world. This is the Arabian Peninsula. I've just shown for you here the plate boundaries-- those orange lines, the fractures in the skin of our planet where these great, big chunks
And it was almost as if a chunk of Africa was torn off as Arabian Peninsula, and has been drifting away ever since. This whole Arabian Peninsula has been swinging away like a barn door caught in the wind. And it slammed into the underside of Eurasia-- the Eurasian continental landmass.
But she holds him by telling him stories. And in "The Arabian Nights" you have a very clear picture of how stories were associated. But it's not only with this idea that you can make you feel a little better, like the bride in the cave, but that actually, you
southwest coast of India that's about 600 kilometres of beachfront that borders the Arabian Sea and not surprisingly the fishing industry is a very important part of the Kerala economy a typical example of how fish
I don't know how much we spend in carrots, but it's a big budget. And the Arabian , for the ones who don't know, when they start to be happy, it's a little bit like the dogs with the tails,
Nazi rocket scientists play a big part in this story. The Saudi Arabian investor's named Prince Khalid.
They're just endless. Right? Over to the Arabian border, and I took lots of pictures of myself on top of giant sand dunes making Arrakis jokes. You can tell I'm a nerd.
Then there are various compendiums of wonder tales. And even the Arabian Nights so-called, many of those stories actually originated in India. The journey of that book is very interesting.
the Yirgacheffe. This is a really interesting experience. After the -- from Ethiopia, coffee moved on to the Arabian peninsula, to the Ottoman Empire. I tried to go to the Ottoman Empire. Turns out it's too late. But I went pretty close. This is the old city in Jerusalem where you go there and you think you're in the Ottoman Empire. Actually, it's
exists in an access from from about Libya through the Arabian Peninsula and to Pakistan and perhaps parts of india and south through yemen key individuals in the group right now with the death of
I don't know how much we spend in carrots, but it's a big budget. Because I noticed some Arabians out there, which I happen to have one.
I don't know how much we spend in carrots, but it's a big budget. For the Arabians , we have a lot of Arabians because we do what we call liberty.
-- the way in which we used to think of those who were responsible for Internet censorship, you know, it's the Chinese. It's the Iranians. It's the Saudi Arabians -- are now being replaced by a much more complex, diffuse environment. And a lot of the controls are being downloaded to private actors. And that makes again this whole area much more complex. When Facebook or Twitter or one of these platforms
96% of the people are innocent who get killed, but they call 'em targeted drone bombings. And Al-Qaeda and the Arabian Peninsula just kept getting bigger and bigger because, you know, it's like, yeah, every time you go in there, it's like, okay, you took out one target and then you took out three little girls, and you know, a few.
"Lebanese Cuisine," and many more. She was listed in 2013 in the "Arabian Business" magazine as one of the 100 most influential Arab women, as well as on the 500 most influential Arabs. Anissa's first book, "Lebanese Cuisine" was published just over 25 years ago.
Unfortunately, we know from the world that this has not happened. Because when I was reading the Arabian Nights very intensively, it was the beginning of the war in Syria. And it was clear-- Assad kept coming up in my mind as I read about this sultan who was so extreme and violent.
There is two of the top Arabian horse trainers in the US up there.
And she called it the Arabian Nights.
And interestingly, some of the stories he added are the ones that you all know about. That's when Aladin enters the Arabian Nights, and that's when Ali-Baba enters the Arabian Nights. So oddly, these are actually not Eastern stories at all.
are groups that actually have a direct tie to al-qaeda they have generally renamed themselves over the years we have al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula based out of Yemen we have al-qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb based out of North Africa we've got al Qaeda East Africa al-qaeda in Iraq and al Qaeda affiliates
in this case Albanians that had been simply inspired by among other individuals Anwar al-awlaki one of the senior figures in al-qaida in the Arabian Peninsula to conduct a range of attacks at US military installations in New Jersey including at Fort Dix so al Qaeda now is as you see here really a
the bomb that senior you many bomb maker put together for him was hidden in his case in al-qaida in the Arabian Peninsula have figured out vulnerabilities in the system and have
You are speculative, and you move freely within this Esperanto of fantasy in order to build possible alternative worlds. OK, so "The Arabian Nights" were disseminated throughout the world in hundreds of different versions and variations, in both English and French, and then finally in Arabic.
So I'm going to get myself a half Arabian and-- Very cool.
Sure. I mean, I've never been to the Middle East before. And the United Arab Emirates are right there on the Arabian Peninsula, right next to Saudi Arabia. I thought, this will be super cool.
from the core elements and then even more recently in 2010 with a cargo plane plots that was tied back to al-qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula there are a couple of things that stand out I think as we look at the at the last several years of countering al-qaeda one is that there is
wow well one of my friends I once fed an Arabian out of my hand that's about the closest I got besides the Shetland pony
I don't know how much we spend in carrots, but it's a big budget. So that's why we have a lot of Arabians .
They're mainly coming from I think for mainly from the Saudi Arabian side.
shallow, semi-enclosed sea connected to the Arabian Sea and the wider ocean through the narrow Strait of
And we've talked already about the opening up of the Rift Valley, and the Red Sea, and the Gulf of Aden that drove our own evolution. And it was almost as if a chunk of Africa was torn off as Arabian Peninsula, and has been drifting away ever since. This whole Arabian Peninsula has been swinging away like a barn door caught in the wind.
And one of the ways they became very deeply entangled in our fairy tale tradition was interwoven with the eastern Oriental and Middle Eastern fairytale tradition, was through "The Arabian Nights." "Les Mille et Une Nuit"-- it was published in French first. It was the first print edition of this immense collection of incredibly brilliant and elaborate stories of fantastic
This is just a picture of making the desert green in the Arabian Peninsula as a sort of indicator of the extent to which we
And this is the story that comes out again and again in Arabian mythology with genies.
actually even in fact share your first name but I come from across the Arabian
I don't know how much we spend in carrots, but it's a big budget. Where, if you do that with an Arabian , I'm telling you, he's away as far as he could.
Nazi rocket scientists play a big part in this story. I had to go have three long days of meetings just with the Saudi Arabian lawyers.
I don't know how much we spend in carrots, but it's a big budget. So that's why. So the Arabians like to have movement, and that's why we have a lot for this liberty part.
So you have the big rice platters and the slow-cooked meats that are more like Arabian flavors.
war. Uh they wiped out the is Arab invading Arabian armies in six days.
won't be anything about the client, but it will be about the Saudi Arabian government, which at that time had just
And the old witch, you know, loses her temper, realizes that someone has been getting in, and that Rapunzel is having a baby. So for example, there's one whole cycle of stories within "The Arabian Nights," which is very close to Gilgamesh, in which the hero goes down
um the economic reforms that are taking place in Saudi Arabia are uh are are pushing Saudi Arabian society into a
Said al-Shihri, one of the leaders of al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula, has been killed 12 times this year by the United States.
I think she writes for "Inspire" magazine, which is the publication of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.