‘To understand a people, acquaint yourself with their proverbs’ runs an Arab adage, and here are the books that do just that.
The popular Apricots Tomorrow, a selection of sayings from the Gulf region, was the first in the series and is now joined by its sister titles The Son of a Duck is a Floater and Unload your own Donkey, which draws on sayings from the Maghreb and Levant.
Pairing age-old Arabic sayings with English equivalents, the proverbs highlight the uncanny similarity of inherited wisdom in the East and West.
