Spoken Arabic of Mesopotamia

?THE WORDS USED ARE UNIVERSALLY UNDERSTOOD IN MESOPOTAMIA? Small 8vo, Ex-libris: ownership label of Francis E.B. Witts to the front pastedown. In the original blue cloth boards with gilt titles to the spine; lightly rubbed along the edges In very good condition. pp, vi, (2), 256. Oxford. University Press for the Administration of the Territories of Iraq in British Occupation.1918 A standard text for instructors for Mesopotamian Arabic. Van Ess (1878-1949) was an American Missionary. He spent nearly fifty years in Mesopotamia and astuediy considered that the tribe needed to operate on tribal loyalties rather than as a political entity. This put him in opposition against Gertrude Bell and T.E. Lawrence. Uncommon.