Tim Mackintosh-Smith

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Tim Mackintosh-Smith (b.1961) is a Yemen-based author.

Mackintosh-Smith lives in an ancient tower house off the "Market of the Cows" in the old city of San'a Yemen. He is the author of the Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph prize winning Yemen: Travels in Dictionaryland (1997), and more recently the first two volumes of his journeys in "the footnotes" of Ibn Batutah; Travels with A Tangerine (2001)and The Hall of a Thousand Columns (2005).

He has written widely on subjects as broad as the collection of frankincense, the stories of M.R. James and the history of umbrellas. He has featured in a documentary film The English Sheik and the Yemeni Gentleman, and is presenting a BBC documentary series recreating the experience of tracing Ibn Batutah's fourteenth century travels into the present day. Despite his refuge in a distant corner of Arabia, Tim has succeeded in becoming celebrated among the literati of Europe and the Americas. He has a treatment for a feature film about the modern day descendants of Ibn Batutah.