Barely Surviving Lines: Hamdani Simri from Najd tracing to *Samirah through Koweyt
In 1931, Chicago businessman Albert Harris imported four desert-bred mares from Arabian ruler Abd al-Aziz Ibn Saud with help from the Lebanese poet Amin Rihani. The mares were obtained through Mohammad Eid al-Rawwaf, Consul of the Sultanate of Najd and Hijaz in Damascus (this Sultanate would take the name of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia … Read more