Abstract
For many centuries, European cartographers labeled the southwest corner of the otherwise mostly desert Arabian Peninsula as Arabia Felix, or “Happy Arabia.” It was a place where towering mountains trapped clouds blown in from the Indian Ocean so that twice-annual monsoon rains blessed terraced slopes and lowland wadis with plentiful crops. Sadly, since fighting engulfed the country in late March 2015, Yemen has never been less felix.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2017
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Copyright © 2017 Current History. This article first appeared in Current History 116: 794 (2017), 360-362.
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Recommended Citation
Carapico, Sheila. "Perspective: Arabia Infelix: The War Devouring Yemen." Current History 116, no. 794 (2017): 360-362.