When the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989, career diplomat Marcel
Kurpershoek, second in command at the Dutch embassy in Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia, didn’t hear the news for months. That’s because he was on the
move amid some of the most remote reaches of central Saudi Arabia, in
the region called Najd. “I didn’t even have a transistor radio with
me,” he recalls.

What he did have was a cassette tape recorder, an expert knowledge of
Arabic and a passion for meeting Bedouins renowned for Nabati poetry,
the oral vernacular tradition of the desert.

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