The Flower of Paradise: The Institutionalized Use of the Drug Qat in North Yemen

by John G. Kennedy

Book Overview

This book concerns the use of the drug qat in North Yemen (Yemen Arab Republic), a country lying on the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. However, because this substance is so interwoven into the fabric of society and culture, it is also necessarily about Yemen itself. The history and culture of South Arabia are still relatively unknown to the rest of the world, and the drug qat, so widely used there, is equally unknown. Thus, the material...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556080123
• ISBN13: 9781556080128
• Release Date: March 1987
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"