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“Arab TV”: Biography of Sheikh Abdullah Philby…and the Amish community

“Arab TV” reviewed the life of politician, traveler and explorer Harry St. John Philby, or as he was later known as “Sheikh Abdullah Philby”, who is considered one of the personalities on whose shoulders the British Empire was established in the Arab East.

An episode of the weekly “Memoirs” program, shown on Thursday evening, recounted the story of Philby’s transformation from an intelligence officer serving the British government to an advisor at the court of King Abdulaziz bin Saud, while he provided interventions to the British author and historian John Hart and the researcher specializing in Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula, Ali Afifi. and others in this regard.

The episode focused on Philby’s relationship with Great Britain, which was marred by ups and downs, because he often violated the policies drawn up by London for the Arab region at the time.

In parallel, “Arab TV” showed in the program “The Strange Neighbor” an episode on the Amish Christian religious sect in the United States. It is an isolated sect that migrated from Germany and Switzerland to America centuries ago, but its members still live in a primitive way and do not use electricity or technology, as if they were historically stuck in the medieval era.

The sect, which has more than a quarter of a million members, lives in closed communities in the United States of America and in the Canadian province of Ontario, and they refuse to integrate into their surrounding society, as they live according to strict Christian religious teachings, becoming a strange and unique neighbor for many Americans.

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