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EPISODE · Sep 4, 2017 · 18 MIN

"Abdullah and the 1001 Columns of the City of Irem"

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Desert Gems Audio presents Sir Richard Burton’s timeless classic THE CITY OF MANY COLUMNED IRAM AND ABDULLAH SON OF ABI KILABAH.  Abdullah the adventurer: Faisal Yaqub Muwaiyah the Caliph: Kamran Nikhad Ka’ab the scribe: Warren Blackie Special Thanks to King Shadad: Richard Kingston Architects: Anthony Sardinha Sage Al-Shaabi Sean Chiplock Sage Al Salibi : Patrick Seymour Music Qaf – Al Tareeq Ella Tamaher Music Emme Ya Nightside Ov Eden “Abdullah and the 1000 Pillars of Irem” Sound effects from freesound.org Opening and ending credits theme/ "Enter in" Steve Urwin and "Arabian Adventures" by MusicBakery Licensed by Audiosparx.com Desert Gems Audio Mixed COPYRIGHT 2017 ALL rights reserved.  “But the pearls had grown yellow and had lost pearly colour…” "The haunting refrain of Abdullah the adventurer echoes as reaches into a bag of spices, jewels and pearls mouldered by time. No one in the court of Muwiyah the Caliph believes the adventurer's tales of an abandoned city in a lost oasis covered by sands, gleaming with silver and bricks of gold, columns of jeweled chrysolite, sparkling fountains, a paradise of fruit-laden trees and no living souls. An old scribe Ka’ab emerges with a forgotten tale of King Shadad of the ancient tribe of Ad within deepest Africa, and the Lost city of 1000 pillars of Irem. Other ancient scribes emerge from his mind’s eye recalling a flash of fire consuming the majestic city, and grave robbers who dared to read the inscription in stone over the jeweled casket of the Mighty King of Shadad…"

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