The Corsair

by Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud

It’s the early nineteenth century and piracy in the Gulf threatens globalmaritime trade routes. Britain, eager to reinforce its presence in the MiddleEast and protect its interests, sends an Englishman to quash the pirateswhile persuading Egypt to join an international alliance with Oman andPersia to fight against the Wahabbis. But Erhama bin Jaber, a historicalfigure and one of the most notorious pirates in the Gulf, has his ownagenda and his own vendettas.

320 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 13, 2013

About the author

Abdul Aziz Al Mahmoud is a Qatari engineer and journalist. He has a BA in engineering from Clarkson University in New York and an aviation and engineering diploma from the UK. He worked as editor-in-chief of Alsharq and The Peninsula newspapers as well as www.aljazeera.net. This is his first novel.