Tim Mackintosh-Smith (born 17 July 1961) is a British, Yemen-based, Oxford-educated Arabist, writer, traveller and lecturer.
He has written numerous books on the Middle East, won several awards and has presented a major BBC television series.
Mackintosh-Smith was educated at Clifton College, a boarding independent school for boys in the suburb of Clifton in the port city of Bristol in South West England, from 1971 to 1978,[1] followed by a musical scholarship to the University of Oxford, where he read Classical Arabic.
[2] From 1982 to 2019, Mackintosh-Smith lived in an ancient tower house off the "Market of the Cows" in the old city of San'a, Yemen.
As a consequence of the civil war in Yemen, he had to leave this home and temporarily relocate to Malaysia.