It’s hard in learning, not easy in battle. Malashenko A.V.

This small book is the exciting memoirs of the famous scientist, Doctor of Historical Sciences Alexei Malashenko about how he came to Arabistic-about his student years and work experience in Egypt and Algeria as part of Soviet-Arab military cooperation, about funny and sad stories From the difficult life of “ours” in the east in the seventies and how hard it is to become and be an Arabist, in general an orientalist. And this is also a memory of those with whom I happened to serve and work.