Mahmoud

Role, aliases, and summary hidden by structure-only view.

also known as Stinky, Dr. Mahmoud

Linguist and water-brother

Translates Martian; defies seating protocol to sit with Smith; explains the untranslatability of 'grok' and the Martian view of Martian colonization to Jubal and the crew.

In Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein, 1961)