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Bygone Heat: Travels of an Idealist in the Middle East

Bygone Heat: Travels of an Idealist in the Middle East

by C . W . R . Long (Author)

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    Paperback 2004

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How couldst thou take such journeys into fanatic Arabia? - Charles M. Doughty, Passages from Arabia Deserta So C.W.R. Long begins his memoir with a quotation from Doughty and answers it affirmatively and with enduring enthusiasm and affection. He tells his story of over thirty years life and work in the Muslim world. He begins at Cambridge, and his career follows the turns and twists of history through Libya, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, the Sudan, Turkey, the UAE, Qatar and Jordan and, above all, Iraq, a country he continues to regard with the utmost affection, understanding and concern.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 254
 Edition: illustrated edition
 Publisher: I B Tauris & Co Ltd
Published: 11 Jun 2004
ISBN 10: 1850436622
ISBN 13: 9781850436621

Author Bio
C.W.R. Long, after National Service in the Army and Cambridge (where he resisted recruitment as a spy) and McGill Universities, joined the Foreign Office in 1962 and began his life-long love affair with Iraq. He served in Baghdad 1963 - 6 and in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office until 1970 when he took up employment with the British Council. Postings followed in London, Beirut, Khartum, Ankara, Abu Dhabi, Amman, Newcastle and Doha and only Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses stopped him going on to Tehran. He later joined the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, first as Director of the International Office and then as Director of Islamic Studies - as which he also taught at Durham University's Centre of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. He has written widely on the Middle East, including the biography Tawfiq al Hakim, Playwright of Egypt, and contributed extensively to The Arab World, Journal of Arabic Literature, Middle East International, Middle Eastern Studies and New Middle East.