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Deen, the first by Ebrahim Kamal-el-Deen entitled A Nation’s Memory and the

second by Hassan M Kamal-el-Deen entitled On the Nation’s Shores: The Scholarly

Reformer Al-Sayed Ali Al-Sayed Ebrahim Kamal-el-Deen. The three publications did

not provide any new information on the topic.

Published and unpublished diaries and papers were also studied. This

included the personal diary of Belgrave found at the University of Exeter’s Special

Collections. The diary offered some insight into the conflict from the Adviser’s

perspective. However although Belgrave mentioned his encounters with British or

Bahraini personalities involved in the crisis, he rarely offered details of those

encounters. Additionally Selwyn Lloyd’s papers and diary at Churchill College

Cambridge were searched which proved to be a disappointment as little information

is provided on the affair. This is in addition to the published diary entries of Sir

Evelyn Shuckburgh (the Foreign Secretary’s Principal Private Secretary 1951-54

and the FO’s Under-Secretary overseeing Middle Eastern affairs 1954-56) known as

Descent to Suez: Diaries 1951-1956: Evelyn Shuckburgh and his unpublished work at

the University of Birmingham. Shuckburgh’s work provided insight onto Eden’s

reaction to events as they unfolded. An account of a diary in Arabic kept by Al-

Shamlan, a frontline member of the nationalist party was collected and published in

Arabic by the late Bahraini journalist Khalid Al-Bassam. The diary entitled Exile

Diaries: Abdul-Aziz Al-Shamlan in Saint Helena 1956-1961 was collected from Al-

Shamlan in the 1980s but was only published in 2007 by Al-Bassam. The published

diary started in late December 1956 and ended in March 1959 though the title might

give a prima facie case that it lasted until 1961 since the editor filled the gap years

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