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Notes on Contributors

Abdullah Nasif, a graduate of Riyadh University, is working for a Ph.D. at
Manchester University on a dissertation entitled ‘An Historical and
Archaeological Survey of al-‘Ula, with special reference to its irrigation
system’.
Penelope Tuson took a degree in History and is now Assistant Keeper in
charge of Middle East Records at the India Office Library.
Daniel Silverfarb received a Ph.D. in history from the University of
Wisconsin and is taking up a post as a lecturer there in September 1978.
David A. King read Mathematics at Cambridge University (1960-3), Educa­
tion at Oxford University (1963-4), and Near Eastern Languages and
Literatures and History of Science at Yale University (1968-72). Since
obtaining his doctorate in 1972 he has been director of a research project in
the history of Islamic science, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution
and based at the American Research Centre in Egypt.
J. G. Pike is a project manager/water resources specialist with the Food an
Agricultural Organisation. He spent fifteen years in the Colonial Service
and after that worked in Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq before going to
Qatar. He has written two books on Malawi.
R. B. Serjeant is Sir Thomas Adams’s Professor of Arabic at Cambridge
University and Director of the Middle East Centre.
John Peterson took a doctorate in Omani history at Johns Hopkins
University and is now on the staff of the Department of Government,
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. He is at present engaged in research
on ‘Comparative Political Change in Oman and the Yemens’.
Eric Macro served with the R. A.F. in the Middle East for many years and is
the author of a Bibliography of the Yemen and of Yemen and the Western
World (London, 1968) recently published in Arabic.
Robin Bidwell is Secretary of the Middle East Centre in Cambridge and is
working on a book on ‘The Two Yemens’.
Martha Mundy, after reading Arabic at Oxford, is now completing a
dissertation at Cambridge for a Ph.D. on women in North Yemen and is a
Fellow of Girton College.

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