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M. J. S. Allen is a member of the Diplomatic Service who before joining travelled
extensively in Jordan and the Arabian Peninsula where he gained practical
experience of falconry.
G. R. Smithy after taking a degree in Arabic at the School of Oriental and
African Studies, University of London, served in the Aden Student’s Office and
as a Political Officer in South Arabia. He is now Assistant Lecturer in Arabic at
Cambridge University.
Dr J. H. Stevens is a Lecturer in Social Sciences in the Faculty of Geography,
Durham University. He is regarded as a world authority on arid soils.
Mohammad Morsy Abdullah is Director of the Centre for Research and
Documentation, Ministry of Cabinet Affairs, Abu Dhabi. He is at present at
Cambridge where he is completing a doctoral thesis on British policy in the
Trucial States.
Dr James Kirkman had considerable experience of the Middle East as an
archaeologist and official before becoming Warden of the Coastal Historical Sites
of Kenya. While in this post he published archaeological and historical works
particularly in connection with the Arab city of Gedi. He has just published a
study of the Portuguese fort at Mombasa. He has now retired to live in
Cambridge.
Robert Wilson has just completed his B.A. degree in Arabic at Cambridge. In
1972/3 he lived in Hajjah for nine months teaching English, and intends to study
the historical geography of the Yemen.

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