Rosemarie Said Zahlan
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Rosemarie Said Zahlan | |
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روزماري سعيد زحلان | |
 Rosemarie Said Zahlan and brother, Edward, 1940 | |
| Born | Rosemarie Janet Said 20 August 1937 Cairo, Egypt |
| Died | 10 May 2006 (aged 68) |
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| Spouse | Antoine Zahlan |
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Rosemarie Janet Said Zahlan (Arabic: روزماري سعيد زحلان, romanized: Rawzimārī Saʿīd Zaḥlān) (20 August 1937 – 10 May 2006) was a Palestinian-American historian and writer on the Arab states of the Persian Gulf based in London. She was a sister of Edward Said. In addition to her books, she also wrote for the Financial Times, the Middle East Journal, the International Journal of Middle East Studies and the Encyclopedia of Islam.
Biography
[edit]Rosemarie Janet Said was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1937, as the eldest of four sisters. Her father, Wadie Said, was a wealthy Anglican Palestinian businessman and a US citizen, while her mother was born in Nazareth to a Christian family of Palestinian descent.[1] She attended the women's college, Bryn Mawr, United States.[citation needed]
Said Zahlan then taught in Cairo. She then went to Beirut, where she lectured on cultural history and music at the American University of Beirut and the Beirut College for Women. After Beirut, she went to London to get her PhD (about the Red Sea route to India and its 18th-century history pioneer, George Baldwin) at the School of Oriental and African Studies. She was also an honorary research fellow at the University of Exeter's Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies.[2] Said Zahlan would live in London for nearly 4 decades and was "at home" there.[3]
She married Antoine "Tony" Zahlan, a Palestinian physicist and academic from Haifa. Together they championed the Gaza Library Project for supplying books to Palestine. Rosemarie was also a patron of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in Britain.[citation needed]
Bibliography
[edit]- Zahlan, A. B.; Said Zahlan, Rosemarie: Technology Transfer and Change in the Arab World: The Proceedings of a Seminar of the United Nations Economic Commission for Western Asia ISBN 0-08-022435-0 Oxford, United Kingdom: Published for the United Nations by Pergamon Press, 1978
- Said Zahlan, Rosemarie: The Origins of the United Arab Emirates. A Political and Social History of the Trucial States Macmillan, NY, 1978
- Said Zahlan, Rosemarie: The Creation of Qatar. London: Routledge 1979 (reprinted, 1989)
- Said Zahlan, Rosemarie: The Making of the Modern Gulf States: Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman. Ithaca Press, 1998, ISBN 0-86372-229-6
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Out of the shadows". The Guardian. September 11, 1999. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
- ^ "Rosemarie Zahlan". The Times. May 26, 2006. Retrieved April 12, 2024.
- ^ Brittain, Victoria (May 16, 2006). "Rosemarie Said Zahlan". The Guardian. Retrieved April 12, 2024.
- Rosemarie Said Zahlan: Historian of the Gulf states whose heart was in Palestine, Obituary by Victoria Brittain, The Guardian, May 16, 2006
- Rosemarie Zahlan: Expert on the Gulf states and defender of the Palestinians Obituary, The Times, 2006
External links
[edit]- Book Review Archived May 20, 2009, at the Wayback Machine by Brooks Wrampelmeier, in the Middle East Policy Council
- 1937 births
- 2006 deaths
- 20th-century Palestinian historians
- 20th-century Palestinian women writers
- Academics from Cairo
- Academics from London
- Academic staff of the American University of Beirut
- Academic staff of Lebanese American University
- Alumni of SOAS University of London
- American emigrants to England
- American expatriates in England
- American people of Lebanese descent
- American people of Palestinian descent
- American women historians
- Bryn Mawr College alumni
- Egyptian people of Palestinian descent
- Middle Eastern studies in the United States
- Palestinian academics
- Palestinian Anglicans
- Palestinian emigrants to the United Kingdom
- Palestinian expatriates in the United Kingdom
- Palestinian people of Lebanese descent
- Palestinian women academics
- Palestinian women historians
- People associated with the University of Exeter
- Said family
- Writers from Cairo