‘The Arab Bureau’ and ‘The Arab Revolt’ (translated from the Arabic)
Date: Fri Oct 30 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) at 17:30
Location: In-Person attendance: McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College, CB2 1RH
Dr Eamonn Gearon is a historian, author and lecturer who has spent thirty years living and working across the Middle East and North Africa. He holds a DPhil from Oxford and has taught at Oxford, Johns Hopkins-SAIS, and the American University in Cairo (AUC). He delivers diplomatic training for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), has written and recorded four lecture series on Middle Eastern history for The Great Courses, and is a former foreign correspondent. A Fellow of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Historical Society, his books include The Sahara: A Cultural History (2011), The Arab Bureau (2026), and The Arab Revolt (2026), a world-first translation from the Arabic of the Arab Bureau’s most revolutionary work of propaganda. About this event In 19
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