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Ann Wilks (CBE) – Britain’s Man on the Spot in Iraq and Afghanistan
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomThe newly discovered papers and colourfully-written letters of Anglo-Irish Sir Henry Dobbs, which form the backbone of this book, reveal his importance in the development of the modern Middle East. An influential civil servant and Britain's longest serving High Commissioner in Iraq at a time when the British empire was facing increasing challenges to…
Dr David W. Kim – A South Asian Neutral Power: India of the United Nations on the Korean Peninsula (1947-1955)
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomDr James White: Community Formation and the Edges of Empire: Panegyric Poetry in Sanʿaʾ and Isfahan, 1670-1690.
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomDr James White is Departmental Lecturer of Persian Studies at Oxford University. His research focuses on multilingualism and the social uses of poetry in the Middle East and South Asia during the late medieval and early modern periods. Talk Abstract: During the latter half of the seventeenth century, the question of who wielded –…
Look at the Coins! Papers in Honour of Joe Cribb on his 75th Birthday
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom