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Rosemarie Said Zahlan
Rosemarie Said Zahlan
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)
Alma mater	Bryn Mawr College; SOAS University of London;
Spouse	Antoine Zahlan
Family	Edward Said (brother); Jean Said Makdisi (sister);

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

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