Shemlan: A History of the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies

by James Craig

Shemlan, a small, once unknown village in the hills overlooking Beirut, became notorious throughout the Middle East when Bertram Thomas chose it as the location for the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies (MECAS) in 1947. The knowledge that a western government was taking pains to teach its citizens Arabic and inform them of Arab history, society and religion made the Arabs suspicious. The success of MECAS in producing specialists who were the envy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333689674
• ISBN13: 9780333689677
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"