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Rosemarie Said Zahlan (August 20, 1937 - May 10, 2006) was a Palestinian-American Christian historian specializing in Persian Gulf studies. She is the sister of Edward Said. In addition to her books, Rosemary has also written for the Financial Times, Middle East Review, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies and the Encyclopedia of Islam.
Rosemary Said was born in Cairo in 1937, the eldest of four sisters. Her father, Wadih Said, was a wealthy Palestinian Christian businessman and an American citizen, while her mother is from Nazareth, of Lebanese and Palestinian descent. Rosemary taught music at Bryn Mawr College for Women, Pennsylvania, where she learned it; But she did not practice as a result of a car accident that injured her hands and fractured several vertebrae in her back, making Rosemay's musical career as a pianist impossible.
After Bryn Mawr, Rosemary taught for a while in Cairo. Then she went to Beirut, where she gave lectures on cultural and musical history at the American University of Beirut and the Beirut College for Women. After Beirut, I went to London and obtained a PhD (On the Red Sea Route to India in the Nineteenth Century, George Baldwin), at the School of Oriental and African Studies.
Rosemary Said Zahlan was married to Antoine Zahlan, a Palestinian academic physicist from Haifa. Together, they defended the Gaza Library project to supply books to Palestine. Rosemary was also a patron of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign in Britain and, according to The Times, "her lifelong concern was for Palestine and the suffering of the Palestinian people".
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Rosemary Said Zahlan: Technology Transfer and Change in the Arab World: Proceedings of the United Nations Economic Commission for Western Asia Symposium Oxford, United Kingdom: Published for the United Nations by Pergamon Press, 1978.
Rosemary Said Zahlan: The Origins of the United Arab Emirates. A Political and Social History of the Trucial States Macmillan, New York, 1978.
Rosemary Said Zahlan: The Creation of Qatar. London: Routledge 1979 (Reprinted, 1989).
Rosemary Said Zahlan: The Making of Modern Gulf States: Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman. Ithaca Press, 1998.
Book review by Brooks & Rampelmeyer?, at the Council on Middle East Policy.
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