[FREE IRAN Project] In The Spirit Of Cyrus The Great

[Azadeh_55]

This guy calles the Persian Gulf, by the fake name of "Arabian Gulf" in most of his work. E-mail Georgetown university and omplain for using this phony name.

http://www.intelligencesquared.com/event_future.php?d=20040518

Speakers against the motion:

Andrew Wheatcroft is a historian, currently Director of the Centre for Publishing Studies at the University of Stirling, Scotland. The author or editor of more than seventeen books; his most recent work has focused on the connections between the Islamic and the Western world. “Infidels: a history of the conflict between Christendom and Islam” has just been published as a Penguin in London, and by Random House Inc in New York. His chapters in “Cradle and Crucible: History and Faith in the Middle East” (National Geographic Press. 2004) traced the history of the region from late antiquity to the First World War. His earlier books included the innovative “Ottomans: dissolving images” (1993) and then focused on the Arabian Gulf, notably 20th century Bahrain and the development of the United Emirates. One of the first scholars to use photography to write the history of the Middle East, he has made art and images a central focus of his work. His books have been translated into eleven languages.