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Lichtenstadter, whose research focused on Middle Eastern and Asian societies, received Ph.D.'s from the University of Frankfurt am Main in 1931 and from Oxford University in 1937. She moved to the United States in 1938, taking a post as Cataloguer of Judaica in the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York...
Born in Rugby, England, Knowles attended Magdalen College School and then spent two years as a pilot officer in the Royal Air Force. At Oxford University he took a B.A. with first class honors in 1959 and an M.A. and D.Phil...
After completing her graduate studies at Oxford, Bhutto spent the next five years in and out of prisons. Even while under house arrest, she formed the Pakistan People's Party and came to power in 1988, after Zia died in a plane crash...
...Iraq fared much better," says Marlowe. The gulf war is not the first conflict that Marlowe has covered for TIME. Since 1989 she has lived in Beirut, where she reported the last throes of the Lebanese civil war. Born in Whittier, Calif., and educated at UCLA, the Sorbonne and Oxford, Lara previously worked in the Middle East for American and European newspapers and as an associate producer in Paris for CBS's 60 Minutes...
...editor of both the book and the journal is Owen Harries, whose background tilts him toward the internationalists. An Oxford-educated Welshman who was a professor in Australia and a diplomat in Paris before moving to Washington eight years ago, he admits he is surprised by the "strain of withdrawal" that has emerged among some of his authors...