Gerard Russell
Autor(a) de Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East
Obras por Gerard Russell
Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East (2014) 364 exemplares
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Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1973
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
UK (birth) - Locais de residência
- London, England, UK
- Educação
- Oxford University (Balliol College)
- Ocupações
- Foreign Service Officer (UK)
- Organizações
- Carr Center for Human Rights, Kennedy School (Harvard)
Foreign Policy Center
New American Library. International Security Program - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Order of the British Empire
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Gerard Russell is a Senior Associate at the Foreign Policy Centre in London, and a Senior Fellow with the International Security Program at the New American Foundation. He was a diplomat for 15 years, serving in the British Foreign Office and the United Nations, and speaks fluent Arabic and Sari. Russell is a member of the Order of the British Empire and lives in London. [from Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms (2014)]
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 1
- Membros
- 364
- Popularidade
- #66,014
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Críticas
- 16
- ISBN
- 13
- Línguas
- 2
Essentially a travel memoir, but focused on minority religious groups still in existence in the Middle East. While some are monotheistic, others polytheistic, none are Abrahamic/"of the Book". A passive interest of mine whenever studying or travelling in the Middle East, I definitely appreciated being along for the ride.
The book only lets itself down by never deciding whether to be a stricter more academic work, or a travel memoir. I was frustrated a few times by it being one for a while and then suddenly switching to the other. I would happily have read one of each from this author.… (mais)