Jill Edwards (editor) - El Alamein and the Struggle for North Africa: International Perspectives from the Twenty-first Century

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Edwards, Jill

El Alamein and the Struggle for North Africa: International Perspectives from the Twenty-first Century/ Jill Edwards. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2012

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Battles of El Alamein, 1942

Mohamed Awad is director of the Alexandria and Mediterranean Research Center at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. A professional architect and historian of architecture, Awad lectures at Alexandria University. As an ardent conservationist, he is the founder of the Alexandria Preservation Trust, an NGO for the documentation and protection of Alexandrias architectural heritage.

Niall Barr is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and reader in military history, Kings College, University of London. He is based at the Defence Studies Department, the Joint Services Command, and Staff College. Among Barrs many publications are Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El Alamein (2004), and The Lion and the Poppy: British Veterans, Politics and Society 19211939 (2005).

Aldino Bondesan is professor of geomorphology at the University of Padua, Italy. Bondesan is director of the El Alamein Geomorphic Project on the Alamein Battlefields, and leads teams of scientists in the comprehensive excavation, investigation, and analysis of the Alamein sites using latest technology and incorporating archival research. www.qattara.it/30-00%20Prg_files/slide0222.htm

Antulio J. Echevarria II served in the U.S. Army for twenty-three years. Echevarria is currently director of research for the U.S. Army War College. His publications include Clausewitz and Contemporary War (2007), Imagining Future War (2007); and After Clausewitz (2001). He has published extensively in scholarly and professional journals on topics related to military history and theory and strategic thinking.

Jill Edwards is professor of international history at the American University in Cairo, and fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Edwards publications include Anglo-American Relations and the Franco Question, 19451955 (1999) and The British Government and the Spanish Civil War, 19361939 (1979); she is editor of Historians in Cairo: Essays in Honor of George Scanlon (2002) and Al-Alamein Revisited (2000).

Sahar Hamouda is director of the Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies and deputy director of the Alexandria and Mediterranean Research Center at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Hamouda is professor and chair of the department of English language and literature at Alexandria University. Among her many publications is the recent book Once Upon a Time in Jerusalem (2010).

Glyn Harper was until recently head of the Centre for Defence and Security Studies, Massey University, New Zealand. Now Harper heads Masseys major research project in partnership with New Zealands Defence Force for the Centenary History of New Zealand and the First World War. His recent publications are Massacre at Passchendaele: The New Zealand Story (2012) and Letters from Gallipoli: New Zealand Soldiers Write Home (2011).

Nick Hewitt is head of attractions and collections at the Portsmouth Naval Base Property Trust, UK. He was previously a historian at the Imperial War Museum. He has appeared in the BBCs Coast series, and productions for the History Channel. Among other publications is his book, Coastal Convoys, 193945: The Indestructible Highway (2008).

James Jacobs is resident military historian at the South African Army College. Jacobs lectures on the junior and senior command and staff programs at the South African National War College. He is a distinguished lecturer and writer on military history.

Alan Jeffreys is senior curator of social history at the Imperial War Museum. His publications include The British Army in the Far East (2005); he is coeditor of The Indian Army 19391947 (2012). He is currently working on Training the Indian Army, 193945, and is coeditor of the academic history series India at War.

William Roger Louis is professor of history at the University of Texas, Austin, and fellow of St Antonys, Oxford. A past president of the American Historical Association, and present director of the AHAs National History Center, Louis was chair of the Department of State Historical Advisory Committee (resigned 2008), and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011. Author of many books, he is currently editor in chief of The Oxford History of the British Empire.

Rmy Porte is director of the research department of the Centre de Doctrine dEmploi des Forces at the cole Militaire, Paris. A lieutenant colonel in the French Army, Portes publications include La Mobilisation industrielle: premier Front de la Grande Guerre? (2006). He was a principal speaker at the recent University of Cambridge Conference Forgetful Allies: Truth, Myth and Memory in the Two World Wars and After, September 2011.

Thomas Scheben graduated in Islamic Studies at Mainz University. Scheben entered politics, later becoming a newspaper correspondent. He was director of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Cairo for five years, and is currently deputy director of the Press and Information Department of the city of Frankfurt am Main. As a researcher, he has published on Ottoman history and warfare in the Mediterranean.

Peter Stanley heads the Centre for Historical Research at the National Museum of Australia. From 1980 to 2007 he worked at the Australian War Memorial, where he was principal historian. A fellow of the Royal Historical Society, his many books include Digger Smith and Australias Great War (2011); Invading Australia: Japan and the Battle for Australia, 1942 (2008); with Mark Johnston Alamein: The Australian Story (2002, new ed. 2006); Quinns Post: Anzac, Gallipoli (2005).

Harry Tzalas is president of the Hellenic Institute for the Preservation of Nautical Tradition, an Athens-based scientific institution specializing in marine archaeology and nautical experimental archaeology. He has organized many international conferences on Greek ship construction in antiquity. Since 1998 Tzalas has led a team of underwater archaeologists diving at Alexandria, Egypt, for ancient and medieval shipwrecks. He is author of the short story collection Farewell to Alexandria, published in 2000 by The American University in Cairo Press.