Arabs

by Edward Atiyah

282 pages, Hardcover

Published December 1, 1968

About the author

Edward Selim Atiyah was a Lebanese author and political activist. He was born in 1903 and died in 1964. He is best known for his 1946 autobiography An Arab Tells His Story, and his 1955 book The Arabs. The Thin Line, (a crime novel, later issued as Murder, My Love), was filmed by Claude Chabrol, as Juste Avant La Nuit, (Just Before Nightfall), 1971.

He went to England to study at Brasenose College, Oxford Universityand there met and married a Scottish woman, Jean Levens. They had four children, including the renowned mathematician, Sir Michael Atiyah and Patrick Atiyah, an academic and professor of law.

He served as secretary of the Arab League office in London.