David Buchanan McDowall (born 1945) is a British author specialising in Middle Eastern and British history.

Contents

• Early life
• Career
• Personal life
• Selected publications
• References
• External links

Early life

Born in London in 1945, he attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. ^{[1] [2]} and St John’s College, Oxford where he studied Islamic History and Modern Middle East Studies under Albert Hourani ^[3]

Career

Royal Artillery, in Britain and Hong Kong, 1965-70; ^[4] British Council, in Bombay and Baghdad, 1972-77; the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), ^[5] Beirut and Vienna, 1977-79; self-employed thereafter, Oxfam ^[6] relief worker Lebanon 1982, ^[6] full-time research and writing from 1983.

Personal life

Married to writer Elizabeth Laird, ^[7] in 1975; two children: Angus, ^[8] journalist, and William, ^[9] academic.

Selected publications

Middle East

• Lebanon: A Conflict of Minorities (Minority Rights Group, 1983), ISBN 0 946 690 07 3.
• Palestine and Israel: The Uprising and Beyond (IBTauris, 1989), ISBN 1 85043 131 0, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1990), ISBN 0-520 0602 1 ^[10]
• Europe and the Arabs: Discord or Symbiosis? (Royal Institute for International Affairs, 1992), ISBN 0 905031 53 9
• A Modern History of the Kurds (IBTauris, London & New York, 1996, 1997 2000 and 4th ed., 2021) ISBN 978 0 7556 0079 3. ^{[11] [3] [12] [13] [5] [14]}

Britain

• An Illustrated History of Britain (Longman, 1989) ISBN 9780582749146
• Britain in Close-up (Longman, 1993), ISBN 9780582064614
• Hampstead Heath (co-authored by Deborah Wolton, Frances Lincoln 2007), ISBN 9780711226531

Children's books

• The Palestinians (Franklin Watts, 1986), ISBN 978 0 86313 484 5, winner of The Other Award 1987 ^[15]
• The Columbus Project Book (Hodder, 1992), ISBN 9780340527801
• The Spanish Armada (Batsford, 1988), ISBN 9780713456714.

British landscape guides

• Richmond Park: The Walker’s Guide (1996, 2006), ISBN 9780952784746
• Hampstead Heath: The Walker’s Guide co-author Deborah Wolton, (1998, 2021), ISBN 9781838198015
• The Thames from Hampton to Richmond Bridge: The Walker’s Guide (2002), ISBN 9780952784722
• The Thames from Richmond to Putney Bridge: The Walker’s Guide (2005), ISBN 9780952784739
• Windsor Great Park: The Walker’s Guide (2007, 2021), ISBN 9781838198008.
• Bute: A Guide (2010) ISBN 9780952784777
• West Surrey: Walks into History (2013) ISBN 9780952784784

References

External links

• A Modern History of the Kurds hosted by the Middle East Centre, LSE
• David McDowall

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