Sir David Gilmour

After leaving Oxford University in 1974 David Gilmour went to Beirut to work for the Institute for Palestine Studies and the Lebanese Association for Information on Palestine. On his return to England, he became Director of Information at CAABU (The Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understandin g) and deputy editor at MIddle East International. He also wrote two books, Dispossessed; the Ordeal of the Palestinians and Lebanon: the Fractured Country. Until 1992 he and Edward Said were the two chief writers on the MIddle East for the London Revew of Books.