Roger Owen, The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012.
Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?
Roger Owen (RO): I was intrigued by..
Roger Owen is currently the A. J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History at Harvard University and a former director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the same university. He previously taught Middle East political and economic history at Oxford University, where he was also many times the Director of the St Antony`s College Middle East Centre. His books include Cotton and the Egyptian Economy, The Middle East in the World Economy: 1800-1914, and State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East (3rd revised edition, 2004). He is also the co-author (with Sevket Pamuk) of A History of the Middle East Economies in the Twentieth Century. He has written a biography of Evelyn Baring, the first Lord Cromer, Lord Cromer: Victorian Imperialist, Edwardian Proconsul, which was published by Oxford University Press in January 2004. His most recent book is The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life, published by Harvard University Press in May 2012. He has written a regular column for the Arabic newspaper, Al-Hayat, since the late 1980s.