Rosemarie Said Zahlan (Arabic: روزماري سعيد زهلان Rōsemarē Sa‘id Zahlān) (August 20, 1937 - May 10, 2006) was a Palestinian-American historian and writer on the Gulf states. She was a sister of Edward Said. In addition to her books, she also wrote for the Financial Times, the Middle East Journal, the International Journal of Middle East Studies and the Encyclopedia of Islam.
Said Zahlan was born in Cairo in 1937, as the eldest of four sisters. H...
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Rosemarie Said Zahlan (Arabic: روزماري سعيد زهلان Rōsemarē Sa‘id Zahlān) (August 20, 1937 - May 10, 2006) was a Palestinian-American historian and writer on the Gulf states. She was a sister of Edward Said. In addition to her books, she also wrote for the Financial Times, the Middle East Journal, the International Journal of Middle East Studies and the Encyclopedia of Islam.
Said Zahlan was born in Cairo in 1937, as the eldest of four sisters. Her father, Wadie Said, was a wealthy Anglican Palestinian businessman and an American citizen, while her mother was born in Nazareth of Christian Lebanese and Palestinian descent. She attended the women's college, Bryn Mawr, USA, where she took a degree in musicology. In a serious car accident her hands were injured and several vertebrae broken. This made a musical career playing the piano impossible.
After Bryn Mawr, Rosemarie taught for a while in Cairo. She then went to Beirut, where she lectured on cultural history and music at the...
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