David McDowall (author)

Born in London in 1945, he attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.{{Cite web|url=https://sandhurstcollection.co.uk/search?action=search&q=David+McDowall&_token=HoRC8zh3lBDy3BvbFghSQ4VTow0u8k3p0y7M5gP4|title=Search - The Sandhurst Collection|website=sandhurstcollection.co.uk}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/43768/supplement/8891|title=Page 8891 | Supplement 43768, 17 September 1965 | London Gazette | The Gazette|website=www.thegazette.co.uk}} and St John’s College, Oxford where he studied Islamic History and Modern Middle East Studies under Albert Hourani{{Cite web|url=https://www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-centre/events/2021/modern-history-of-the-kurds.aspx|title=A Modern History of the Kurds|first=London School of Economics and Political|last=Science|website=London School of Economics and Political Science}}

Royal Artillery, in Britain and Hong Kong, 1965-70;{{Cite web|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/45122/supplement/6415|title=Page 6415 | Supplement 45122, 9 June 1970 | London Gazette | The Gazette|website=www.thegazette.co.uk}} British Council, in Bombay and Baghdad, 1972-77; the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA),{{Cite web|url=https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2021/07/07/book-review-the-cambridge-history-of-the-kurds/|title=Book Review – 'The Cambridge History of the Kurds'|date=July 7, 2021}} Beirut and Vienna, 1977-79; self-employed thereafter, Oxfam{{Cite web|url=https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/79225/html/|title=MEP0019 - Evidence on The UK's policy towards the Middle East Peace Process}} relief worker Lebanon 1982, full-time research and writing from 1983.

Married to writer Elizabeth Laird,{{Cite web|url=http://www.elizabethlaird.co.uk/|title=Elizabeth Laird - Award winning children's author|website=Elizabeth Laird}} in 1975; two children: Angus,{{Cite web|url=https://muckrack.com/angus-mcdowall|title=Angus McDowall's Profile | Reuters Journalist | Muck Rack}} journalist, and William,{{Cite web|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/sustainable/people/dr-will-mcdowall|title=Dr Will McDowall|date=December 13, 2016|website=UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources}} academic.

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{{Cite journal|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-middle-east-studies/article/abs/david-mcdowell-palestine-and-israel-the-uprising-and-beyond-berkeley-university-of-california-press-1989-pp-335/F009B8DA9779A5F3DBE3A31B84399754#|title=David McDowell, Palestine and Israel: The Uprising and Beyond (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989). Pp. 335. | International Journal of Middle East Studies | Cambridge Core|journal=International Journal of Middle East Studies |date=November 1991 |volume=23 |issue=4 |pages=663–665 |doi=10.1017/S0020743800023667 |last1=Talhami |first1=Ghada }}
• 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-cambridge-history-of-the-kurds-a-modern-history-of-the-kurds-david-mcdowall-book-review-diana-darke/|title=Two comprehensive studies of the Kurds}}{{cite journal | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/163876 | jstor=163876 | last1=Entessar | first1=Nader | title=Reviewed work: A Modern History of the Kurds, David McDowall | journal=International Journal of Middle East Studies | date=1997 | volume=29 | issue=1 | pages=153–155 | doi=10.1017/S0020743800064400 }}{{Cite journal|url=https://www.ajis.org/|title=A Modern History of the Kurds, 3d rev. ed.: By David McDowall (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 515 pages.)|first=Othman|last=Ali|date=January 1, 2006|journal=American Journal of Islam and Society|volume=23|issue=1|pages=92–95|via=www.ajis.org|doi=10.35632/ajis.v23i1.1642}}{{Cite web|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/nnp/19257.html|title=The New York Times: Book Review Search Article|website=archive.nytimes.com}}

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{{Cite web|url=https://booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/awards-the-other-award-and-the-observer-teenage-fiction-prize/|title=Awards: The Other Award and The Observer Teenage Fiction Prize – Books For Keeps|website=booksforkeeps.co.uk}}
• 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

{{Reflist}}

• [https://www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-centre/events/2021/modern-history-of-the-kurds A Modern History of the Kurds hosted by the Middle East Centre, LSE]
• [https://oxford.academia.edu/DavidMcDowall David McDowall]

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