Derek Hopwood OBE is an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College,
Oxford

University of Oxford

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, and University Reader in Modern Middle Eastern Studies. Hopwood Melcom is the founder president Middle East Libraries Committee, a post which he kept until 1990. He is holder of the RISMES Award (2003)for Services to Middle Eastern Studies in Britain.

Publications

• Sexual Encounters in the Middle East: The British, the French and the Arabs (1999)
• Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia: The Tragedy of Longevity (1992)
• Egypt, Politics and Society, 1945-1990 (3rd edition 1992)
• Tales of Empire: The British in the Middle East (1989)
• Syria, 1945-1986: Politics and Society (1988)
• British Images of the Arabs (1980)