James Barr (born 1976) is a British author of a number of historical works on the

Middle East The Middle East ( ar, الشرق الأوسط, ISO 233: ) is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabian Peninsula, Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Anatolia, Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Pro ...

. He is currently a visiting fellow at

King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...

Biography

Barr read modern history at

Lincoln College, Oxford Lincoln College (formally, The College of the Blessed Mary and All Saints, Lincoln) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, situated on Turl Street in central Oxford. Lincoln was founded in 1427 by Richard Fleming, the ...

. In 2006, Barr's history on

Lawrence of Arabia Thomas Edward Lawrence (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer who became renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt (1916–1918) and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign (1915–1918 ...

and the British war effort in the Middle East was published by Bloomsbury. His second book, ''A Line in the Sand'', on Anglo-French rivalry in the Middle East during the interwar period and World War II, appeared in 2011. He has worked for the ''

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'', and in Westminster and in London.

Publications

*''Setting the Desert on Fire: T. E. Lawrence and Britain's Secret War in Arabia, 1916-1918'' (2006) *''A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle that Shaped the Middle East'' (2011). Paperback (2012), *''Lords of the Desert: Britain's Struggle with America to Dominate the Middle East'' (2018).

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