Sami Zubaida was born in 1937 in Iraq. He left Iraq in 1953 at the age of sixteen.
Sami Zubaida. He is now an

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and

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and, as a Visiting Hauser Global Professor of Law in Spring 2006, taught Law and Politics in the Islamic World at

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School of Law. He is a regular participant at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, and organized a conference at the London

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, in 1992, which focused on the culinary cultures of the Middle East. The conference papers were published in book form in 1994.

Writings

* 1994 (editor, with Richard Tapper) : ''Culinary Cultures of the Middle East''. London: I. B. Tauris.

Bibliography

* Robert Irwin, "In the Caliph's Kitchen" in ''

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'' (23 December 1994) p. 10 eview of ''Culinary Cultures of the Middle East''

References

External links

Zubaida's web page at U. London website
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