Nadia Durrani

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Dr Nadia Durrani, archaeologist.

Nadia Durrani is the editor of the best-selling archaeology magazine Current World Archaeology.

Nadia read archaeology and anthropology at Cambridge University, and took her doctorate on the archaeology of pre-Islamic Yemen at the Institute of Archaeology, London.

She has travelled widely throughout the world, covering diverse archaeological sites in a professional capacity.

She gives talks on archaeology, notably as a guest lecturer on archaeological tours in the Middle East.

Despite her wide-ranging work in the Middle East, her mother is German and her father's family originate from Afghanistan.


[edit] Books

Durrani has written two books:

  • "The Tihamah Coastal Plain of South-West Arabia in its Regional Context"; see D'mt.
  • "In Search of the Zeppelin War" (with Neil Faulkner).

[edit] Other

  • Chair - Seminar for Arabian Studies [[1]]
  • Chair - Archaeology 2008 [[2]]

[edit] Sources


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