At the moment I am studying Arabic at a furious pace at the University of Edinburgh under the auspices of the newly formed and funded Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW). Assuming that all goes well, in April I’ll be off to sunny Cairo to continue with the Arabi. After all this I will go back to Durham University to (essentially) start my PhD.
I started out studying International Relations at the University of St. Andrews and went from there to Nottingham University to complete my Masters degree in Diplomacy. After this I decided to go abroad for a time. I arrived in Kuwait in September 2005 and left in May 2007. I taught in a British International School which was - to say the least - an enlightening experience. I also used Kuwait as a jumping off point to travel throughout the Levant and much of the Arabian Peninsula, to have a few wonderful holidays in Sri Lanka and Thailand, an underwhelming trip from Syria to Hungary via Italy, and an epic odyssey from Istanbul by car, boat, train, taxi, bus, bike, tractor and Llama to Shanghai via the ‘Stans.
Legal!
By the way, everything here is totally under my copy-write. Any stealing of my stuff will result in instant legal dismemberment by a trained team of vicious lawyers.
