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Middle East Review of International Affairs
Amman 1970, A Memoir
by Norvell De Atkine
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Abstract
This is the first in a series of memoirs on the Middle East in the 1960s and 1970s. Norvell de Atkine was one of the first Middle East experts trained by the U.S. military. He attended the American University in Beirut, became a U.S. military attache in Jordan, and spent many years working in the Arab world.
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Endnotes
Note *: Colonel (US Army retired) Norvell De Atkine served in artillery units and middle eastern political-military assignments over a 26 years military career. In addition to Lebanon and Jordan he was stationed in Egypt and traveled extensively throughout the Middle East as a Foreign Area officer and in his current position as Director of Middle East Studies at the John F Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, Ft Bragg N.C.Back