Keswick - Lecture and Buffet Dinner
Keswick - Lecture and Buffet Dinner
Hear Stuart Laing speak about current affairs in the Middle East and enjoy a buffet dinner afterwards.
Stuart Laing was Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge from October 2008 to August 2018, following his first career in the British Foreign Service. He specialised in Arab and Middle Eastern affairs, serving in Saudi Arabia and in Cairo, and then as High Commissioner in Brunei, Ambassador in Muscat, and later in Kuwait. He researches and writes on Arab and East African history. Stuart is co-author (with Robert Alston, another former Ambassador in Muscat) of a book on Omani-British history, Unshook till the end of time. In 2012 he took an MPhil at Cambridge on the abolition of slave trading in the Indian Ocean, and has published a biography of Tippu Tip, the Arab ivory trader of the late 19th century.
The schedule for the evening is
7pm - Meet for drinks in the bar. A welcome drink is included
7.30pm - Talk on Current Affairs in the Middle East by Stuart Laing
8.45pm - Buffet dinner
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