Rosemarie Janet Said was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1937, as the eldest of four sisters. Her father, Wadie Said, was a wealthy AnglicanPalestinian businessman and a US citizen, while her mother was born in Nazareth to a Christian family of Palestinian descent.[1] She attended the women's college, Bryn Mawr, United States.[citation needed]
Said Zahlan then taught in Cairo. She then went to Beirut, where she lectured on cultural history and music at the American University of Beirut and the Beirut College for Women. After Beirut, she went to London to get her PhD (about the Red Sea route to India and its 18th-century history pioneer, George Baldwin) at the School of Oriental and African Studies. She was also an honorary research fellow at the University of Exeter's Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies.[2] Said Zahlan would live in London for nearly 4 decades and was "at home" there.[3]
She married Antoine "Tony" Zahlan, a Palestinian physicist and academic from Haifa. Together they championed the Gaza Library Project for supplying books to Palestine. Rosemarie was also a patron of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in Britain.[citation needed]
Bibliography
Zahlan, A. B.; Said Zahlan, Rosemarie: Technology Transfer and Change in the Arab World: The Proceedings of a Seminar of the United Nations Economic Commission for Western AsiaISBN0-08-022435-0 Oxford, United Kingdom: Published for the United Nations by Pergamon Press, 1978
Said Zahlan, Rosemarie: The Origins of the United Arab Emirates. A Political and Social History of the Trucial States Macmillan, NY, 1978
Said Zahlan, Rosemarie: The Creation of Qatar. London: Routledge 1979 (reprinted, 1989)
Said Zahlan, Rosemarie: The Making of the Modern Gulf States: Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman. Ithaca Press, 1998, ISBN0-86372-229-6
