Noel Brehony Editor & Author

Noel Brehony is currently Chairman of the British Yemeni Society and the Anglo-Jordanian Society. He has also been Chairman of the Middle East Association and the Council for British Research in the Levant and President of the British Society of Middle East Studies. Brehony had a career as a diplomat after completing a PhD from Durham and post doctoral research in the Middle East. He was in Aden in the early years of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and followed events there until unity in 1990. Brehony is the author of Yemen Divided: the Story of a Failed State in South Arabia and co-editor of British-Egyptian Relations from Suez to the Present Day. He is on the Advisory Board of the London Middle East Institute at SOAS.