William Facey Editor & Author

William Facey is a historian and museum planner. He was born in Northern Rhodesia in 1948, and read classics, philosophy and art history at Wadham College, Oxford from 1967 to 1972. His Arabian career began in 1974, since when he has been involved in many museum projects in the region, especially in Saudi Arabia. His books, introductions and articles. cover the history, architecture and early photography of the Arabian Peninsula countries, as well as Arab maritime history, Islam among the British, and Western travellers in Arabia, especially those visiting Islam’s holy cities. He founded Arabian Publishing Ltd in London in 2002, and ran it until 2015, when it was acquired by Medina Publishing Ltd. In 2006, he became a founding trustee of the British Foundation for the Study of Arabia (BFSA), now the International Association for the Study of Arabia (IASA; www.theiasa.com), and served as the book reviews editor of its Bulletin from 2006 till 2019.