Zahra Freeth
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Zahra Freeth (née Dickson) is a British author, the daughter of H. R. P. Dickson and Dame Violet Dickson. She has published several books on the Middle East.
Zahra Freeth was born in the mid-1920s and grew up in Kuwait. She was schooled in England. Her first book was published in 1956: Kuwait Was My Home. She accompanied her husband to the bauxite mining town of Mackenzie, now known as Linden, in British Guiana (now Guyana), and wrote Run Softly, Demerara (1960) about her time there. Her later writings have been on Middle Eastern topics, including a children's book, Rashid of Saudi Arabia which was published in 2001. She lives in Essex, U.K.
[edit] Books by Zahra Freeth
- Kuwait Was My Home London: Allen and Unwin (1956)
- Run Softly, Demerara London: Allen and Unwin (1960)
- A New Look at Kuwait London: Allen and Unwin (1972)
- Kuwait: Prospect and Reality London: Allen and Unwin (1972) with H. V. F. Winstone
- Explorers of Arabia: From Renaissance to the End of the Victorian Era London: Allen and Unwin (1978) edited by H. V. F. Winstone and Zahra Freeth
- "A Journey to Hail" Saudi Aramco World 31(3) (May/June 1980) with H. V. F. Winstone
- The Arab of the Desert by H. R. P Dickson, (1983) 3rd edition revised and abridged, edited by Robert Wilson and Zahra Freeth
- Rashid of Saudi Arabia Lutterworth Press (2001)
- Zahra also wrote the introduction to Traditional Architecture in Kuwait and the Northern Gulf by R Lewcock London: Art and Archaeology Research Papers and The United Bank of Kuwait (1978)
