John Reddaway
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John Reddaway CMG, OBE (12 April 1916 – 25 June 1990) was a diplomat who served as Deputy Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), 1960–68.
He was born in Ilford and educated at Ilford County High School and the University of Reading.
Career: Colonial Administrative Service, Cyprus, 1938; Imperial Defence College, 1954; Administrative Secretary, Cyprus, 1957–60; Deputy Commissioner-General, United Nations Relief and Works Agency, 1960–8; Director-General, Arab-British Centre, London, 1970–80.
He was awarded the OBE in 1957 and the CMG in 1959.
As Director of the Arab-British Centre,[1] he was involved in Paris with (in French) Lucien Bitterlin's EURABIA Committee ("European Coordinating Committee of Friendship Societies with the Arab World") where he represented the Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding. He co-signed some publications of this EURABIA Committee.[2]
In 1970 he joined Christopher Mayhew, Claud Morris and Anthony Nutting as a director of Middle East International, a bi-weekly journal focused on the Arab world. It was originally funded by Sheikh Zayed, the newly installed leader of the United Arab Emirates.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Between 1970 and 1980, see Routledge Guide to British Political Archives.
- ^ See at the Bibliothèque nationale de France Europe Pays Arabes 1973 and Bulletins Eurabia 1975-1976, especially Bulletins n° 17, 18, 29 (february, march and november 1974).—At the British Library (1), (2) and (3).
- ^ Morris, Claud (1996) The Last Inch, a Middle Eastern Odyssey. Kegan & Paul International, ISBN 0-7103-0552-4 pp.13,206
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