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BBC NEWS MAG

Frank McClean: Forgotten Pioneer of the Sky Egypt these days is more intent on eradicating symbols of the past than honouring them. So there is little prospect of a largely forgotten Irishman Franc...

ASIAN AFFAIRS

History in the Arab Skies This is something of a family book. The journalist, Gerald Butt, writes of his childhood flights around the Middle East, where his father worked for the British Bank of t...

AVIATION

Surprising, Revealing, Passion for flying. Imagine you can teleport yourself back to the year 1922 and then imagine that you are flying over 500 miles of unending sand from Cairo to Baghdad withou...

THE MIDDLE EAST

History in the Arab Skies Books in Brief. This month's publications selected from those showcased at the 2011 Sharjah Book Fair. The second book on a list of six selected books was HISTORY IN THE ...

CYPRUS WEEKLY

Taking to the Skies Book by British journalist takes a look at aviation history in Middle East.  Cyprus had served as an escape for people working in Iraq and the Gulf as early as 1832, a newly pu...

GULF TODAY

Flight to Progress The citizens of the world take air travel for granted. Businessmen and women, families, school and university pupils, tourists, shoppers attending festivals take to the air as a...

IRISH TIMES

An Irishman's Diary As evening shadows were beginning to lengthen over the British empire towards the middle of the last century, Egypt continued to bask in imperial sunshine. While never formally ...