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Sir Hamilton A.R. Gibb, University Professor and James Richard Jewitt Professor of Arable, will retire from the Harvard teaching faculty next summer. He will continue for two years as the Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
Gibb plans to divide his time during the next two years between Cambridge, Mass., where he will continue his leadership of the center, and Oxford, England, where he will do research, lie is currently working on a translation with revisions and noted of The Travels of lbn Buttuta, 1325-1359. Gibb, considered the leading scholar in his field in a specialist on the impact of the West on Arab society.
Derwood W. Lokard, Associate Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, will conduct the center's day-to-day business, as before.
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