The Lands Between Author:John S. Badeau Being the president of the Near East Foundation, the former president of the American University at Cairo, Egypt, and in 1928 serving as a civil and sanitary engineer for the United Mission in Mesopotamia, John Badeau has a personal, comprehensive, and timely knowledge of the Middle East. In 1932 he saw the endings of the British Mandate in Iraq... more » and the Assyrian revolt which followed it. He was present in Egypt in 1936 when King Farouk came to the throne and the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty was signed; he saw this same treaty denounced in 1951 and the king deposed in 1952. An ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A., Mr. Badeau is an author and lecturer who is widely known as an able and sympathetic interpreter of the Middle East.« less