Diana Darke


Diana Darke is an author, Middle East cultural writer, Arabist and occasional BBC broadcaster. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Sunday Times, the Daily Telegraph and Al Araby. She graduated from Wadham College, Oxford, in 1977, where she studied German and Philosophy/Arabic, then went on to work for the British Government Communications Headquarters and Racal Electronics Plc as an Arabic consultant. In 2005, Darke purchased a 17th-century courtyard house in the Old City of Damascus.
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Publications

Syria, Bradt Travel Guides, 2010,.Oman, Bradt Travel Guides, 2010,.North Cyprus, Bradt Travel Guides, 2012,.Eastern Turkey, Bradt Travel Guides, 2014, My House in Damascus: An Inside View of the Syrian Crisis, Haus Publishing, 2016,.The Merchant of Syria: A History of Survival, Hurst Publishers, 2018,.