Dr.
Fuad Matthew Caswell, BA, MA (London), MSt, DPhil
(Oxon), Barrister
Email: matthew.caswell@hotmail.co.uk
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Fuad Matthew Caswell was born to
a Baghdadi family and arrived in England as a student in 1950. He
pursued courses of study at the University of London (School of Oriental
& African Studies and King’s College) followed by Oxford University (St.
Catherine’s Society). He acquired a B.A. in English and a London M.A. in
Classical Arabic. He met and married a Yorkshire girl
and they started a family, which coincided with several years spent setting
up and running an import venture which was to continue as his Baghdadi
family’s business. The law being always his main interest he then set out on
the path of becoming a barrister, qualifying as a member of the Middle Temple in 1968. To improve his
prospects of establishing a practice at the time he adopted his wife’s name
Caswell and went on to have a long career as a barrister. In 2002 he returned
to academia (Wadham College, Oxford), completing a doctorate in Arabic, the
doctoral thesis appearing in print as The
Slave Girls of Baghdad: The Qiyān in the Early
Abbasid Era.
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Publications
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Limā
al-Ḥarb (in translation Why War?, a
discourse in correspondence between Albert Einstein and Sigmund
Freud).Baghdad 1948. Out of Print.
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Menashi’s Boy, Matador, Leicester, 2010
(A
collection of short stories).
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The Slave Girls of Baghdad: The Qiyān
in the Early Abbasid Era,
I.
B. Tauris, London & New York, 2011.
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Voices of the Arab Streets. Saws and epithets of the Baghdadi street: their place in the colloquial poetry of ‘Abbūd al-Karkhī. Matador, Leicester, 2013.
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Three Master Musicians: Medieval Islamic Music,
Matador, Leicester,
2013.
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Stefan and Other Plays: (A collection of Theatre
Plays) including
(with Daphne Thomas) “Stefan”, first performed under the
title “Ivan” at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London, Feb 1997.
(with Daphne Thomas) “May Day New”, first performed at the New
End Theatre, Hampstead, London, May 1998.
“La
Mort De Roland”
“The
Garden”
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The Khamriyyāt of Abū Nuwās: Medieval
Arabic bacchic poetry
Matador,
Leicester, 2015
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Tales of the Near and Far, (A collection of short
stories), Mira Publishing House, Leeds, 2018.
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One
contribution, “al-Khayzurān”, Encyclopaedia of
Islam, 3rd Edition
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Al-Khayzurān, The Queen of Baghdad (A play of four
acts), World in Panorama CIC, Leeds 2021.
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Houses, World in
Panorama CIC, Leeds, 2021.
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