| Description | Various papers, some confidential, relating to staffing issues at the Centre for Arab Gulf Studies (CAGS). These include letters discussing academic appointments, an application for a research fellowships, some documents and a presscutting relating to the departure of three staff members for Durham in 1993, departmental minutes and memoranda, discussion of the Arab Gulf Studies Review, its criticisms and recommendations for the future of CAGS, including using endowed funds for a professorial chair, and a letter from Ayubi to Professor Stephen Wilks (24 July 1995) about possible candidates. There is also a letter from David Seddon to Ayubi (3 November 1995) praising his book 'Over-stating the Arab State' and suggesting a collaborative research project based on some of its contents. |