Near East Lecturer Reports On Area's Recent Advances
By Irvana Keagy
In his duties as a member of the American Universities Field Staff (AUFS), Alan W. Horton prefers research to writing.
"Eighty per cent of my time is spent writing and 20 per cent gathering information. Gathering the information is more enjoyable," he said.
HORTON, A SPECIALIST in Near East studies, is visiting KU this week as part of the AUFS program. He will be on campus until Oct. 13, speaking to classes on the political and social developments in the United Arab Republic and Syria.
"I interview people, I read literature, and fill in the gaps with conversations with old friends I trust. Then I write." This has become Horton's procedure in preparing his reports.
His topics include social and political changes, current attitudes in the country, and the living conditions.
"I write on what I would like to know if I were going there for the first time." It is a result of "living there a long time."
HORTON'S REPORTS include topics on the Arab summit conference in 1964; the Nubians, a tribe of river people; the National Charter of the United Arab Republic; and the last Pasha, the story of an Egyptian making his way through a social and political revolution.
"In Egypt one lives in a different kind of society and must conform in some measure to that society. There is a greater gap between rich and poor, making for a tighter class system," said Horton.
Daily Kansan Friday, October 8, 1965
HIS UNDERGRADUATE study at Princeton University was interrupted by World War II, but in 1947 he was graduated and went to Cairo on the GI Bill. There he studied and taught in the School of Oriental Studies at the American University in Cairo (AUC).
He was married in 1951 to a British woman and "decided that the only respectable way to show
In 1950, he moved to Gaza in the United Arab Republic and worked among Arab refugees for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.
her the United States was to do it as a graduate student."
He returned to the U.S. and in 1553 received an M.A. degree in social anthropology from Harvard University.
Horton completed his field work in North Syria, and in 1954 returned as dean of the School of Oriental Studies at AUC.
He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1962, and joined the AUFS in February of that year.
The work with the field staff is divided into three-year cycles. He spends two years in the field doing research and writing reports.
The third year he visits each of the 12 AUFS member campuses.
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