William FaceyWilliam Facey is a historian and museum planner. He was born in Northern Rhodesia in 1948 and studied classics, philosophy and art history at Wadham College, Oxford from 1967 to 1972. His career in Arabia began in 1974 and since then, he has been invlved in many museum projects throughout the region, particularly in Saudi Arabia. His books, introductions and articles explore the history, architecture and early photography of the Arabian Peninsula, along with Arab maritime history, Islam among the British and Western travellers in Arabia, with a focus on those visiting Islam's holy cities. He founded Arabian Publishing Ltd in London in 2002 and ran it until 2015, when it was acquired by Medina Publishing Ltd. In 2006, he became a founding trustee of the British Foundation for the Study of Arabia (BFSA), now the International Association for the Study of Arabia (IASA; www.theiasa.com) and served as the book review editor of its Bulletin from 2006 till 2019. Read More Read Less