Professor Dr.Kamal Sulieman Salibi Born Bhamdoun, Lebanon 2 May 1929, died Beirut 1 September 2011. A prominent Lebanese historian, professor of history at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and the founding Director (later Honorary President) of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies in Amman, Jordan. His Work: Maronite Historians of Mediaeval Lebanon, Beirut, AUB Oriental Series 34, 1959 The Modern History of Lebanon, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1965 Crossroads to Civil War, Lebanon 1958-1976, Beirut, Caravan Books, 1976 Syria under Islam: Empire on Trial 634-1097, Beirut, Caravan Books, 1977 A History of Arabia, Beirut, Caravan Books, 1980 The Bible Came from Arabia, London, Jonathan Cape, 1985 Secrets of the Bible People, London, Saqi Books, 1988 Who Was Jesus?: Conspiracy in Jerusalem, London, I.B. Tauris, 1988 A House of Many Mansions: The History of Lebanon Reconsidered, 1988 The Historicity of Biblical Israel, London, NABU Publications, 1998 The Historicity of Biblical Israel (second edition), Beirut, Dar Nelson, 2009 The Modern History of Jordan, London, I.B. Tauris, 1993 A Bird on an Oak Tree" (Arabic طائر على سنديانة), Amman, Ashshoroq Publishers, 2002