Michael Evelyn Adams (1920- ), journalist, was born on the 31st May 1920 in Addis Abba, Ethiopia. He married in Beirut, Lebanon, in July 1958, and now lives in Devon.
After studying at Christ Church, University of Oxford, and becoming a prisoner in Germany during the Second World War, he eventually turned to journalism. He became Middle East correspondent for the Guardian in 1956, where he remained until 1962 when he took a year's sabbatical in Italy. Following his return to the Guardian, he then turned free-lance, but retained informal connections with the paper by writing book reviews and occasional articles. He was virtually the only British journalist to report on Israel's treatment of the Palestinians in 1967.
He has been heavily involved with CAABU since its creation in 1967, and became its first Director. He was Editor of Middle East International until 1981, and has also been Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Politics, University of Exeter, and Research Fellow, Centre for Arab Gulf Studies (now the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies), University of Exeter. He is also involved with the Palestine Studies Trust.
Publications include: Publish it not...: the Middle East Cover Up (with Christopher Mayhew); The Untravelled World: a Memoir ; Suez and after year of Crisis, Umbria, Chaos or Rebirth: the Arab Outlook, The Churches and Palestine ; The Middle East: a Handbook (ed.), The Search for Settlement in the Middle East, Signposts to Destruction: Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Territories .
From the guide to the Papers of Michael Adams, 1953-2003, (University of Exeter)
