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Russell Harris

Russell Harris has an MA in Oriental Studies from Balliol College, Oxford. His duties in the Department of Academic Research and Publications at the Institute of Ismaili Studies include editing entries for the Encyclopaedia Islamica, writing and improving etymologies, picture research, proofing and consulting on translations of Arabic texts, most usually for the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ series

He is a contributor to the Dictionary of National Biography, The Routledge Encyclopedia of 19th Century Photography and The Oxford Companion to Food. He has written many articles on Middle Eastern art for various international journals and magazines and has published books on portraits of India's ruling princes from the archives of the V&A Museum and the National Portrait Gallery. He has also curated exhibitions of historic photographs in institutions throughout Europe and the Middle East as well as being a published literary translator.

Source: Institute of Ismaili Studies website

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  • Cover of: The Lafayette Studio and princely India: the full feature

    First published in 2001 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Lafayette Studio

    First published in 2002 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: To Wake the Sleeping Dogs

    First published in 1997 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: An Index to the Oxford Symposium 1981-1994 (Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery)

    First published in 1996 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Journal of Three Months' Walk in Persia in 1884 by Captain John Compton Pyne

    First published in 2017 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Dictatorship Syndrome

    First published in 1900 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Essays of the Sadat Era : The Non-Fiction Writing of Naguib Mahfouz: Volume II

    First published in 2017 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Early Mubarak Years 1982-1989: The Non-Fiction Writing of Naguib Mahfouz, Volume III

    First published in 2020 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Daisy, Księżna von Pless: szczęśliwe lata : katalog wystawy fotografii z Archiwum Studia Lafayette w Victoria & Albert Museum w Londynie, Muzeum Zamkowe w Pszczynie

    First published in 2011 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: A Journal of Three Months? Walk in Persia in 1884 by Captain John Compton Pyne

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  • Cover of: Maharajas at the London studios: National Portrait Gallery, London

    First published in 2001 — 1 edition
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Portraits, Exhibitions, India, kings and rulers, Kings and rulers, Portrait photography, Africa, history, Biography, Dictatorship, East Indians, Egypt, politics and government, Iran, civilization, Iran, description and travel, Lafayette Studio, Mahfuz, najib, 1912-2006, Political science, Princesses, Sadat, anwar, 1918-1981, Travel writing

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Daisy Pless Fürstin von (1873-1943)

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  • OLID: OL1445926A

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September 13, 2023 Edited by Marla Added bio
September 13, 2023 Edited by Marla Added new photo
September 5, 2008 Edited by RenameBot fix author name
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import