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Askar H. Enazy (BA, University of Maine; MA, McGill University; PhD, Cambridge University). Dr. Enazy is a researcher specializing in international relations and international law. His most recent publications include The Long Road from Taif to Jeddah: Resolution of a Saudi-Yemeni Boundary Dispute(Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, 2006), and The Creation of Saudi Arabia: British Foreign Policy and Saudi Expansion, 1914-1927 (Routledge, 2009).
In various entries in his unpublished diaries, British Mesopotamian officer Harry St. John Philby, on special mission to central Arabia during 1917-1918, recorded the minutes of his many private “interviews” with Ibn Saud. He concluded that the newly re-emerging Wahhabi movement under Ibn Saud would, with British political and military support, effectively serve British military and political objectives in the Arabian Peninsula and beyond during the ongoing war and in its aftermath.
