David Holden
David Holden ( born November 20, 1924 in Sunderland ( Tyne and Wear ), England; † December 7, 1977 in Cairo, Egypt) was a British journalist and author.
Life
After visiting the Great Ayton Friend's School in the northern Yorkshire Holden studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and at Northwestern University in Evanston (Illinois ) in the USA. He then spent three years as school teacher in Scotland, worked as an actor and went back to the U.S.. There he made his way with odd jobs until he in 1955 as auxiliary correspondent in Washington DC at the London daily The Times found employment. 1956 sent him the newspaper in the Middle East in order to report on the political and diplomatic developments after the Suez crisis, which was caused by the invasion of Egypt by British, French and Israeli troops.
Over the next four years, Holden traveled as the Middle East correspondent for The Times by the Arab countries and thereafter a freelancer. In 1961 he began in The Guardian as a foreign correspondent and in 1965 a senior foreign correspondent for the London Sunday Times. In the following years he wrote the book Farewell to Arabia ( 1966) and Greece Without Columns (1972) and began his work on a third book, The House of Saud. On December 7, 1977, he was assassinated in Cairo, but the book was completed by Middle East specialists in the Financial Times, Richard Johns and James Buchan and published in London in 1981. On the motives for the murder of Holden, there are various theories, of which, however to date, no was found to be clearly correct.