Albert Hourani's family had converted from Eastern Orthodoxy to Scottish Presbyterianism and his father became an elder of the local church in Manchester.
13 Facts About Albert Hourani
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Fadlo had extensive business contacts with the Levantine community both in Manchester and in the Ottoman Empire, and Cecil Albert Hourani commented on the household's mixed Anglo-Levantine culture:.
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Albert Hourani later studied at Mill Hill School, London before attending Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied Philosophy, Politics, Economics and History, graduating first in his class in 1936.
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When in Cairo, Albert Hourani rented a room in Paul Kraus's house; in 1944 Kraus was found hanged in his bathroom for an alleged suicide.
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Albert Hourani began his academic career, which would occupy the rest of his life, in 1948, teaching at Magdalen College, St Antony's College, the American University of Beirut, the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard.
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Albert Hourani ended his academic career as Fellow of St Antony's and Reader in the History of the Modern Middle East at Oxford.
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Albert Hourani trained more academic historians of the modern Middle East than any other university historian of his generation.
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Albert Hourani was appointed CBE in the 1980 Birthday Honours.
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Albert Hourani's most popular work is A History of the Arab Peoples, a readable introduction to the history of the Middle East and an international best seller.
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Albert Hourani was an Honorary Fellow of both MESA and the American Historical Association.
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In 1955 Albert Hourani married Christine Mary Odile Wegg-Prosser, while teaching at Magdalen College, Oxford.
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Albert Hourani died in Oxford in 1993 at the age of 77.
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Albert Hourani's widow died in 2003 at the age of 89.