1924-1981.
Desmond Stirling Stewart was a British writer and journalist who spoke Arabic fluently and worked for many years in Baghdad, Beirut, and Cairo. He wrote a number of books about Egyptian and Arabic culture and history as well as several novels.
His main novels are 'The Leopard in the Grass' (1953), 'The Unsuitable Englishman' (1955), trilogy 'The Sequence of Roles', 'The Round Mosaic'(1965), 'The Pyramid Inch' (1966), 'The Mamelukes' (1968).





