Dr Saul Kelly taught at the Defence Studies Department from 2001-2023. Since then he has been a Visiting Reader at the Defence Studies Department.

He is co-editor of Middle Eastern Studies.

Research

The international history of the Middle East in the 19^th and 20^th centuries.

Publications

• Captain Gill’s Walking Stick: the True Story of the Sinai Murders (Bloomsbury, 2019)
• Desert Dispute: the diplomacy of boundary-making in south-eastern Arabia, 3 volumes, ed. (Gerlach 2018-20)
• War and Politics in the Desert: Britain and Libya during the Second World War (Silphium Press, 2010)
• The Hunt for Zerzura: The Lost Oasis and the Desert War (John Murray, 2002)