Michael D. Berdine

Michael D. Berdine was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of an executive with an American international oil company. He grew up in Bahrain, England, India, Italy and Germany before returning to the U.S. for university, where he received a BA and MA in Modern British and European History. After 21 years in business sales and management, he returned to graduate school where he received a second MA in Near Eastern Studies and a PhD in British Imperial History focusing on Britain in the Middle East. He lectured at colleges and universities in the U.S and U.K. before retiring to research and write in 2014. In 2018 he published Redrawing the Middle East: Sir Mark Sykes, Imperialism and the Sykes–Picot Agreement. Previously, he published The Accidental Tourist, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt and the British Invasion of Egypt in 1882 in 2005.