Timothy Power
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Timothy Power is an archaeologist who specializes in Arabia and the Islamic World. He completed his doctorate in Islamic Art and Archaeology at the University of Oxford in 2003. His doctorate focused on the Red Sea basin from Byzantium to the Caliphate, which was later published as a book by the American University of Cairo (AUC) Press.
He is currently an associate professor of archaeology at the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU).
Career
Power's interest in archaeology was prompted by his relocation to Cairo in 2001. There, he published a historical guidebook on Alexandria and participated in a digging of the Eastern Desert of Egypt. Afterwards, he began his extensive travels around the Islamic world before pursuing his studies in archaeology at the University of Oxford.
He moved to the United Arab Emirates in 2009, where he worked as a consultant for the Department of Culture and Tourism and worked on historical excavations in the oases of Al-Ain. Then, he worked as a lecturer in archaeology at UCL Qatar, before working as an associate professor at Zayed University (ZU) in Abu Dhabi. He was appointed as an associate professor at the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) in Al-Ain in 2021.
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