Fred Halliday
Halliday in 2009
Born	(1946-02-22)22 February 1946 Dublin, Ireland
Died	26 April 2010(2010-04-26) (aged 64) Barcelona, Spain
Occupation	Scholar of international relations

Simon Frederick Peter HallidayFBA (22 February 1946 – 26 April 2010) was anIrish writer and academic specialising ininternational relations and theMiddle East, with particular reference to theCold War,Iran, and theArabian Peninsula.

Born inDublin, Ireland, in 1946^[1] to anEnglish father, businessman Arthur Halliday,^[2] and an Irish mother, Rita (née Finigan), From 1950 to 1953, Halliday attended the Marist School, Dundalk (at that time the primary school forSt Mary's College, Dundalk^[3]), andAmpleforth College (1953–1963) before going up toQueen's College,Oxford, in 1964 to readPhilosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE), graduating in 1967, and then on to theSchool of Oriental and African Studies (1969) where he earned his MSc in Middle East politics.^[4][1] His doctorate at theLondon School of Economics (LSE), on the foreign relations of thePeople's Democratic Republic of Yemen, titledAspects of South Yemen's foreign policy, 1967-1982,^[5] was awarded in 1985, 17 years after he commenced it (Sale 2002). From 1973 to 1985, he was a fellow of theTransnational Institute^[6] Amsterdam and Washington. From 1969 to 1983, he served as a member of editorial board of theNew Left Review, and worked partially in publishing, in what now isVerso Books. In this capacity, he was one of the editors ofAgainst Method, a major text in philosophy of science byPaul Feyerabend.^[7][1]

In 1983, he took up a teaching position at the LSE, and from 1985 to 2008 was Professor of International Relations there. After recovering from illness in 2002–2003, he was madeMontague Burton Professor of International Relations at the LSE in 2005, but in 2008 he retired and became anICREA research professor at IBEI, theInstitut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals, inBarcelona where he collaborated intensely with the LSE Alumni AssociationSpain.

Halliday was also a columnist foropenDemocracy andLa Vanguardia. In 2002, he was elected Fellow of theBritish Academy. A memoir assessing his life, work and intellectual achievements appeared in theProceedings of the British Academy in 2011.^[8]

Halliday was a proficient linguist and advocate of the centrality of language to understanding contemporary globalization. Other than English, he was competent in a further eleven languages: Latin, Greek, Catalan, Persian, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Portuguese and Arabic. From 1965, he travelled widely in the Middle East, visiting every country fromAfghanistan toMorocco, and giving lectures in most. He met and interviewed several key Islamic fighters, rebels, and religious leaders and politicians over the years.

Fred Halliday was highly skeptical of the cooperative projects planned betweenLSE and the Gaddafi Foundation, the charitable foundation led bySaif al-Gaddafi, the son of the Libyan leaderMuammar al-Gaddafi. Halliday's views were expressed in a "Note of Dissent" addressed to the LSE Council on 4 October 2009.^[9] LSE compiled a list of 1,300 works by Halliday written between 1965 and his death.^[10]

Halliday was formerly married toMaxine Molyneux and they had one son, Alex. His brother is the historianJon Halliday.

On his concept of 'home': "when he was asked which of his many homes and journeys was his favourite, his reply was unfailingly 'the next one'."^[11]

Halliday died in Barcelona on 26 April 2010, aged 64, after a year-long battle with cancer.^[12][13]

TheInstitut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals in Barcelona has named its seminar room after Halliday.

• Edited and introducedRussia, China and the West 1953–1966, byIsaac Deutscher, OUP 1969, Penguin 1970. Serbo-Croat, German translations.
• Translated and introducedMarxism and Philosophy byKarl Korsch, NLB (New Left Books), 1970.
• Arabia without Sultans, Penguin 1974, reprinted 1975, 1979; Italian, Japanese, Persian, Arabic, Turkish translations.
• Iran: Dictatorship and Development, Penguin 1978, reprinted 1979 twice; Japanese, Norwegian, Swedish, German, Spanish, Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Chinese translations.
• Mercenaries in the Persian Gulf, Russell Press, 1979. Persian translation.
• Soviet Policy in the Arc of Crisis,Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, 1981: issued asThreat from the East? Penguin 1982; Japanese, French, Arabic translations.
• The Ethiopian Revolution, withMaxine Molyneux, Verso, London 1982.
• The Making of the Second Cold War, Verso, London 1983, reprinted 1984, 1986, 1988. German, Persian, Spanish, Japanese translations.
• State and Ideology in the Middle East and Pakistan, edited by Fred Halliday andHamza Alavi, Macmillan, 1988.
• Cold War, Third World, Radius/Hutchinson, 1989. Published in USA asFrom Kabul to Managua, Pantheon, 1989. Arabic and Japanese translation.
• Revolution and Foreign Policy: the Case of South Yemen, 1967 1987, Cambridge University Press, 1990.
• Arabs in Exile, The Yemeni Community in Britain, I.B. Tauris, 1992. (new version 2010)
• Rethinking International Relations, Macmillan, 1994. Japanese, Spanish and Portuguese translations.
• From Potsdam to Perestroika, Conversations with Cold Warriors, BBC News and Current Affairs Publications, 1995.
• Islam and the Myth of Confrontation, I.B. Tauris, 1996. Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Indonesian, Polish, Spanish translations.
• Revolution and World Politics: The Rise and Fall of the Sixth Great Power, Macmillan, 1999. Turkish translation.
• Nation and Religion in the Middle East, London: Saqi Books, 2000. Arabic translation
• The World at 2000: Perils and Promises, Palgrave, 2001. Greek and Turkish translations.
• Two Hours That Shook the World. 11 September 2001, Causes and Consequences, London: Saqi, 2001. Arabic, Swedish translations.
• The Middle East in International Relations. Power, Politics and Ideology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Italian, Polish translations.
• 100 Myths About the Middle East. London: Saqi Books, 2005. Arabic, Italian, Turkish, Portuguese and Spanish translations.
• Britain's First Muslims, I.B.Tauris, 2010. (revised, new introduction, of 1992 book)
• Shocked and Awed: How the War on Terror and Jihad have Changed the English Language., London: I.B.Tauris, 2011. (final edits and additions made after his death)
• Caamano in London: The Exile of a Latin American Revolutionary. London:Institute for the Study of the Americas,University of London. 2011.
• Political Journeys: The Open Democracy Essays London: Saqi Books. 2011. (Collection of columns written foropenDemocracy between 2004 and 2009)

• Hans Gutbrod & Rita Solanke, Interview: Fred Halliday on his outlook and academic career,The Beaver, November 15, 1993,LSE library archive issue
• NPR, 13 October 1994: " ...the possible threat of another military showdown in Iraq."
• Peter Snow, Interview: "About attempts to construct an alternative, broad based government to replace the Taliban", BBC, 28 October 2001.
• John Humphrys, Interview: "Will the talks in Germany on the future of Afghanistan lead to a genuinely broad based government?," BBC, 25 November 2001.
• Nadeem Azam, Interview: "Are Islam and the West at Loggerheads?"1Lit.com, 13 December 2002.
• Jennifer Byrne, Interview, ABC (Australia), 9 April 2002.
• ESRC Society Today, 24 May 2005
• Jonathan Sale, "Passed/failed: Fred Halliday, Academic and Writer. 'My PhD thesis on South Yemen took me 17 years'", The Independent, 15 May 2002.

• Halliday, Fred, "An encounter with Fukuyama", New Left Review, 193. 1992.
• Nadeem Azam, "Are Islam and the West at Loggerheads?"1Lit.com, 13 December 2002.
• Edward Russell-Walling, "The web of bilateral relations spun anew",Gulf News, 8 November 2001.
• Helena Cobban, "Fred Halliday Misinformed?"Just World News, 2 February 2003.
• Mohammed Almezel, "Full democracy not possible in Gulf region in foreseeable future, says British author",Gulf News, 3 January 2004.
• Fred Halliday, "LSE: and the Qaddafi Foundation: A Dissenting Note", 4 October 2009.
• Danny Postel, "Who Is Responsible? An Interview with Fred Halliday" 23 November 2005.
• John Rose, Purging the demons,Socialist Review 261 (2002).

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• Deaths from cancer in Spain
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