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in north-west Syria. Beydoun was multi-lingual, speaking Arabic, English, French and
Turkish, and spent the next 15 years working for the company in its oil concession areas across the Middle East. From 1949 to 1951, he was field geologist and resident geologist with various IPC associate companies:
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landings in Oman, Beydoun took over the party and led it for successive seasons until 1958. IPC withdrew from the
Hadhramaut in 1961, but Beydoun would continue to publish books and papers on the geology of the Yemen. On his return to Oxford, Beydoun completed his doctorate on the basis of his field
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Beydoun died on 7 March 1998. In late September of the same year, the Prime Minister of Yemen presented his widow with the Republic's Science Medal, awarded posthumously to him in recognition of his unique contribution to the study of Yemeni geology.
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project on hydrocarbons in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. In 1990, he was patron of the Oxford
University Expedition to north Yemen, which undertook a geological study of Kohlan in Hajjah province. In 1992, he was made Emeritus Professor of the AUB.
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In 1977, Beydoun and his colleagues at the AUB formed the
Lebanese Geological Society. In 1983, he married Muntaha Saghiyeh (a distinguished archaeologist in her own right). In 1987, he became a scientific director of a
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by the
Government of Lebanon for "distinguished services to geological investigations and research". The Ziad Beydoun Memorial Award is given each year at the annual convention of the
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Born in Beirut in 1924, Ziad ("Don") Beydoun was from a distinguished family of
Mutasharifs who had served in the Ottoman Empire. He was the eldest son of the District Governor in
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for his "outstanding achievement in petroleum geology". He joked that it was good to receive the medal while he was still alive. In 1995, he was awarded the Medal of the
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and St. Luke's School, Haifa. He returned to Beirut to obtain a first-class degree in political science and history at the AUB. He then studied at
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Beydoun wrote extensively about the geology of the Middle East, with numerous books and articles (see selected bibliography below) including
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314:"Synopsis of the Geology of the Eastern Aden Protectorate". Report 21st. International Geological Congress, Copenhagen, 21st, 131–149. 1960.
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386:"Arabian Plate Hydrocarbon Geology and Potential – a Plate Tectonic Approach", AAPG Studies in Geology No. 33, Tulsa, OK, 77p. 1990.
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Geological map of
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342:"Southern Arabia and Northern Somalia: Comparative Geology", Phil. Trans. Royal Society London, A 267: 267–292. 1970.
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Upon rejoining IPC, Beydoun was posted to Qatar but following retrenchment of company operations, he was seconded to
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in recognition of the best AAPG poster session paper presented at the previous year's International conference.
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In the Heart of the Desert: the Story of an Exploration Geologist and the Search for Oil in the Middle East
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