Almost six years of wartime intelligence work forced a difficult academic re-entry.

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It was not easy to resume an academic career after an interval of almost six years doing very different work. I had acquired a close, intense but highly spe­ cialized knowledge of some aspects of the modern situation in the Middle East in the course of my wartime duties, but I had to relearn my profession, both as a teacher and as a researcher. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 77

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