The Automobile Club of Egypt

Russell Harris studied Oriental Studies at Balliol College, Oxford. He has translated novels and political works from French and Arabic and written for many scholarly publications on Middle Eastern affairs and food history. In recent years he has collaborated with the National Portrait Gallery. London to showcase displays of images from their archives. The results of his research on the Lafayette Negative Archive, held by the Victoria & Albert Museum, London have been shown in photographic exhibitions in Pakistan, India, Romania, Britain and Austria.