Hugh Roberts

Hugh Roberts was born in Hull in 1950 and grew up in Middlesex. He was the Edward Keller Professor of North African and Middle Eastern History at Tufts University. He lived for several years in Cairo, where he led the International Crisis Group’s North Africa Project. His books include Loved Egyptian Night, Berber Government: The Kabyle Polity in Pre-colonial Algeria and The Battlefield: Algeria 1988-2002. He died in May 2025.