Nikolaos van Dam

Nikolaos (Koos) van Dam (born 1 April 1945) is a Dutch scholar and author on the Middle East. He also was a Dutch [[Ambassador]] to [[Iraq]], [[Egypt]], [[Germany]] and [[Indonesia]].
Education and career.
Van Dam studied [[Arabic language#Arabic and Islam|Arabic Language and Islam]], as well as [[Social science#Political science|Political and Social Sciences]], in which he received a [[Master of Arts|M.A.]] degree ([[doctorandus]]) "[[cum laude]]" from the [[University of Amsterdam]] in 1973. He subsequently obtained a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] degree in [[Literature]] at the same university in 1977. He taught Modern Middle Eastern History at the [[University of Amsterdam]] (1970–75), was First Secretary at the Netherlands Embassy in [[Beirut]], covering Lebanon, Jordan and Cyprus (1980–83), Chargé d'Affaires of the Netherlands in [[Tripoli, Libya]] (1983–85), and Deputy Director for African and Middle Eastern Affairs at the [[Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs]] (1985–88). He was also Ambassador of the Netherlands in [[Baghdad, Iraq]] (1988–91; accredited until 2004), in [[Cairo]], covering Egypt and Palestinian occupied territories (1991–96), in [[Ankara]], covering Turkey and Azerbaijan (1996–99), in [[Bonn]] & [[Berlin, Germany]] (1999–2005), and in [[Jakarta]] (2005-2010), covering Indonesia and [[Timor-Leste]].
Author.
He is the author of "The struggle for power in Syria: sectarianism, regionalism, and tribalism in politics, 1961–1978", الصراع على السلطة فى سوريا: الطائفية واﻹقليمية والعشائرية فى السياسة – الطبعة الإلكترونية, [[Taylor & Francis]], 1979, , and the subsequent "The struggle for power in Syria: sectarianism, regionalism and tribalism in politics, 1961–1994", 1995.
References.
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[[Category:Historians of the Middle East]]
[[Category:Writers from Amsterdam]]
[[Category:Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]]
[[Category:Officers of the Order of Orange-Nassau]]
[[Category:Grand Officers of the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg]]
[[Category:Ambassadors of the Netherlands to Turkey]]
[[Category:Ambassadors of the Netherlands to Iraq]]
[[Category:Ambassadors of the Netherlands to Egypt]]
[[Category:Ambassadors of the Netherlands to Azerbaijan]]
[[Category:Ambassadors of the Netherlands to Germany]]
[[Category:Ambassadors of the Netherlands to Indonesia]]
[[Category:Officers of the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg]]