A 1963 graduate of the University of Mississippi's journalism program, Curtis Wilkie spent a large part of his twenty-six years at the Boston Globe covering presidential politics. However, in the early 1980s, he established the newspaper’s Middle East Bureau and reported on the region’s events through the first Gulf War in 1991.

On display is just one of the notebooks he filled with business cards and handwritten contact information accumulated during the course of his travels during this turbulent period.

Featured in this display:

• Articles

"Arab Israelis Could Affect the Outcome of Elections." Boston Globe 16 July 1984.

"Timur Göksel: A Middle East Reporter's Best Friend." Washington Journalism Review August 1986.

"A Time of Soul-Searching for Israel." Boston Globe Magazine 31 October 1982

"Gaza: Land of the Dispossessed." Boston Globe Magazine 7 September 1986

• Ephemera

Luggage label from Air Sinai

Reporter's notebook, opened to "Jordan" with assorted business cards

Business card from The Boston Globe, "Curtis Wilkie, Middle East Correspondent"