Caesar Farah, a professor of history emeritus at the University of Minnesota, died Nov. 26, 2009. He was 80.
Farah earned a bachelor’s degree from Stanford in 1952, and a Ph.D. from Prince-
ton’s Department of Oriental Languages and Literature in 1957. He then served the Department of State as a cultural-affairs officer in India, Pakistan, and Washington, D.C. From 1959 to 1963, he was an assistant professor of history and Semitic languages at Portland (Ore.) State University, and in 1963-64 he taught at California State University in Los Angeles. From 1964 to 1969, Farah was an associate professor of Near Eastern studies at Indiana University in Bloomington.
He then taught Middle Eastern and Islamic history at the University of Minnesota until his retirement as a professor emeritus in 2008. Farah received several grants and awards, and published numerous articles and books on the Middle East.
Farah is survived by his wife, Irmgard, and their daughter; six children from his first marriage; 12 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
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