Peter John Mansfield (2 September 1928 – 9 March 1996)[1] was a British political journalist.
Mansfield was born in Ranchi, India, in 1928, the son of an official in the Indian Civil Service.
[2] Remaining in Beirut, he edited the Middle East Forum and wrote regularly for the Financial Times, The Economist, The Guardian, the Indian Express and other newspapers.
His books as author or editor include The Middle East: A Political and Economic Survey, Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia[3] Who's Who of the Arab World, Nasser's Egypt, Nasser: A Biography, The British in Egypt, Kuwait: Vanguard of the Gulf and The Arabs, and A History of the Middle East.
His obituary in The Times praised him as "eloquent, scholarly, free from convention...[He] earned himself a distinguished place by forty years of thoughtful work and the passion of his convictions.