Andrew Forbes

Andrew Forbes holds an MA in Islamic Studies and a Ph.D in Central Asian History. He first visited the Maldives in 1976 and has traveled extensively throughout the archipelago, including a four-month period collecting traditional artifacts for the Museum of Mankind in London. Forbes has written about the Maldives for numerous academic journals such as 'The Geographical Magazine' and the 'Encyclopaedia of Islam', as well as for 'The Guardian', 'Far Eastern Economic Review', 'Asian Wall Street Journal' and 'Hemispheres'. He is currently editor of Crescent Press Agency and a Senior Associate Member of St Anthony's College, Oxford.