from Ibrahim Mumayiz

I have known Siddeek for the past 18 years, and have been more than impressed by his encyclopedic, comprehensive and scholarly command of English literature. During all these years he and I have been in constant touch, exchanging letters and email messages on every period of English literature - Anglo-Saxon, Chaucerian, Fifteenth century, Elizabethan, Restoration, Augustan, Romantic, Victorian and modern. I personally have benefited much from Siddeek's wealth of knowledge in all these periods and found him to be a lucid, expressive and informative letter-writer.

Professor Ibrahim Mumayiz M.A (Trinity College, Dublin) M.A (Manchester), Ph.D (Trinity College, Dublin)