Born in
Addis Ababa, Michael Adams was educated at
Sedbergh School and studied at
Christ Church, Oxford. During the
Second World War, he was shot down over the
North Sea while serving with the
Royal Air Force and was a prisoner of war in Germany for the rest of the conflict. He subsequently became a journalist, and was Middle East correspondent for
The Guardian from 1956 to 1962, when he took a year's sabbatical in Italy. He subsequently continued to keep up association with
The Guardian as a freelance journalist. Adams was almost the only British journalist to report on Israel's treatment of Palestinians in 1967. He helped found the
Council for Arab-British Understanding (CAABU) in 1967, and served as its first director. He was editor of
Middle East International until 1981. In 1975 he and
Christopher Mayhew wrote
Publish It Not: The Middle East Cover-Up, a pro-Palestinian work on the Middle East conflict. ==References==