The diary is arranged by interview and visit. John Marshall is an associate director of the Rockefeller Foundation's Humanities Division. The Humanities Program focus is to aid humanistic studies which have a direct relevance to contemporary life, support activities designed to interpret contemporary cultures and encourage study of foreign languages as an aid to eliminate barriers to international cooperation. Marshall attends the Fourth Annual Near East Conference and the U.S. National Conference for Unesco. He also discusses various avenues in which Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Arabic Program could go.

The diary is arranged by interview and visit. John Marshall is an associate director of the Rockefeller Foundation's Humanities Division. He takes a trip to the Near East to assess and survey Rockefeller Foundation Humanities program interests. The diary includes "Tentative list of Participants for Conference on Contemporary Studies of the Arab World."

Athens, Beirut, Cairo.