Sandra Mackey is an award winning writer on Middle Eastern culture and politics.

She holds an M.A. in International Affairs from the University of Virginia and has taught political science at Georgia State University. She has served as a visiting scholar in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia.

Her writings have appeared on numerous periodicals such as Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and Christian Science Monitor.

In addition to appearing on NPR, Nightline, BBC, and ABC News with Peter Jennings, Mackey also served as a commentator on the first Gulf War for CNN. Mackey's book Lebanon: Death of a Nation was named to the New York Times list of Notable Books of 1989.

Books written by Sandra Mackey include:

Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (Arabic: صدام حسين عبد المجيد التكريتي Ṣaddām Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Maǧīd al-Tikrītī; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its regional organisation Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region, which espoused ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism, Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup, later referred to as the 17 July Revolution, that brought the party to long-term power of Iraq.

As vice president under the ailing General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, and at a time when many groups were considered capable of overthrowing the government, Saddam created security forces through which he tightly controlled conflict between the government and the armed forces. In the early 1970s, Saddam nationalized oil and other industries. The state-owned banks were put under his control, leaving the system eventually insolvent mostly due to the Iran–Iraq War, the Gulf War, and UN sanctions. Through the 1970s, Saddam cemented his authority over the apparatuses of government as oil money helped Iraq's economy to grow at a rapid pace. Positions of power in the country were filled with Sunnis, a minority that made up only a fifth of the population.

Sean Mackey, OBE (1918–1997) was an Irish engineering professor.

Professor Sean Mackey was born in Dolla, Co Tipperary, Ireland in 1917. Having attended Mount Saint Joseph College in Roscrea, he entered University College Dublin where he obtained a BE Civil Engineering degree and BSc degree. He subsequently went on to get a Masters Degree in UCD before marrying Elizabeth Ann (Lilian) Mullaney and moving to England where he secured a job with the construction steelmaker Dorman Long.

In 1947 he accepted a post as Senior Lecturer in Leeds University where he obtained a PhD in 1951. Then in 1953, he was invited to take the Head of Engineering chair at the fledgling Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in Eastern India. His teaching philosophy was always to encourage a 'practical' hands on approach to Engineering and to this end, he encouraged his students to undertake a project to design and build a swimming pool complex on the Institute's campus.

Finally in 1956, he moved to the University of Hong Kong to take up the reins of Dean of the joint faculty of Engineering and Architecture. Within a few years he had expanded the Engineering faculty from one Department to four. He was a founding council member of the Hong Kong Management Association in 1960. During his time in HKU, he initiated an intensive research programme studying the effects of wind on tall buildings, culminating in an international Seminar in 1961.[1][2] 1968 saw him help set up and become the first President of the Hong Kong branch of the Institution of Structural Engineers. In 1962 he was elected President of the Hong Kong St Patrick's Society [3] and was also for many years, a Steward of the Hong Kong Jockey Club. He also chaired an innovative 'British Engineering Week' in the Colony in 1966 which was opened by the late Princess Margaret. To recognise this work, the British Govt awarded Prof Mackey an OBE.

Julian Clifton "Matty" Matlock (April 27, 1907 – June 14, 1978) was an American Dixieland jazz clarinettist, saxophonist and arranger born in Paducah, Kentucky. From 1929 to 1934 Matlock replaced Benny Goodman in the Ben Pollack band doing arrangements and performing on clarinet.

From 1935 to 1942, after a falling-out with Pollack, Matty joined Bob Crosby in whose band he was the featured clarinetist and also a saxophonist. He contribute arrangements to the band's repertoire.

Matlock wrote arrangements for television shows, feature films and motion pictures.^{[citation needed]}

As bandleader

With Ella Fitzgerald

With Ray Heindorf

With Ben Pollack

With Beverly Jenkins