MEED founder Elizabeth Collard's son, Abdullah Jonathan Wallace, started as a desk reporter and rose to become editor of MEED I first worked at MEED in 1957, when I was 15. My mother, Elizabeth Collard, had launched the Middle East Economic Digest (MEED) as a hand-printed newsletter in the wake of the Suez invasion and I would come from school on Thursday evenings to her Dickensian office in the then highly unfashionable Covent Garden area of London. My job was to fill the 100-or-so envelopes of the subscribers and take them to the post office. Many people would pass by on press day to help collate and staple the newsletter.