Avi Shlaim

Avi Shlaim (born October 31, 1945 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Israeli-British dual citizen and historian and identifies ethnically as an Iraqi Jew.cite web|title=Interview with Middle East Scholar Avi Shlaim: America, Israel, and the Middle East|author=Don Attapattu|publisher=The Nation|date=2004-06-16|url=http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040628/attapatu] He is now a professor of International relations at Oxford and in 2006 was elected fellow of the British Academy. Shlaim is considered a key member of a group of Israeli scholars known as the New Historians who put forward revised interpretations of the history of Zionism and Israel. He is a regular contributor to "The Guardian" newspaper.

Shlaim studied history at Cambridge University, then studied International Relations at the London School of Economics. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Reading [ [http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/people/fellows.html Governing Body Fellows ] ] . He taught International Relations at Reading University, specializing in European issues. His deep academic interest in the history of Israel began in 1987, when he took a position as a British Academy Research Professor at St. Antony's College, Oxford, and served as an outside examiner on the doctoral thesis of Ilan Pappe, another important New Historian. cite web|title=No Peaceful Solution|author=Miron Rapaport|publisher=Ha'aretz Friday Supplement|date=11.08.2005|url=http://www.editriceilponte.org/_files/HaaretzInterviewEnglish.pdf]

Shlaim's approach to the study of history is informed by his belief that "The job of the historian is to judge."

Books

* "Collusion across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement and the Partition of Palestine" (winner of the 1988 Political Studies Association's W. J. M. Mackenzie Prize)
*"The Politics of Partition" (1990 and 1998)
*"War and Peace in the Middle East: A Concise History" (1995)
*"The Cold War and the Middle East" (co-editor, 1997)
*"The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World" (2001)
*"Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace" (2007)

References

External links

* [http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/about/staff/staff.asp?action=show&person=62&special= Oxford home page]
* [http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/archives/Zionism%20AS.pdf "Zionism Today is the Real Enemy of the Jews"]
* [http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040628/attapatu 2004 Interview]