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Avi Shlaim (born October 31, 1945 in Baghdad
Baghdad

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, Iraq
Iraq

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) is an Iraqi-born British
British people

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 historian
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 who identifies ethnically as an Iraqi Jew. He is now a professor of International relations at Oxford
University of Oxford

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 and in 2006 was elected fellow of the British Academy
British Academy

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. Shlaim is considered a key member of a group of Israeli scholars known as the New Historians
New Historians

The New Historians are a loosely-defined group of Israeli historians who have challenged traditional Israeli assumptions about Israeli history, including Israel's role in the Palestinian Exodus in 1948 and Arab willingness to discuss peace with Israel....
 who put forward critical interpretations of the history of Zionism
Zionism

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 and Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
. Shlaim has been living in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

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 since 1967.






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Avi Shlaim (born October 31, 1945 in Baghdad
Baghdad

Baghdad is the Capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, with which it is also coterminous. With a municipal population estimated at 6.5 million, it is the largest city in Iraq, and the second largest city in the Arab World....
, Iraq
Iraq

Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
) is an Iraqi-born British
British people

The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....
 historian
HIStory

HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I is a double album by Michael Jackson, released on June 20, 1995, and is Jackson's ninth. The first disc, named "HIStory Begins" consists of a selection of Jackson's greatest hits from the singer's past fifteen years, while the second, named "HIStory Continues" features new songs, with the...
 who identifies ethnically as an Iraqi Jew. He is now a professor of International relations at Oxford
University of Oxford

The University of Oxford , located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation in the English-speaking world....
 and in 2006 was elected fellow of the British Academy
British Academy

The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established by Royal Charter in 1902, and is a fellowship of more than 800 scholars....
. Shlaim is considered a key member of a group of Israeli scholars known as the New Historians
New Historians

The New Historians are a loosely-defined group of Israeli historians who have challenged traditional Israeli assumptions about Israeli history, including Israel's role in the Palestinian Exodus in 1948 and Arab willingness to discuss peace with Israel....
 who put forward critical interpretations of the history of Zionism
Zionism

Zionism is the international Jewish political movement that originally supported the reestablishment of a homeland for the Jewish People in Palestine....
 and Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
. Shlaim has been living in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 since 1967. He holds a dual citizenship of the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 and Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
.

Avi Shlaim was born to Jewish parents in Iraq
Iraq

Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
; his family eventually moved to Israel. Shlaim served in the IDF
IDF

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 in the mid-1960s. At the age of 22 Shlaim left Israel to study history at Cambridge University
University of Cambridge

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, he then studied International Relations at the London School of Economics
London School of Economics

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. Shlaim also holds a Ph.D. from the University of Reading
University of Reading

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.

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
Ilan Pappé

Ilan Papp? is a professor of history at the UK University of Exeter. Born in Israel, he was a senior lecturer in political science at Haifa University from 1984 to 2007....
, another important New Historian. Shlaim's approach to the study of history is informed by his belief that "The job of the historian is to judge."

He is a regular contributor to The Guardian
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 newspaper, and signed an open letter to the Guardian condemning Israel's war against the Palestinians on 16th January 2009.

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)


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