Professor Avi Shlaim FBA

History Political History Middle East
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
2006
Subjects
History, Politics

Summary

Avi Shlaim is an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College and an Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford. He retired in 2011. He was a Lecturer then Reader in Politics at the University of Reading, 1970-1987. In 1987 he was appointed Alistair Buchan Reader in International Relations at Oxford and in 1996 he was made Professor of International Relations He was awarded a British Academy Research Readership in 1995-1997 and a Research Professorship in 2003-2006. In 2006 he was elected Fellow of the British Academy. He is a member of the Modern History section of the academy and a cross-member of the Political Studies section. Avi Shlaim is based at the Middle East Centre at St Antony's College where he continues to teach one graduate course within the MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies. In 2007-2008 he was director of the centre. His main research interest is the Arab-Israeli conflict. He is a frequent contributor to the newspapers and commentator on radio and television on Middle Eastern affairs.

Current post

Emeritus Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford

Past appointments

St Antony's College University of Oxford Emeritus Professor of International Relations

2017 -

British Academy Research Professor

2003 - 2006

St Antony's College University of Oxford Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford

1996 -

University of Reading Reader in Politics

1970 - 1987

University of Reading Lecturer and Reader in Politics

1970 - 1987

Publications

The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World

Avi Shlaim - Published in 2014 by Penguin

Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations

Avi Shlaim - Published in 2009 by Verso

Lion of Jordan: King Hussein’s Life in War and Peace

Avi Shlaim - Published in 2008 by Penguin

Collusion across the Jordan

Avi Shlaim - Published in 1988 by Columbia University Press

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