Avi Shlaim FBA (born October 31, 1945) is an Iraqi-born British/Israeli historian. He is emeritus professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and a fellow of the British Academy. Shlaim is considered one of Israel’s New Historians, a group of Israeli scholars who put forward critical interpretations of the history of Zionism and Israel.
Books in order of publication:
Collusion across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement, and the Partition of Palestine – 1988
The Politics of Partition: King Abdullah, the Zionists, and Palestine, 1921–1951
War and Peace in the Middle East: A Concise History – 1995
The Cold War and the Middle East – 1997
The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World – 1999
Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace – 2007
Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations – 2009
Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew – 2023
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