Michael B. Oren (Hebrew: מיכאל אורן; born Michael Scott Bornstein on May 20, 1955) is an American-born Israeli historian, author, politician, former ambassador to the United States (2009–2013), and current member of the Knesset for the Kulanu party and the Deputy Minister for Diplomacy in the Prime Minister’s Office.
Oren has written books, articles, and essays on Middle Eastern history, and is the author of the New York Times best-selling Power, Faith and Fantasy and Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East, which won the Los Angeles Times History Book of the Year Award and the National Jewish Book Award. Oren has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, and Georgetown universities in the United States and at Tel Aviv and Hebrew universities in Israel. He was a Distinguished Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem and a contributing editor to The New Republic. The Forward named Oren one of the five most influential American Jews and The Jerusalem Post listed him as one of the world’s ten most influential Jews.
Books in order of publication:
Sand Devil. Toby Press (2000)
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East. Presidio Press (2002)
Reunion. New York: Plume. (2003)
Power, Faith, and Fantasy: The United States in the Middle East, 1776 to 2006. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. (2007)
New Essays on Zionism. Shalem Press. (2007) (editor, with David Hazony and Yoram Hazony).
The Origins of the Second Arab-Israeli War. Routledge (2013)
Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide. Random House (2015)
The Night Archer and Other Stories. Wicked Son (2020)
To All Who Call in Truth. Wicked Son (2021)
Swann’s War. Dzanc Press (2022)
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