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Revision as of 17:40, 18 May 2006 by Factusnonverbus (talk | contribs) (spelling error/typo)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Efraim Karsh is Professor and Head of Mediterranean Studies at King's College London. Born and brought up in Israel, he graduated from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in Arabic and Modern Middle East History, and obtained an MA and PhD in International Relations from Tel-Aviv University.
Before embarking on an academic career, Professor Karsh was a research analyst at the Israeli Defence Forces where he attained the rank of a Major. He has held various academic posts at Harvard and Columbia universities, the Sorbonne, the London School of Economics, Helsinki University, the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in Washington D.C., and the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel-Aviv University.
Professor Karsh has published extensively on Middle Eastern affairs, Soviet foreign policy, and European neutrality, and is a Founding Editor of the scholarly journal Israel Affairs. Professor Karsh is a regular commentator to the media, has appeared on all the main radio and television networks in the United Kingdom and the United States, and has contributed articles to leading newspapers, including The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The International Herald Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, The London Times, The Sunday Times, and The Daily Telegraph.
He is the author of some hundred academic publications, and his books include ''Islamic Imperialism: A History (Yale University Press, 2006); Arafat’s War (Grove, 2003); Rethinking the Middle East (Cass, 2003); The Arab-Israeli Conflict. The Palestine 1948 War (Oxford, Osprey, 2002); The Iran-Iraq War (Oxford, Osprey, 2002); Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789-1922 (Harvard University Press, 1999; with Inari Karsh); Fabricating Israeli History: The "New Historians" (Cass, 1997; second edition 1999); The Gulf Conflict 1990-1991: Diplomacy and War in The New World Order (Princeton University Press, 1993; with Lawrence Freedman); Saddam Hussein: A Political Biography (The Free Press, 1991; with Inari Rautsi-Karsh); Soviet Policy towards Syria Since 1970 (Macmillan & St. Martin's Press, 1991); Neutrality and Small States (Routledge, 1988); The Soviet Union and Syria: The Asad Years (Routledge for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1988); The Cautious Bear: Soviet Military Engagement in Middle East Wars in the Post 1967 Era (Westview, 1985).
Prof. Karsh is the foremost critic of the New Historians, a group of Israeli scholars who have questioned the conventional history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
External links
- Homepage at King's College London
- "Arafat Lives", Commentary, January 2005, pp. 33-40. Reprinted in Ha-Umma (Hebrew)
- "Israel's Arabs v. Israel", Commentary, December 2003, pp. 21-27]
- What Occupation?
- Benny Morris and the Reign of Error
- Benny Morris' Reign of Error, Revisited, a review essay on Morris' revised edition of his book on the Palestinian refugee exodus.
- Dear Diary: Juan Cole's Bad Blog
- Review of International Law and Politics RILP