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Dr. Efraim Karsh

Efraim Karsh is Professor and Head of Mediterranean Studies at King's College, London. He is regarded as the foremost critic of the New Historians, a group of Israeli scholars who have questioned the conventional history of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Background

Born and raised in Israel, Karsh graduated in Arabic and Modern Middle East History from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and obtained an MA and Ph.D in International Relations from Tel Aviv University.

Before embarking on an academic career, he was a research analyst for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), where he attained the rank of Major.

Academic career

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.

He has published extensively on Middle Eastern affairs, Soviet foreign policy, and European neutrality, and is a founding editor of the scholarly journal Israel Affairs. He is a regular media commentator, 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 Los Angeles Times, The Times of London, , and The Daily Telegraph.

Books

  • 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).

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