Avi shlaim oxford
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Avi Shlaim was born in Baghdad in 1945 and grew up in Israel. Ever since then he has studied the Arab-Israeli conflict and was most recently Professor of International Relations at Oxford. His biography of King Hussein is widely regarded as the best study of the King’s life and role in the region.
His main research interest is the Arab-Israeli conflict. He is author of Collusion across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement, and the Partition of Palestine (1988); The Politics of Partition (1990 and 1998); War and Peace in the Middle East: A Concise History (1995); The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (2000, second edition 2014); Lion of Jordan: King Hussein’s Life in War and Peace (2007); and Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations (2009). He is co-editor of The Cold War and the Middle East (1997); The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948 (2001, second edition 2007); and The 1967 Arab-Israeli War: Origins and Consequences (2012).
Professor Shlaim is a frequent contributor to the newspapers and commentator on radio and television on M
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Avi Shlaim
Avi Shlaim is a Emeritus Fellow of St Antonys College and a Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford. He was the Alastair Buchan Reader in International Relations from 1987 to 1996. He was the Director of Graduate Studies in International Relations in 1993-1995 and 1998-2001. In 1995-97 he held a British Academy Research Readership and in 2003-6 a Research Professorship. In 2006 he was elected Fellow of the British Academy.
He was born in Baghdad in 1945 and grew up in Israel. He read History at Jesus College, Cambridge, 1966-1969 and did an M.Sc. (Econ.) in International Relations at the London School of Economics, 1969-70. He was a Lecturer then Reader in Politics at the University of Reading, 1970-87.
Research summary
Avi Shlaim is based at the Middle East Centre at St
Research interests
Civil wars , Conflict management, Foreign Policy and diplomacy, International relations, International security, Refugees and migration, Violence security and conflict
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Avi Shlaim: An Israeli Born in Iraq and Now Living in England
Avi Shlaim, in the course of an interview in the Palestine Chroncile (May 14, 2004):
You were born in Baghdad. Do you have any memories of living in Iraq?
I was born in 1945, and my family left Iraq in 1950. I was 5 years old, and hadn’t started going to school so I never learned to read and write Arabic. I have only disjointed memories of life in Iraq. My father was a very wealthy merchant … we lived in a spacious house, and had a very leisurely and pleasant lifestyle. My parents always referred to Iraq as ‘God’s Paradise’, and there was no history of anti-Semitism in Iraq, only isolated incidents. The Jews were generally well integrated and happy.
But after Iraq’s participation in the 1948 war, there was a backlash against the Jews. Life became uncomfortable and in 1950 there was a mass exodus to Israel of about 100,000 of the 130,000 Iraqi Jews. The Iraqi government did not want the Jews to leave as they were a pillar of the Iraqi economy. The Israeli government, desperately
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