2 November 2017 | The British Legacy in Palestine: Balfour and Beyond conference
Keynote speech by Professor Avi Shlaim, Oxford University.
On the centenary of the actual date of that fated letter which redirected the history of the region, this mini-conference will subject it to intense scrutiny. Keynote from Avi Shlaim (Oxford University) and two roundtables with speakers: Rema Hammami (Birzeit), Steven Wagner (Brunel), Salim Tamari (Institute of Palestine Studies), Roberto Mazza (Limerick), Raja Shehadeh (independent writer), Rana Barakat (Birzeit), Jacob Norris (Sussex), and Lauren Banko (Manchester).
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Speaker information
Avi Shlaim is an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College and a former Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2006.
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 Middle Eastern affairs.