Middle East Strategy at Harvard

Efraim Karsh is Professor and Head of the Mediterranean Studies Programme at King’s College London.

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. 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 over a hundred academic publications, and his books include Islamic Imperialism: A History (Yale, 2006); Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789-1922 (Harvard, 1999); Fabricating Israeli History: The “New Historians” (Cass, 1997); and Saddam Hussein: A Political Biography (Free Press, 1991).

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