Avi Shlaim, Author . Knopf $35 (723p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4305-7
Two new perspectives on the man who ruled Jordan for nearly half a century uncover his heroic efforts to bring stability to the region.
Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace
Avi Shlaim
. Knopf
, $35 (720p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4305-7
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Avi Shlaim, Author . Verso $34.95 (392p) ISBN 978-1-84467-366-7
Shlaim (Lion of Jordan
), an Israeli army veteran and international relations professor at Oxford University, offers a penetrating critique of Zionism in these reviews and essays collected from the last 30 years. He focuses on the “three main...
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Avi Shlaim, Author Penguin Books $14 (160p) ISBN 978-0-14-024564-6
Examining Western relations with the Middle East since WWI, Oxford international relations professor Shlaim criticizes American policy in the region, charging that the U.S. continues to ignore the economic and social needs of that community. (Aug.)
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Avi Shlaim, Author Columbia University Press $59.25 (676p) ISBN 978-0-231-06838-3
This controversial piece of investigative scholarship is a blockbuster. Shlaim, an Oxford instructor in international relations, documents that Jordan's ambitious, absolutist King Abdullah, who was assassinated in 1951, had clandestine ties with the
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Avi Shlaim, Author Viking Books $17.95 (147p) ISBN 978-0-670-85330-4
In a scathing critique of U.S. policy in the Middle East, Oxford professor of international relations Shlaim first shows how the post-WW I order imposed on that region by Britain and its allies created a belt of instability and turmoil with weak,...
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Avi Shlaim, Author W. W. Norton & Company $32.5 (670p) ISBN 978-0-393-04816-2
Optimism about the prospects for a Middle East peace agreement has accompanied the recent election of Ehud Barak as Israel's prime minister, but if this book is any indication, the war over Israel's history is likely to rage on. Shlaim (War and...
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Avi Shlaim. Oneworld, $29.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-86154-463-9
In this detailed, resonant account, historian Shlaim (The Iron Wall) recalls the complexities of growing up as an Arab Jew in Iraq and Israel. Born in 1945 Baghdad, Shlaim grew up in an affluent Jewish family that had little interest in Zionism,...
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