Avi Shlaim
Avi Shlaim | |
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| אבי שליים أفي شلايم | |
Shlaim in 2015 | |
| Born | 31 October 1945 |
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| Spouse |
Gwyneth Daniel (m. 1973) |
| Children | 1 |
| Awards | British Academy Medal (2017) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | |
| Thesis | The United States and the Berlin Blockade, 1948–1949: A Study in Crisis Decision Making (1980) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Historian |
| School or tradition | Israel's "New Historians" |
| Institutions | |
Avi Shlaim FBA (Hebrew: אבי שליים, Arabic: أفي شلايم; born 31 October 1945) is an Israeli and British historian of Iraqi Jewish descent. He is one of Israel's "New Historians", a group of Israeli scholars who put forward critical interpretations of the history of Zionism and Israel.