Avi Shlaim

Avi Shlaim
Avi Shlaim
אבי שליים‎; أفي شلايم‎
	Shlaim in 2015
Born	31 October 1945; Baghdad, Kingdom of Iraq
Citizenship	Israel; United Kingdom;
Spouse	Gwyneth Daniel (m. 1973)
Children	1
Awards	British Academy Medal (2017)
Academic background
Education	Jesus College, Cambridge (BA); London School of Economics (MSc); University of Reading (PhD);
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	University of Reading; University of Oxford;

Avi Shlaim FBA (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.

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