Efraim Karsh (IL)

Efraim Karsh (Hebrew: אפרים קארש‎; born 1953) is a professor (and founding director) of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at King's College London; professor of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University (where he is also a senior research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies); and a principal research fellow (and former director) of the Middle East Forum, a Philadelphia-based think tank. He is regarded as a vocal critic of the New Historians, a group of Israeli scholars who have questioned the conventional history of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Born, and raised in Israel, to Jewish immigrants to Palestine under the British Mandate, Karsh graduated in Arabic and Modern Middle East History from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and obtained an MA and PhD in International Relations from Tel Aviv University. After acquiring his first academic degree in modern Middle Eastern history, he was a research analyst for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), where he attained the rank of major.

Books: 

Palestine Betrayed (Yale University Press, 2010);
Islamic Imperialism: A History (Yale University Press, 2006);
La Guerre D'Oslo (Les Editions de Passy, 2005; with Yoel Fishman);
Arafat’s War (Grove, 2003);
Rethinking the Middle East (Cass, 2003);
The Arab-Israeli Conflict. The Palestine War 1948 (Oxford, Osprey, 2002) - republished under the new title The Arab-Israeli Conflict. The 1948 War (Rosen Publishing Group, 2008).
The Iran-Iraq War (Oxford, Osprey, 2002);
Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789–1922 (Harvard University Press, 1999; with *Inari Karsh);
Fabricating Israeli History: The "New Historians" (Cass, 1997; second edition 2000);
The Gulf Conflict 1990–1991: Diplomacy and War in The New World Order (Princeton University Press, 1993; with *Lawrence Freedman);
Saddam Hussein: A Political Biography (The Free Press, 1991; with Inari Rautsi-Karsh);
Soviet Policy towards Syria Since 1970 (Macmillan & St. Martin's Press, 1991);
Neutrality and Small States (Routledge, 1988);
The Soviet Union and Syria: The Asad Years (Routledge for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1988);
The Cautious Bear: Soviet Military Engagement in Middle East Wars in the Post 1967 Era (Westview, 1985).

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efraim_Karsh