Connections Episode 75
 

Memoirs of an Arab Jew

Mouin Rabbani Interviews Avi Shlaim

On Wednesday, 6 September, Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani spoke with Avi Shlaim about his recent memoir, Three Worlds. This episode of Connections examines the impact of the Arab-Israeli conflict upon Arab Jews, their position in Israel, and related issues discussed in Three Worlds. 

Connections offers timely and informative interviews on current events and broader policy questions, as well as themes relevant to knowledge production. It combines journalism, analysis, and scholarship. 

Guest

Avi Shlaim, a British-Israeli historian, is an Emeritus Fellow of St. Antony’s College and Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the University of Oxford. A leading member of Israel’s “New Historians”, his books include Collusion Across the Jordan: King Abdullah, The Zionist Movement, and the Partition of Palestine (1988); The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (2001); Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, and Refutations (2010), and most recently Three Worlds: Memoir of an Arab-Jew (2023). A frequent press contributor and media commentator on Middle East affairs, Shlaim was in 2006 elected Fellow of the British Academy.