Efraim Karsh

Efraim Karsh
אפרים קארש‎
Born	(1953-09-06) 6 September 1953 (age 71)
Academic background
Education	Hebrew University of Jerusalem (BA) Tel Aviv University (MA, PhD)
Academic work
Discipline	Historian
Institutions	King's College London

Efraim Karsh (Hebrew: אפרים קארש; born 6 September 1953)^[1] is an Israeli and British historian who is the founding director and emeritus professor of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies^[2] at King's College London. Since 2013, he has served as professor of political studies at Bar-Ilan University (where he also directs^[3] the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies).^[3] He is also a principal research fellow and former director of the Middle East Forum,^[4] a Philadelphia-based think tank. He is a vocal critic of the New Historians, a group of Israeli scholars who have questioned the traditional Israeli narrative of the Arab–Israeli conflict.