Kenneth W. Stein

Author, writer, teacher, and lecturer, Kenneth W. Stein is the William E. Schatten Professor of Contemporary Middle Eastern History, Political Science and Israeli Studies.  His scholarly publications include Mediniut Amitza [Courageous Policy] (Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense Publishing House, 2003); Heroic Diplomacy: Sadat, Kissinger, Carter, Begin, and the Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace (New York: Routledge, 1999); Making Peace Among Arabs and Israelis: Lessons from Fifty Years of Negotiating Experience (Washington, United States Institute for Peace, 1991); The Blood of Abraham: Insights into the Middle East (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1985), in collaboration with former President Jimmy Carter; and The Land Question in Palestine, 1917-1939 (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1984, 1985, and 2003). From 1996 through 1999, he wrote the chapter on the "Arab-Israeli Peace Process" in Middle East Contemporary Survey (Westview Press). For the 1999 and 2002 editions of the Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia, he wrote the entries for "PLO," "1948 Israeli Independence War," "June 1967 War," "1973 October War," "Hamas," and "Intifadah."

Stein's scholarship focuses on the origins of modern Israel, Palestinian social history, the British Mandate in Palestine, the Arab-Israeli negotiating process, American foreign policy toward the region, and the modern Arab world.  His most recent contributions are “Advice to the Next President about the Middle East,” inFocus Jewish Policy Center Journal II no, 3 (Fall 2008): “Das Ende der ‘arabischen Welt,: Internationale Politik, June 2006, 58-64;  Annapolis: Precedents and Transactions, But No Transformations, Tel Aviv Notes. The Moshe Dayan Center. December 27, 2007;  “My Problem with Jimmy Carter’s Book, Middle East Quarterly, Vol 14, no. 2,  Spring 2007,     "Arafat ist nicht Sadat (Arafat is not Sadat)," Internationale Politik, No. 10, Vol. 58, October 2003; “Sadat, Carter, Begin: An Unequally Sided Triangle,” in The Camp David Peace Process, Jerusalem: Menachem Begin Heritage Center, November 2002, pp. 33-42; “The Talks at Kilometer 101, “ in Richard B. Parker, The October War: A Retrospective, by Richard B. Parker, University Press of Florida, 2001, pp. 361-373.

Stein is a frequent commentator for the media and civic organizations. In April 2008, the Atlanta Jewish community honored him for his thirty years of service as a public intellectual. In 200, Emory honored him with the Marion V. Creekmore Award for his quarter century commitment to the internationalization of Emory College's curriculum. His undergraduate course, "History, Politics and Diplomacy of the Arab Israeli Conflict," is one of Emory's most popular courses.

Dr. Stein received his undergraduate BA degree from Franklin and Marshall College and two Masters and his doctoral degree from The University of Michigan. He was trained at Michigan in medieval Islamic and modern Middle Eastern history, modern Jewish history, British Empire and Commonwealth, Middle Eastern politics, and did his doctoral work on Arabs and Jews in the British Mandatory Palestine.

Institute for the Study of Modern Israel

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