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 at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. 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 scholarly articles have focused 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 "Arafat ist nicht Sadat (Arafat is not Sadat)," Internationale Politik, No. 10, Vol. 58, October 2003; "La Doctrine Bush au Moyen-Orient: continuité politique et engagement selectif (The Bush Doctrine is Selective Engagement: Continuity in American Foreign Policy Toward the Middle East)," Politique Étrangère, (Paris) Javier-Mars 2002; "American Mediation of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Positive Assessment of the April 2002 Powell Mission," Rivista Italiana di Geopolitica, (Rome) May 2002; and "Die Bush-Doktrin: Selektives Engagement in Nahen Osten," Internationale Politik (Berlin), Volume 3, 2002.

Stein writes a monthly column on Middle Eastern issues in addition to serving as a frequent commentator for the print and electronic media. He is a dynamic speaker and recipient of multiple scholarly awards, including Emory's 2002 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.

Since coming to Emory in 1977, he founded and developed the International Studies Center, was the first director of the Carter Center (1983 1986), established the Middle East Research Program (1992) and the Institute for the Study of Modern Israel (1997). From 1982 to 1996, he was former President Jimmy Carter's advisor on Middle Eastern affairs and remained the Middle East Fellow of the Carter Center until December 2006.

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