Michael Oren
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Michael Oren (born in 1955) is an Israeli historian and writer. He has published books, articles and essays on the subject of Middle Eastern history and is the author of the best-selling Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East. He is a Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem.
Born in New Jersey, USA, Michael Oren received B.A. (1977) and M.I.A. (School of International Affairs, 1978) at Columbia University and M.A. and Ph.D. (History of the Middle East) at Princeton University.
After immigrating to Israel in 1979, he served as a paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces and saw combat in the 1982 Lebanon War. He was an advisor to Yitzhak Rabin and served as the Israeli liaison officer to the U.S. Sixth Fleet during the Gulf War.
First published in 2002, his book Six Days of War is an account of the Six Day War. It was a New York Times national bestseller and received the Washington Post's Book of the Year award and the Los Angeles Times' Book Prize.
Norman Finkelstein had a highly critical review of the Six Days of War wich first appeared in Journal of Palestine Studies, Spring 2003, (Vol. 32, No. 3, Pages 74-89). Finkelstein called it: "Abba Eban with Footnotes". (The review was reprinted as an appendix in the 2003 edition of Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict.) A recent paper by Roland Popp is also critical.[1]
His forthcoming book, Power, Faith and Fantasy: The United States in the Middle East, 1776 to 2006, a history of the American involvement in the Middle East, is being published by Norton in 2007.
He lives in Jerusalem.
[edit] External links
- Interview at C-SPAN (August 25, 2002)
- Interview at Unkommon Knowledge (June 23, 2003)
- Interview at USA Today (May 28, 2005)
- Article at The Harvard Crimson
- Feature at The Yale Daily News
- Norman Finkelsteins review of Six Days of War
[edit] Bibliography
- ISBN 0-19-515174-7: Six Days of War. Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Making Sense of the Six-Day War May 6, 2002 briefing by Michael Oren at MEForum.
- Arafat Without Tears. The Terrorist Statesman Took Peace Nowhere article at The Washington Post (November 14, 2004. p. B01)
- ^ Popp, Roland, "Stumbling Decidedly into the Six-Day War", The Middle East Journal, Spring 2006, Vol. 60, No. 2; pp. 281-309
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