This event is for LSE Students and Staff only; all attendees will be required to present their LSE ID card upon arrival, including your ticket; failure to do so will result in denial of entry.
Please ensure you register using your LSE email address.
This event has a no-bag policy, and a cloakroom will be available outside the venue.
Benny Morris was born in Israel and grew up in Jerusalem and New York. He has a BA in modern history from the Hebrew University and a Ph.D. in modern European history from Cambridge University. He worked as a journalist at the Jerusalem Post for 12 years and from 1997-2017 taught at the Middle East Studies Department, Ben-Gurio University, in Israel. In 2015-2018 he taught at Georgetown University. He has written widely in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Corriere della Sera, Ha’aretz, The New Republic, etc. Among his books are “The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited” (Cambridge UP, 2004), T”The Thirty-Year Genocide, Turkey’s Destruction of its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924″ (Harvard UP, 2019) and “1948, a History of the First Arab-Israeli War” (Yale UP, 2008).
Speaker: Benny Morris
Chair: Professor David Kershaw