Dr. Kenneth Stein: “Narratives and History: Telling the History of the Israel-Arab Conflict”

Dr. Stein is the William E. Schatten Professor of Contemporary Middle Eastern History, Political Science and Israeli Studies at Emory University. He holds a joint appointment in the history and political science departments. Author, writer, teacher, and lecturer, he was at the center of developing sustained institutions at Emory: The International Study Center (1979), the Middle East Research Program (1992), and the Institute for the Study of Modern Israel, (1998). 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. Primarily, he concentrates on undergraduate teaching on American foreign policy toward the Middle East, the modern Arab world, Arab-Israeli conflict, and modern Israel.