Elie Kedourie C.B.E., FBA (25 January 1926 – 29 June 1992) was a British historian of the Middle East. He wrote from a conservative perspective, dissenting from many points of view taken as orthodox in the field. He was at the London School of Economics (LSE) from 1953 to 1990, becoming Professor of Politics.
He was born in Baghdad; his background was Iraqi Jewish and he grew up in the Jewish quarter, attending the Alliance Française primary scho...
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Elie Kedourie C.B.E., FBA (25 January 1926 – 29 June 1992) was a British historian of the Middle East. He wrote from a conservative perspective, dissenting from many points of view taken as orthodox in the field. He was at the London School of Economics (LSE) from 1953 to 1990, becoming Professor of Politics.
He was born in Baghdad; his background was Iraqi Jewish and he grew up in the Jewish quarter, attending the Alliance Française primary school and then the Shammash High School. He took an undergraduate degree at the LSE.
Kedourie's doctoral thesis (later England and the Middle East) was critical inter alia of Britain's inter-war role in Iraq. It was refused the degree of D. Phil. of the University of Oxford, but was published in 1956. It castigated British policy makers, for their encouragement of Arab nationalism, and contained a very negative view of T. E. Lawrence. He refused to make changes requested by one of the examiners, Sir Hamilton Gibb, and so did not proceed to take...
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