Seth Anziska

Seth Anziska is the Mohamed S. Farsi-Lindenbaum Professor of Jewish-Muslim Relations at University College London, where he is the founding director of the Middle East Research Centre. He is the author of Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo (Princeton University Press, 2018).

His research and teaching focuses on the international history of the modern Middle East, Israeli and Palestinian society and culture, and contemporary Arab and Jewish politics. He received his BA and PhD in history from Columbia University, and his M. Phil. in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford.

Seth’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The London Review of Books, and The New York Review of Books. He has held fellowships at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study in South Africa, the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, New York University, and the American University of Beirut. He lives in London.