Professor Shlaim launches his latest book at the Middle East Centre
On Tuesday 18 February, the Middle East Centre hosted the launch for St Antony’s Emeritus Fellow, Professor Avi Shlaim’s, new book Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine (Irish Pages Press, 2025).
The book, a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2024, is a collection of essays by Professor Shlaim in which he scrutinizes Israel’s policy towards the Gaza Strip. The collection includes a foreword from Francesca Albanese (UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian Occupied Territories) and, as a Coda, the statement made by Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh KC on 11 January 2024 to the International Court of Justice in her role as the Counsel and Advocate for South Africa in the Case of Genocide against Israel.
Selma Dabbagh, novelist and human rights lawyer, writes of the book “Clear, forthright and cogent, Genocide in Gaza is essential reading for both those who understand little of Palestine-Israel and those who have followed the unfolding horrors for decades. As a historian, Shlaim is meticulous, thoughtful and robust. As a person who has lived in three worlds – Iraqi, Israeli and British, with a Jewish religion and an Arab ethnicity – few understand it as well on a personal level. His political vision is clear-sighted, his ideal humane.”
Thank you to the Irish Pages Press for facilitating sales of the book, and to the audience who turned out (in great number!) to support the launch.
The book can be ordered directly from the publishers’ website here.
