Professor Ilan Pappe was born in Haifa in 1954. He studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and continued his studies at the University of Oxford where he received his D. Phil in 1984. Prof Pappe was a lecturer at the University of Haifa until 2006 and the director of the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian Studies in Haifa, 2000-2006.
Currently, Prof Pappe is a fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies and the Director of the European Center for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter.
Prof Pappe has published 20 books and numerous articles on power and knowledge, history of the Middle East and mainly history of Israel and Palestine. His most famous is The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine published in 2007 and his most recent book is The Ten Myths of Israel.
Currently, Prof Pappe is a fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies and the Director of the European Center for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter.
Prof Pappe has published 20 books and numerous articles on power and knowledge, history of the Middle East and mainly history of Israel and Palestine. His most famous is The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine published in 2007 and his most recent book is The Ten Myths of Israel.