Avraham Sela


Avraham Sela is an Israeli historian and scholar on the Middle East and international relations.

Education and Career

Sela studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, gaining a BA in 1971, an MA in 1974 and a PhD in 1986. He currently serves as the A. Ephraim and Shirley Diamond Professor of International Relations and a senior research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Institute, both at the Hebrew University.
He is the author of The Decline of the Arab Israeli Conflict: Middle East Politics and the Quest for Regional Order and co-author of The Palestinian Hamas: Vision, Violence and Adjustment.

Views

Sela is fairly critical of the writings of the New Historians, particularly of Benny Morris and Avi Shlaim.

Publications