Panayiotis Jerasimof Vatikiotis (5 February 192815 December 1997) was a
Greek-American
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political scientist and historian of the
Middle East
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. He was Professor of Politics at the
School of Oriental and African Studies
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, in
London
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.
Vatikiotis was born in
Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
, the son of Paraskevi and Jerasimos Vatikiotis, and grew up in
Haifa
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.
He was educated at Greek and English private schools in
Mandatory Palestine
Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 ...
before he studied at the
American University in Cairo and
Johns Hopkins University
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.
In the 1960s he moved to London University where he helped get Middle Eastern Studies established.
A ''
festschrift
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'' was published in his honour in 1993.
Works
* ''The Egyptian Army in politics; pattern for new nations?'', 1961
* ''Politics and the military in Jordan : a study of the Arab Legion, 1921-1957'', 1967
* ''Egypt since the revolution'', 1968
* ''The modern history of Egypt'', 1969. 2nd ed published as ''The history of Egypt'', 1980.
* ''Conflict in the Middle East'', 1971
* (ed.) ''Revolution in the Middle East, and other case studies'', 1972
* ''Nasser and his generation'', 1978
* ''The modern history of Egypt'', 1986. Rev. ed. published as ''The history of modern Egypt: from Muhammad Ali to Mubarak'', 1991
*
*''Among Arabs and Jews: A Personal Experience 1936-1990'', 1991
*''Popular Autocracy in Greece 1936-1941
References
1928 births
1997 deaths
Historians of the Middle East
American political scientists
American people of Greek descent
People from Jerusalem
20th-century American historians
American male non-fiction writers
Mandatory Palestine emigrants to the United States
Johns Hopkins University alumni
American expatriates in the United Kingdom
20th-century American male writers
20th-century political scientists
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