Sylvia Kedourie (19 December 1925 – 24 October 2016) was an historian of the Middle East.
Biography
She was born Sylvia Haim in
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...
on 19 December 1925.
[ She was married to fellow scholar of the history of the Middle East ]Elie Kedourie
Elie Kedourie (25 January 1926, Baghdad – 29 June 1992, Washington) was a British historian of the Middle East. He wrote from a liberal perspective, dissenting from many points of view taken as orthodox in the field. From 1953 to 1990, he ta ...
.
Kedourie edited a series of books about the Middle East including, ''Seventy-five Years of the Turkish Republic'' (Routledge, 2013);[Lee, Deborah. “Journal of International Affairs.” Journal of International Affairs, vol. 54, no. 1, 2000, pp. 329–331. www.jstor.org/stable/24357705.] ''Turkey : Identity, Democracy, Politics,'' (1996); ''Turkey Before and After Atatürk : Internal and External Affairs'' (1999); ''Arab Nationalism : an Anthology,'' (1976). Together with Elie Kedourie she edited ''Towards a Modern Iran : Studies in Thought, Politics, and Society'' (1980); ''Zionism and Arabism in Palestine and Israel'' (1982), ''Essays on the Economic History of the Middle East'' (1988). Her last book was an edited volume, ''Elie Kedourie's Approaches to History and Political Theory : The Thoughts and Actions of Living Men"'' (2006).
From 1992 to 2016, Kedourie edited ''Middle Eastern Studies
Middle Eastern studies (sometimes referred to as Near Eastern studies) is a name given to a number of academic programs associated with the study of the history, culture, politics, economies, and geography of the Middle East, an area that is gene ...
''.[ She died in London on 24 October 2016.][
]
References
1925 births
2016 deaths
British historians
English non-fiction writers
Historians of the Middle East
Iraqi academics
Iraqi emigrants to the United Kingdom
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