St Antony's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1950 as the result of the gift of French merchant Sir Antonin Besse of Aden,St Antony's specialises in international relations,economics,politics,and area studies relative to Europe,Russia,former Soviet states,Latin America,the Middle East,Africa,Japan,China,and South and South East Asia.
Albert Habib Hourani was a liberal Lebanese British historian,specialising in the history of the Middle East and Middle Eastern studies.
Robert John Service is a post-revisionist British historian,academic,and author who has written extensively on the history of the Soviet Union,particularly the era from the October Revolution to Stalin's death. He was until 2013 a professor of Russian history at the University of Oxford,a Fellow of St Antony's College,Oxford,and a senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is best known for his biographies of Vladimir Lenin,Joseph Stalin,and Leon Trotsky. He has been a fellow of the British Academy since 1998.
Sir Noel Robert Malcolm,is an English political journalist,historian and academic who is a senior research fellow at All Souls College,Oxford. A King's Scholar at Eton College,Malcolm read history at Peterhouse,Cambridge,and received his doctorate in history from Trinity College,Cambridge. He was a Fellow and College Lecturer of Gonville and Caius College,Cambridge,before becoming a political and foreign affairs journalist for The Spectator and the Daily Telegraph.
Sir David Nicholas Cannadine is a British author and historian who specialises in modern history,Britain and the history of business and philanthropy. He is currently the Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University,a visiting professor of history at Oxford University,and the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He was president of the British Academy between 2017 and 2021,the UK's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. He also serves as the chairman of the trustees of the National Portrait Gallery in London and vice-chair of the editorial board of Past &Present.
Clifford Edmund Bosworth FBA was an English historian and Orientalist,specialising in Arabic and Iranian studies.
Hugh Nigel Kennedy is a British medievalist and academic. He specialises in the history of the early Islamic Middle East,Muslim Iberia and the Crusades. From 1997 to 2007,he was Professor of Middle Eastern History at the University of St Andrews. Since 2007,he has been Professor of Arabic at SOAS,University of London.
Geoffrey Alan Hosking is a British historian of Russia and the Soviet Union and formerly Leverhulme Research Professor of Russian History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) at University College,London. He also co-founded Nightline.
Geoffrey Lewis Lewis was an English Turkologist and the first Professor of Turkish at the University of Oxford. He is known as the author of Teach Yourself Turkish and academic books about Turkish and Turkey.
The Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies,is a subdivision of the University of Oxford.
Charles Rees Howard Tripp,is an academic and author specializing in the politics and history of the Near and Middle East.
Andrew James Hurrell,FBA is a leading British scholar of international relations. He is currently a senior research fellow at Balliol College,Oxford,having previously been Montague Burton Professor of International Relations from 2008 to 2021.
Sir Keith Vivian Thomas is a Welsh historian of the early modern world based at Oxford University. He is best known as the author of Religion and the Decline of Magic and Man and the Natural World. From 1986 to 2000,he was president of Corpus Christi College,Oxford.
Colin David Hugh Jones is a British historian of France and professor of history at Queen Mary University of London.
Cyprian Broodbank,is a British archaeologist and academic. Since October 2014,he has been Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge and director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. From 2010 to 2014,he was Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology at University College London.
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger is a French academic palaeographer who specialises in medieval Jewish manuscripts. Since September 2018,she has been President of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford.
Keith Edwin Wrightson,is a British historian who specialises in early modern England.
The 1915 uprising in Karbala was an Arab uprising against the Ottoman Empire that took place in June 1915.
John Frederick Haldon FBA is a British historian,and Shelby Cullom Davis '30 Professor of European History emeritus,professor of Byzantine history and Hellenic Studies emeritus,as well as former director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University.
