Martin Woollacott and Avi Shlaim Event
OUACS was pleased to host Martin Woollacott and Avi Shlaim in conversation on Suez and Iraq.
Martin Woollacott is a Foreign Affairs commentator for the Guardian, having previously been their Foreign News editor for six years. In over forty years experience as a journalist he has won six awards, including the James Cameron Award for his coverage of Kurdistan in 1991, and was nominated International Reporter of the Year for his coverage of the Vietnam war in 1975. He is the author of After Suez: Adrift in the American Century.
Avi Shlaim is Professorial Fellow and Professor of International Relations at St Antony’s College, Oxford. He is a recognised authority on the international politics of the Middle East and a winner of the WJM Mackenzie Book Prize and the David Watt Memorial Prize. His publications include War and Peace in the Middle East: A Concise History and The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World.
