Elie Kedourie

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Elie Kedourie CBE FBA
Born	(1926-01-25)25 January 1926 Baghdad, Iraq
Died	29 June 1992(1992-06-29) (aged 66) Washington, D.C., United States
Nationality	British
Education	London School of Economics, St Antony's College, Oxford
Occupation	Middle East historian
Spouse	Sylvia Kedourie

Elie Kedourie CBE FBA (25 January 1926, Baghdad – 29 June 1992, Washington) was a British historian of the Middle East. He wrote from a perspective that dissented from many points of view taken as orthodox in the field. From 1953 to 1990, he taught at the London School of Economics, where he became Professor of Politics. Kedourie was famous for his rejection of what he called the "Chatham House version" of history, which viewed the story of the modern Middle East as one of continuous victimisation at the hands of the West, and instead castigated left-wing Western intellectuals for what he regarded as a naively romantic view of Islam.^[1]