The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories

Neil Caplan holds a PhD in Politics from London School of Economics & Political Science (University of London) and is Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at Concordia University and Scholar in Residence at Vanier College, Montreal, Canada. He recently retired after 35 years of teaching in the Humanities Department of Vanier College. He has published numerous articles and seven books, including Palestine Jewry and the Arab Question, 1917-1925 (1978), Futile Diplomacy, a four-volume study of Arab-Zionist and Arab-Israeli negotiations from 1913 to 1956, and (with Laurie Z. Eisenberg), Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: Patterns, Problems, Possibilities (1998; revised edition 2010).