Henry Laurens

Henry Laurens currently holds the chair of Modern Arab History at the Collège de France. He is also a professor at the INALCO and a member of the High Council of the Arab World Institute (Haut-Conseil de l’Institut du monde arabe). The recipient in 2004 of the Joseph du Theil prize of the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, he is the author of many books (see a complete bibliography), including a three volume history of Palestine : La question de Palestine, I) l’invention de la Terre sainte (Paris: Fayard, 1999) ; La question de Palestine, II) Une mission sacrée de civilization (Paris: Fayard, 2002) ; La question de Palestine, III) L’accomplissement des prophéties (Paris: Fayard, 2007).