# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/efraim-karsh
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:45:30.662Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/efraim-karsh"
name: "Efraim Karsh"
slug: "efraim-karsh"
description: "Efraim Karsh is an Israeli and British historian who is the founding director and emeritus professor of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at King's College London. Since 2013, he has served as professor of political studies at Bar-Ilan University. He is also a principal research fellow and former director of the Middle East Forum, a Philadelphia-based think tank. He is a vocal critic of the New Historians, a group of Israeli scholars who have questioned the traditional Israeli narrative of the Arab–Israeli conflict."
tagline: "Israeli-British historian (born 1953)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%D7%90%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%A9_-_%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%98%D7%9E%D7%91%D7%A8_2018.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1953-09-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.95
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.175741333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Efraim Karsh"
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    title: "Efraim Karsh"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump