Panayiotis Jerasimof Vatikiotis (5 February 192815 December 1997) was a

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political scientist and historian of the

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. He was Professor of Politics at the

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, in

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. Vatikiotis was born in

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

, the son of Paraskevi and Jerasimos Vatikiotis, and grew up in

Haifa Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropol ...

. He was educated at Greek and English private schools in

Mandatory Palestine Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 ...

before he studied at the American University in Cairo and

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. In the 1960s he moved to London University where he helped get Middle Eastern Studies established. A ''

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'' was published in his honour in 1993.

Works

* ''The Egyptian Army in politics; pattern for new nations?'', 1961 * ''Politics and the military in Jordan : a study of the Arab Legion, 1921-1957'', 1967 * ''Egypt since the revolution'', 1968 * ''The modern history of Egypt'', 1969. 2nd ed published as ''The history of Egypt'', 1980. * ''Conflict in the Middle East'', 1971 * (ed.) ''Revolution in the Middle East, and other case studies'', 1972 * ''Nasser and his generation'', 1978 * ''The modern history of Egypt'', 1986. Rev. ed. published as ''The history of modern Egypt: from Muhammad Ali to Mubarak'', 1991 * *''Among Arabs and Jews: A Personal Experience 1936-1990'', 1991 *''Popular Autocracy in Greece 1936-1941

References

1928 births 1997 deaths Historians of the Middle East American political scientists American people of Greek descent People from Jerusalem 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers Mandatory Palestine emigrants to the United States Johns Hopkins University alumni American expatriates in the United Kingdom 20th-century American male writers 20th-century political scientists {{US-historian-stub