Haggai Erlich, Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern and African History at TelAviv University delivered a public lecture in Addis Ababa to Ethiopian Scholars, Artists and Writers. The lecture probed into the vast political and social history of Ethiopia as well as its relations with Israel.
Haggai Erlich is Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern and African History at TelAviv University and Academic Adviser at The Open University of Israel. His PhD (SOAS) focused on the history of Ethiopia. He has written extensively on the subject, including Ethiopia and Eritrea, Ras Alula, 1875–1897 (Michigan State University Press, 1982; Reprint, new preface, Red Sea Press, New Jersey and Asmara, 1997), Ethiopia and the Middle East (Boulder, 1994) and Ethiopia: an Empire and a Revolution (The Open University Press, 1997, Hebrew), to name but a few. His most recent works include Generations of Rage – Students and University in the Middle East (The Open University Press, 2012 Hebrew), Islam and Christianity in the Horn of Africa – Somalia – Ethiopia – Sudan (Boulder, 2010), and Ethiopia – History of a Siege Culture (Tel Aviv, 2008, Hebrew). Haggai Erlich is the recipient of the 2010 Landau Prize in Humanities, African Studies.