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Dr Nir Arielli

Dr Nir Arielli

  • Position: Associate Professor of International History
  • Areas of expertise: Transnational war volunteers; the Arab-Israeli conflict; international relations in Europe and the Middle East, 1919-1948; the foreign and colonial policies of Fascist Italy; history of the Dead Sea
  • Email: N.Arielli@leeds.ac.uk
  • Phone: +44(0)113 343 0227
  • Website: academia.edu

Research interests

My research thus far has focused on:

  • The history of foreign war volunteering and foreign fighters
  • Transnational military mobilization from the French Revolution to the present
  • Pre-1948 Palestine and the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict
  • The foreign and colonial policies of Fascist Italy

My current research project examines the human history of the Dead Sea

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Current postgraduate researchers

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