Professor Ilan Pappé is the director of the European Center for Palestine Studies at the university of Exeter and a senior fellow at the University of Exeter’s Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies. He is also the chair of the board of the charity The Nakba Memorial Foundation.

Ilan Pappé was born in Haifa in 1954. He received his D. Phil from the University of Oxford in 1984. From 1984 to 2006, Pappe taught at the University of Haifa and move to the UK in 2007 to the University of Exeter UK.

Pappé wrote 26 books to date, among them The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2007) and On Palestine (jointly with Noam Chomsky in 2010). Among his publications are also The Ten Myths of Israel (2018), The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Israeli Occupation (2019), A Historical Dictionary of Palestine (with Johnny Mansour 2021) and Our Vision for Liberation (with Ramzy Baroud 2022). His two recent books are Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic (2024) and A Very Short History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict.