Benny Morris is the Goldman Visiting Israeli Professor in Georgetown University's Department of Government and professor of history at Ben-Gurion University. He is the author of ten books, including The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem and 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War, which received the National Jewish Book Award. He is currently completing a book on Turkey's relations with its Christian minorities in the late Ottoman and early Republican periods. His exchange with Martin Kramer on events in Lydda in July 1948 appears in The War on Error.
