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Dr Amnon Aran is Senior Lecturer in International Politics at City, University
of London. He is the author of Israeli Foreign Policy since the End of the Cold War
(Cambridge University Press, 2021); Israeli Foreign Policy Towards the PLO (Sussex
Academic Press, 2009), and co-author (with Chis Alden) of Foreign Policy Analysis:
New Approaches (Routledge, 2011)

Zach Levey is Professor of International Relations and Chair of the Division of
International Relations in the School of Political Science, University of Haifa. He
is author of the books Israel and the Western Powers: 1952-1960 (University of North
Carolina, 1997); Israel in Africa: 1956-1976 (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2012); and
co-editor (with Elie Podeh), Britain and the Middle East: From Imperial Power to Junior
Partner (Sussex Academic Press, 2007)

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In January 2022 Edith Hall was appointed to a Professorship in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University in the North-East of England, but travels across Britain and the world to speak about the ancient world to schools, universities, theatre companies, public events and the media.

Her specialism is ancient Greek literature, but she enjoys putting the pleasure as well as the rigour into all aspects of ancient Greek and Roman history, society, and thought.
Her current research investigates ecological issues in ancient myth, epic and drama, Aristotle’s presences beyond the Academy, Aristotle’s writing styles, the afterlives of women in the Aeneid and Classics and Social Class in the North-East of England.
Edith has now published more than thirty books, broadcasts frequently on radio and television, works as consultant with professional theatres, lectures all over the world, and publishes widely in academic and mainstream journals and newspapers.
She is a world leader in the study of ethnicity, class and gender in ancient sources, of ancient theatre, and of the instrumentality of ancient ideas in world culture since the Renaissance.
Her current research investigates ecological issues in ancient myth, epic and drama, Aristotle’s presences beyond the Academy, Aristotle’s writing styles, the afterlives of women in the Aeneid and Classics and Social Class in the North-East of England.
Edith has now published more than thirty books, broadcasts frequently on radio and television, works as consultant with professional theatres, lectures all over the world, and publishes widely in academic and mainstream journals and newspapers.
She is a world leader in the study of ethnicity, class and gender in ancient sources, of ancient theatre, and of the instrumentality of ancient ideas in world culture since the Renaissance.
She has supervised more than thirty-five PhD students on topics across her research interests and welcomes expressions of interest from potential applicants from a wide range of academic backgrounds.
Edith has held posts at Cambridge, Oxford, Durham, Reading and Royal Holloway, and visiting positions at Notre Dame, Swarthmore, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Leiden, and Erfurt.
On 22nd April 2023 Edith was delighted to be awarded the Classical Association Prize. Professor Tim Whitmarsh, Regius Chair of Greek at Cambridge, said at the ceremony that her ‘energy and determination to promote the study of the ancient world is unfailing. Her academic interests range widely from Greek theatre to Aristotle, ancient slavery to women classicists, but the one constant throughout her career, underpinning everything she does, is a commitment to making classics more accessible and inclusive’.

Here is a sample of her publications:

2025 Epic of the Earth: Reading Homer’s Iliad in the Fight for a Dying World. Yale U.P.
2025 A Very Short Introduction to Sophocles. Oxford: O.U.P.
2025 Classical Civilisation and Ancient History in British Secondary Education (co-authored
with Arlene Holmes-Henderson). Liverpool UP.
2024 Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, edited with Translation, Introduction and Commentary. Aris &
Phillips.
2024 Facing down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me. Yale University Press.
2021 Tony Harrison: Poet of Radical Classicism. Bloomsbury.
2020 A People’s History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity. Routledge Taylor
Francis. Co-authored with Henry Stead.
2018 Aristotle’s Way. Penguin/Random House. Much translated.
2014 Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western
Mind. Norton/Bodley Head. Much translated.
2013 Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris: A Cultural History of Euripides’ Black Sea Tragedy.
OUP.
2010 Greek Tragedy: Suffering under the Sun. OUP.
2008 The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer’s Odyssey. IB Tauris & Johns
Hopkins UP.
2006 The Theatrical Cast of Athens: Interactions between Ancient Greek Drama & Society.
OUP.
2005 *Greek Tragedy & the British Theatre 1660-*1914. With Fiona Macintosh. OUP.
1996 Aeschylus’ Persians, ed. with Introduction, Translation & Commentary. Aris & Phillips/
Oxbow.
1989 Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-Definition through Tragedy. OUP.

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Professor Plesch is Professor of Diplomacy and Strategy at SOAS University of London and is a 'door tenant' at the legal chambers of 9 Bedford Row, in London.
His most recent research includes: Masters of the Air: Strategic Stability and Conventional Strikes; Open Source Investigations in the Age of Google; and Women and the UN: a new history of women’s international human rights.
He is the author of Human Rights After Hitler - featured on Netflix, reported on US National Public Radio and in other international media. His previous books include: America Hitler and the UN, Wartime Origins and the Future UN (with Prof. Weiss) and the Beauty Queen's Guide to World Peace. He leads research on the UN, War Crimes and on Disarmament. See www.scrapweapons.com www. unwcc.org and the cisd research pages.
Plesch read history at Nottingham and qualified in social work and public administration at Bristol and has a PhD in political science from Keele. In 1986 he founded the British American Security Information Council (BASIC) and directed it from Washington DC until 2001, when he became the Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies in London.
Plesch has been Scholar in Residence at the School of International Service at American University, Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Peace Studies at Bradford University, Research Associate at Birkbeck College, University of London and Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Keele University.
Outside academia, he has acted as advisor to the UK and US governments, the BBC, CNN and Sky News. He was the independent advisor to the UK government's department of constitutional affairs on the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act. His research has featured in global media since the 1980s.
Research interests
In 1985 the Washington Post devoted a front-page 1,200 word news story to his research into the nuclear weapons policies of the Reagan Administration and its NATO allies, and the relationship of these governments to their legislatures. Since then his research has been focused on critical contemporary global issues and his work has often attracted similar attention.
For fifteen years he led international research-based applied international relations programmes as director of BASIC. These programmes focused on Western nuclear weapons policy, doctrine and deployments, UN disarmament processes, EU and NATO security policy and the development of global controls on small arms. This research was supported by governments and by such organisations as the Ford and MacArthur Foundations.
In recent years he has broaden his research into area including corporate accountability, energy policy, global counter-insurgency strategies, the origins of the present UN system and UK Parliamentary law.