Biographie
Eirik Kvindesland is a global historian of the modern Middle East, specializing in modern Jewish history in Iran, Palestine and the Persian Gulf. He is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Iranian Studies as part of an ERC PersCom project, led by Dr. Ariane Sadjed.
Eirik wrote his doctoral dissertation at the University of Oxford (2024), exploring the forgotten history of modern Jewish communities in the Persian Gulf, and their transnational interactions with the Indian Ocean, Jerusalem and Palestine. He work has appeared in leading journals such as Past & Present and British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.
His latest book, “Iran and Israel: Old friends, new enemies” (2025, in Norwegian) provides a broad historical introduction to the conflict between Iran and Israel, as well as the less-known Jewish history that binds them together. Eirik is a sought-after public speaker and commentator, appearing with Aljazeera, NRK and TV2. His non-academic writings have appeared in Morgenbladet, Dagens Naeringsliv and Stavanger Aftenblad.
Read more about his work at www.kvindesland.net
Forschungsschwerpunkte
Laufende Projekte
Ausgewählte Publikationen
“Jewish Networks Between The Persian Gulf and Palestine, 1820–1914”, Past & Present, Vol. 267, Issue 1, May 2025, Pages 115–153
“Les émeutes de Manama en 1947, du local au global: Les Juifs du Bahreïn entre panarabisme et tensions sociales”, in Joseph Hirsch et Claire Marynower (ed.), Juifs du monde arabe, pourquoi sont-ils partis?, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France. (Forthcoming)
“The Manama Riots 1947: Bahraini Jews between Palestine and Gulf labour politics“, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 2022.
“Lior B. Sternfeld. Between Iran and Zion. Stanford University Press, 2019” Book review in Babylon Nordic Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, No. 2 2019.
“Valg debatt og konflikt: Osmansk statsborgerskap i Palestina” (Elections, debate and conflict: Ottoman Citizenship in Palestine), Babylon Nordic Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, No. 2 2017.