Henry Laurens (scholar)

Henry Laurens (born 1954, Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French historian and author of several histories and studies about the Arab-Muslim world.

He is Professor and Chair of History of the Contemporary Arab world at the Collège de France, Paris.

He was awarded his doctorate, with high distinction, in 1989 at the Sorbonne–Paris IV, with a thesis on The French Revolution and Islam : History and Meanings of the Egyptian Expedition, 1798-1801.

Professor of Late modern period at Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales from 1991 to 2001, Henry Laurens is also the director of the Mediterranean Studies doctoral training there from 1992 to 1995 and the director of the North Africa Middle East department from 1992 to 1994.

[5] His five-volume work La Question de Palestine was published in 1999–2015 and covers 19th- and 20th-century Palestinian history.