Richard Allen Landes (born 1949)[citation needed] is an American historian and author who specializes in medieval millennial thinking.
[1] His early publications were concerned with hagiography; his first published monograph was a translation of the vita of Saint Martial;[2] his second on the scribe and forger Adémar de Chabannes.
Since 2015, he has been a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Communication at Bar-Ilan University, in Ramat Gan, Israel.
[9][better source needed] In "Orientalism, a Thousand and One Times"[10] and "Warientalism, or the Carrier of Firewood,"[11] Landes' discourse is labelled Warientalist, a concept that refers to a discourse defined by power and sentiment rather than knowledge.
Landes coined the term Pallywood (a portmanteau for "Palestinian Hollywood"), described by Ruthie Blum as referring to alleged "productions staged by the Palestinians, in front of (and often with cooperation from) Western camera crews, for the purpose of promoting anti-Israel propaganda by disguising it as news.