Dr Nir Arielli is Lecturer in International History at the School of History, University of Leeds.
Research
Dr Arielli’s main areas of research are Palestine under the British Mandate, the Arab-Israeli conflict, Fascist Italy’s foreign and colonial policies, and transnational armed volunteers. His current research project examines the motivations, experiences and impact of international volunteers who went to Israel and took part in the war of 1948.
Principal Publications
Books
Nir Arielli and Bruce Collins (eds), Transnational Soldiers: Foreign Military Enlistment in the Modern Era (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
Fascist Italy and the Middle East, 1933-40 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
Articles
‘In search of meaning: foreign volunteers in the Croatian armed forces, 1991-95’, Contemporary European History, 21, no. 1 (2012), pp. 1-17.
‘Induced to volunteer? The predicament of Jewish Communists in Palestine and the Spanish Civil War’, Journal of Contemporary History, 46, no. 4 (2011), pp. 854-70.
‘“Haifa is still burning”: Italian, German and French air raids on Palestine during the Second World War’, Middle Eastern Studies, 46, no. 3 (2010), pp. 331-47.
‘Italian involvement in the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936-39’, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 35, no. 2 (2008), pp. 187-204.
Middle East Research Group 