
Professor Harari was born in Haifa, Israel, to Lebanese parents in 1976. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 2002, and is now a lecturer at the Department of History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He specialized in World History, medieval history and military history. His current research focuses on macro-historical questions: What is the relation between history and biology? What is the essential difference between Homo sapiens and other animals? Is there justice in history? Does history have a direction? Did people become happier as history unfolded? Prof. Harari also teaches a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) titled A Brief History of Humankind. Prof. Harari twice won the Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality, in 2009 and 2012. In 2011 he won the Society for Military History’s Moncado Award for outstanding articles in military history.

2018

2011

A Brief History of Tomorrow
2015

2018

2020
2025

A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
2024

War, History and Identity, 1450-1600
2004

A Graphic History Volume 1 and Volume 2 by Yuval Noah Harari
2021

A Brief History of Humankind
2011

A Graphic History, Volume 2 - The Pillars of Civilization
2021

Volume 1
2020

The E-book Collection: A Brief History of Humankind and A Brief History of Tomorrow
2017

2007

Battlefield Revelations and the Making of Modern War Culture, 1450-2000
2008

Why the World Isn't Fair
2023

How Humans Took Over the World
2022

How Enemies Become Friends
2024

2025

2015

2017