| OFRA BENGIO |
| OFRA BENGIO,
PhD (Tel Aviv University, 1994) Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan
Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. Professor, Department of
Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University. Fields of specialization:
contemporary Middle Eastern history, modern and contemporary politics of
Iraq and the Arabic language. Author of The Kurdish Revolt in Iraq (1989, in Hebrew), Saddam Speaks on the Gulf Crisis, A Collection of Documents (1991); Political Discourse and the Language of Power (1996, Hebrew); Saddam's Word (1998); The Love and Wine Poems of Abu Nuwas (1999, in Hebrew); The Turkish-Israeli Relationship: Changing Ties of Middle Eastern Outsiders (2004); Editor (with Gabriel Ben-Dor) Minorities and the State in the Arab World (1999); Editor Women in the Middle East: Between Tradition and Change (1999, Hebrew). email: bengio@post.tau.ac.il |
| JOSEPH KOSTINER |
| JOSEPH
KOSTINER, PhD (London School of Economics and Political Science,
University of London, 1982). Chair, School of History 2000-2004; Senior
Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African
Studies; Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and African
History at Tel Aviv University. Fields of specialization: history and
current affairs of the Arabian Peninsula states, social history of the
Middle East, state and nation-building in the Middle East.
Author of The Struggle for South Yemen (1984); South Yemen's Revolutionary Strategy (1990); From Chieftaincy to Monarchical State: The Making of Saudi Arabia 1916-1936 (1993); Yemen: The Tortuous Quest for Unity, 1990-1994 (1996). Coeditor (with P.S. Khoury) of Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East (1991). Editor of Middle East Monarchies (2000). email: kostiner@post.tau.ac.il |
| EPHRAIM LAVIE |
|
EPHRAIM
LAVIE, MA (Haifa University/IDF National Security College, 1997).
Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African
Studies; currently preparing a dissertation at TAU on the Palestinian
civil society. IDF Colonel (ret.). Fields of specialization: Palestinian
society and politics, civil society in the Arab world, modern history of
Egypt, modern istory of Jordan.
Co-author of The Israeli-Palestinian Violent Confrontation
2000-2004: From Conflict Resolution to Conflict Management (2005).
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| MEIR LITVAK |
| MEIR LITVAK,
PhD (Harvard University, 1991). Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan
Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, and Senior Lecturer in the
Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University.
Fields of specialization: modern Shi‘i history and Palestinian
politics.
Author of Shi`i Scholars in 19th Century Iraq: The Shi`i `Ulama of
Najaf and Karbala (1998) and articles on Palestinian issues and Shi`i
history. Editor of Islam and Democracy in the Arab World (Hebrew,
1997). |
| BRUCE MADDY-WEITZMAN |
| BRUCE
MADDY-WEITZMAN, PhD (Tel Aviv University, 1988). Senior Research
Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies.
Fields of specialization: contemporary Middle Eastern history, inter-Arab
relations, and the modern Maghrib.
Author of The Crystallization of the Arab State System, 1945-1954
(1993), Palestinian
and Israeli Intellectuals in the Shadow of Oslo and Intifadat al-Aqsa
(2002), and articles on regional Arab politics and Maghrib affairs.
Coeditor of Religious Radicalism in the Greater Middle East (1997).
Editor (1995-2000) / Co-editor 1994) of the
Center's annual yearbook, Middle East Contemporary Survey. Co- editor
of The Camp David Summit - What Went Wrong? (2005). Co-editor of The Maghrib in the New Century: Identity, Religion and Politics (forthcoming, 2007). |
| DAVID MENASHRI |
|
DAVID MENASHRI, PhD (Tel Aviv University, 1982), is the incumbent of the Parviz and Pouran Nazarian Chair for Modern Iranian Studies, Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern and African History, and Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, all at Tel Aviv University. Field of specialization: the history and politics of Iran. Author of Post-Revolutionary
Politics in Iran: Religion, Society and Power (2001); Revolution at
a Crossroads: Iran's Domestic Politics and Regional Ambitions (1997), Iran:
Between Islam and the West (1996, in Hebrew), Education and the
Making of Modern Iran (1992), Iran: A Decade of War and Revolution
(1990), and Iran in Revolution (1988, in Hebrew). Editor of The
Iranian Revolution and the Muslim World (1990), Central Asia Meets
the Middle East (1998), Islamic Fundamentalism: A Challenge to
Regional Stability (1993, in Hebrew). Published numerous papers on
Iranian politics. |
| AMOS NADAN |
| AMOS NADAN, PhD (London School of
Economics, 2002). Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for
Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University. Field of
specialization: economic history and political economics of the Middle
East. Author of The Palestinian Peasant Economy under the Mandate: A Story of Colonial Bungling (Harvard University Press, 2006); co-editor(with Michel Abitbol), Nehemia Levtzion, Islam in Africa and the Middle East: Studies on Conversion and Renewal (Variorum, 2006). email: nadan@post.tau.ac.il |
| ITAMAR RABINOVICH |
| AMB. ITAMAR
RABINOVICH, PhD (UCLA, 1971) is President of Tel Aviv University and
Ettinger Professor of Contemporary Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv
University. He is Andrew White Professor at Large at Cornell
University and a Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for
Middle Eastern and African Studies.
From 1992-1996 he was Israel's Chief Negotiator with Syria and Ambassador in Washington. Director, The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (1980-1988), Dean of Humanities (1989-1990) and Rector of the University (1990-1992). He is the author of several books: Syria under the Ba'ath; The
War for Lebanon; The Road Not Taken: Early Arab-Israeli
Negotiations; The Brink of Peace: Israel & Syria,
1992-1994; and Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs at the End of The
Century. |
| ELIE REKHESS |
| ELIE REKHESS,
PhD (Tel Aviv University, 1986). Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan
Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies and Director of the Konrad
Adenauer Foundation Program for Jewish-Arab Cooperation. Fields of
specialization: political history of the Arabs in Israel; Islamic
resurgence in Israel; the West Bank and Gaza and Palestinian affairs.
Editor of Together but Apart: Mixed Cities –
Comparative Approach (2006, Hebrew); Arab Politics in Israel at a
Crossroad (1996); The Arab Minority in Israel: Dilemmas of
Political Orientation and Social Change (1994); Co-editor of The
Arabs in Israel: National Minority in a Jewish Nation-State (2005,
Hebrew); The Municipal Elections in the Arab and Druze Sector, 2003:
Clans, Sectarianism and Political Parties (2005, Hebrew). Author of The
Arab Minority in Israel: Between Communism and Arab Nationalism (1993,
Hebrew). |
| PAUL RIVLIN |
| PAUL RIVLIN,
PhD (University of London, 1984). Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe
Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University.
Field of specialization: the Middle East economy and its historical
development.
Author of The Dynamics of Economic Policy Making in Egypt (1985),
The Israel Economy (1992), Economic Policy and Performance in
the Arab World (2001), and papers on defense economics and Arab
economies. |
| YEHUDIT RONEN |
| YEHUDIT RONEN,
PhD (Tel Aviv University, 1997). Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan
Center, for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Senior Lecturer, Political
Science Department, Bar Ilan University. Fields of specialization: History
and politics of Sudan, Libya and North Africa.
Author
of Sudan in a Civil War: Between Africanism, Arabism and Islam
(1995, in Hebrew). Editor of The Maghrib: Politics, Society, Economy (1998,
in Hebrew). |
| ARYEH SHMUELEVITZ |
| Obituary: Martin Kramer on
Aryeh Shmuelevitz
ARYEH SHMUELEVITZ, PhD (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1981). Professor for Middle Eastern History and former Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History. Professor Shmuelevitz is one of the founders of the Shiloah Institute (later the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies) and its annual publication, The Middle East Record, and is a Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center. Fields of specialization: History and society of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey and Iran; the Jews of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey. Author of The Jews of the Ottoman Empire in the Late 15th and the
16th Centuries (1984); and editor of Seder Eliyahu Zuta by
Rabbi Eliyahu Capsali (History of the Ottomans in three volumes, 1975,
1977, 1983, in Hebrew); co-editor of The Middle East Record (1960,
1961, 1967, 1968, 1969/70) and of The Hashemites in the Modern Arab
World (1995).
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| ASHER SUSSER |
| ASHER SUSSER,
PhD (Tel Aviv University, 1986).
Director for External Affairs and Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan
Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies and former Director of the
Center (1989-1995, 2001-2007). Professor Susser teaches in the Department of
Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University and in 2006 he
received the Faculty of Humanities outstanding teacher's award. Fields of
specialization: history and politics of Jordan and the Palestinians;
religion and state in the Middle East; and Arab-Israeli issues.
Author of The PLO after the War
in Lebanon (1985, in Hebrew), On Both Banks of the Jordan: A
Political Biography of Wasfi al-Tall (1994), and Jordan, Case
Study of a Pivotal State (2000). Co-editor of At the Core of the
Conflict: The Intifada (1992, in Hebrew), and The Hashemites in
the Modern Arab World (1995); editor of Six-Days, Thirty Years:
New Perspectives on the Six-Day War (1999, in Hebrew). |
| MORDECHAI TAMARKIN |
| MORDECHAI
TAMARKIN, PhD (The School of Asian and African Studies, University of
London, 1974). Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and African
History, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle
Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University.
Author of The Making of Zimbabwe: Recolonization in Regional and
International Politics (1990), Cecil Rhodes and the Cape
Afrikaners: The Imperial Colossus and the Colonial Parish Pump,
(1996). Published numerous articles on Kenya, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and
ethnicity and nationalism in Africa. |
| JOSHUA TEITELBAUM |
|
JOSHUA TEITELBAUM, PhD (Tel Aviv University, 1996). Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University. Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University. W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo Campbell National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Fields of specialization: the history of the Arabian Peninsula, specifically Saudi Arabia, Palestinian history and politics. Author of The Rise and Fall of the Hashimite Kingdom of Arabia (2001) and Holier Than Thou: Saudi Arabia’s Islamic Opposition (2000). Editor of Political Liberalization in the Persian Gulf (2008). email: teitelba@post.tau.ac.il |
| ESTHER WEBMAN |
| ESTHER WEBMAN,
MA (Tel Aviv University, 1996). Research Associate at the Moshe Dayan
Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies and Research Fellow at the
Project for the Study of Anti-Semitism, Tel Aviv University. Fields of
specialization: contemporary Muslim-Jewish Relations, Muslims in Britain,
and modern Islamic movements. email: webman@post.tau.ac.il Articles on Usama bin Ladin in Middle East Contemporary Survey |
| MICHAEL WINTER |
| MICHAEL WINTER,
PhD (UCLA, 1972). Professor Emeritus in the History of the Middle
East at Tel Aviv University. Fields of specialization: history of the Arab
lands (particularly Egypt and greater Syria) during the Mamluk and Ottoman
periods, Sufism, `ulama and qadis, education in the Middle
East (past and present) and political thought in Islam.
Author of Society and Religion in Early Ottoman Egypt: Studies in the Writings of `Abd al-Wahhab al-Sh`arani (1982); Egyptian Society under Ottoman Rule, 1517-1798 (1992), and co-editor of The Mamluks in Egyptian and Syrian Politics and Society (2004), and The Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic: Studies in Memory of Aryeh Shmuelevitz (in Hebrew, forthcoming).
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| DANIEL ZISENWINE |
| DANIEL
ZISENWINE, PhD (Tel Aviv University, 2005). Post-Doctoral Fellow at
the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. Field of
specialization: North Africa. email: danz@post.tau.ac.il |
| EYAL ZISSER |
| EYAL ZISSER,
PhD (Tel Aviv University, 1992). Director and Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan
Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies; Professor in the Department
of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University, and Chair of
the Department. Fields of specialization: the history and politics of
Syria and Lebanon.
Author of Asad's Syria at a Crossroads (1999, in
Hebrew), Lebanon: the Challenge of Independece (2000), Asad's
Legacy: Syria in Transition (2000), Faces of Syria (2003, in
Hebrew), In the Name of the Father, Bashshar al-Asad's First Years in
Power (2004, in Hebrew), Commanding Syria, Bashshar al-Asad's First
Years in Power (2005) and of several studies on modern Syrian and
Lebanese politics. |
