Faculty Members

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• Elisheva Machlis, Phd :
  • E-mail: machlise@post.tau.ac.il
• Mr. Lago Abraham :
  • Academic Interests: Turkish
• Yoav Alon, Phd :
  • Phone: 03-6407959
  • E-mail: yalon@post.tau.ac.il
  • Academic Interests: State-Tribe Relations in the Modern Middle East, The Modern History of Jordan, Israeli-Jordanian relations, The British Empire in the Middle East& British Imperial history and historiography
• Ms. Naomi Avivi :
  • E-mail: naomik1@012.net.il
  • Academic Interests: Arabic
• Prof. Ami Ayalon :
  • Phone: 03-6406438
  • E-mail: aayalon@post.tau.ac.il
  • Academic Interests: Modern political and cultural history of Arab societies; history of Middle Eastern press and communications; Palestinian history
• Irit Back, Phd :
  • Phone: 03-6406439
  • E-mail: iritbak@post.tau.ac.il
  • Academic Interests: Islam,Gender & African History
• Prof. Nasir Basal :
  • Phone: 03-6406441
  • E-mail: nbasal@post.tau.ac.il
  • Academic Interests: Medieval Judau-Arabic culture
• Prof. Dan Beker (Retired) :
• Prof. Ofra Bengio (Retired) :
  • Phone: 03-6406446
  • E-mail: bengio@post.tau.ac.il
  • Academic Interests: Iraq
• Chen Bram, Phd :
  • E-mail: chenb@mscc.huji.ac.il
• Harel Chorev, Phd :
  • Phone: 6448
  • E-mail: harel.chorev@gmail.com
  • Academic Interests: Network Analysis and its implementation in Middle Eastern studies, History of the Family, Socio-Cultural History of the Palestinians, Socio-Cultural History of Lebanon with emphasis on the Shiites.
• Mr. Yuval Dagan :
  • Academic Interests: arabic
• Ms. Edna Dahari - Davidovitch :
  • E-mail: ednad@bgu.ac.il
  • Academic Interests: Arabic
• Prof. Haggai Erlich (Emeritus) :
  • Phone: 03-6409710
  • E-mail: erlich@post.tau.ac.il
• Nehara Feldman, Phd :
  • E-mail: neharaf@gmail.com
• Prof. Moshe Gammer :
  • Phone: 03-6409476
  • E-mail: moshega@post.tau.ac.il
  • Academic Interests: History of the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Muslim World in General, The Modern Middle East, Historiography and the connection between politics and history, Russia and the World of Islam, France and the Middle East
• Prof. Israel Gershoni :
  • Phone: 03-6408536
  • E-mail: gershon@post.tau.ac.il
  • Academic Interests: History of modern Egypt and the Arab Middle East
• Prof. Yekutiel Gershoni (Emeritus) :
  • Phone: 03-6409981
  • E-mail: gygygy@post.tau.ac.il
  • Academic Interests: African History, Political History of West Africa, Relationship between Africans and African-Americans, History of Africa south of the Sahara
• Irit Getreuer, Phd :
  • Phone: 03-6409978
  • E-mail: dannyget@zahzv.net.il
• Liora Hendelman-Baavur, Phd :
  • Phone: 03-6407404
  • E-mail: hendelma@post.tau.ac.il
  • Academic Interests: Gender, civil society & internet use in Iran, popular culture in the Middle East
• Yahya Khoon, Phd :
  • E-mail: khoon@netvision.net.il
• Leah Kinberg, Phd :
  • Phone: 052-8695050
  • E-mail: Islamic@post.tau.ac.il
  • Academic Interests: Ethico-Religious Aspects of Islam, Classical Islam in Contemporary Media, E-Learning (Arabic and Islam)
• Mr. Paul Bernard Liptz (Retired) :
  • Phone: 02-6711491
  • E-mail: pbliptz@netvision.net.il
  • Academic Interests: Arab and African Women, Nationalism in Southern Africa, White Settlement in Africa, Education using Movies for analysis
• Prof. Meir Litvak :
  • Phone: 03-6409510
  • E-mail: litvak@post.tau.ac.il
  • Academic Interests: Shi`ite and Iranian History, Islamist movements and ideology with an emphasis on Hamas, Arab anti-Semitism, Palestinian society
• Prof. David Menashri :
  • Phone: 03-6409510
  • E-mail: menashri@post.tau.ac.il
  • Academic Interests: Modern Iran, political Islam (mainly Shiah Islam), Central Asia, Persian Gulf, education in the Middle East
• Mr. Haim Nissim :
  • E-mail: h_nissim@bezeqint.net
  • Academic Interests: Arabic
• Michael Nizri, Phd :
  • E-mail: michaelniz@ariel.ac.il
• Anita Nudelman, Phd :
  • E-mail: anitanudelman@hotmail.com
• Ms. Ayelet Palti :
  • E-mail: ayeletpalti@yahoo.com
• Omri Paz, Phd :
  • E-mail: omri.paz@gmail.com
• Mr. ILAN RUBIN :
  • E-mail: i-rubin@zahav.net.il
  • Academic Interests: ARABIC
• Prof. Uzi Rabi :
  • Phone: 03-6409450
  • E-mail: urabi@post.tau.ac.il
  • Academic Interests: The modern history of states in the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf, Oil and Politics in the Middle East, The evolution of states and societies in the Middle East
• Prof. Itamar Rabinovitch (Emeritus) :
  • Phone: 6409260
  • E-mail: itrabi@gmail.com
  • Academic Interests: Political and Diplomatic History of the Modern Middle East, Israel-Arab Relations, The US in the Middle East, Syria and Lebanon
• Prof. Galia Sabar :
  • Phone: 03-6408012
  • E-mail: gsafrica@post.tau.ac.il
  • Academic Interests: African Social History. /State-Society relation in modern Africa./ Socio-political factors affecting HIV/AIDS. /African migrant laborers in Israel./ African Christianity
• Prof. Shimon Shamir (Emeritus) :
  • Phone: 6406560
  • E-mail: shimons@post.tau.ac.il
  • Academic Interests: Egypt, Jordan, Palestinians in Modern Times, Intellectuals and ideologies in the Arab World, Modern History of the Middle East , Arab-Israeli Conflict
• Miri Shefer, Phd :
  • Phone: 03-6407060
  • E-mail: shefer@post.tau.ac.il
  • Academic Interests: The pre-1800 Ottoman Empire; Medical history of the Muslim world: health institutions, Ottomanization of Arab-Galenic medicine, modernization & westernization, madness; The Middle East and Muslim world in the early modern period: social and cultural history.
• Prof. Amy Singer :
  • Phone: 03-6406764
  • E-mail: asinger@post.tau.ac.il
  • Academic Interests: Social and economic history of the Ottoman Empire, History of charity and philanthropy, altruism, endowments. Modern Turkey, Agrarian history.
• Prof. Asher Susser :
  • Phone: 03-6406443
  • E-mail: susser@post.tau.ac.il
  • Academic Interests: Middle Eastern History, Historiography
• Prof. Mordechai Tamarkin (Retired) :
  • Phone: 03-6406762
  • E-mail: mottie@post.tau.ac.il
  • Academic Interests: Ethnicity and Nationalism.,Ethnicity and Nationalism.,Conflict Resolution.,South Africa.,Romania – Relations between Romanians and Hungarians
• Prof. Ehud R Toledano :
  • Phone: 03-6409750
  • E-mail: toledano@post.tau.ac.il
  • Academic Interests: Ottoman History, Social and Cultural History of the Arab , iddle East and Islamic Societies, Ottoman-Arab History
• Nurit Tsafrir, Phd :
  • Phone: 03-6409339
  • E-mail: tsafrir@post.tau.ac.il
• Mira Tzoreff, Phd :
  • Phone: 036408092
  • E-mail: tzoreff@bezeqint.net
• Bruce A. Maddy Weitzman, Phd :
  • Phone: 6406447
  • E-mail: bmaddy@post.tau.ac.il
  • Academic Interests: Regional Arab politics, State-society relations in the Maghreb, Intellectuals and politics in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
• Prof. Michael Winter (Emeritus) :
  • Phone: 6408593
  • E-mail: winter@post.tau.ac.il
  • Academic Interests: History of the Middle East in the Middle Ages and the Ottoman period, Islam (classical and modern), Sufism, Education in the Middle East
• Prof. David Yerushalmi :
  • Phone: 03-6407299
  • E-mail: d.yeroush@gmail.com
• Yakov Yosef, Phd :
  • Phone: 03-6405028
  • E-mail: kobycocus@gmail.com
• Daniel Zisenwine, Phd :
  • Phone: 6406461
  • E-mail: danz@post.tau.ac.il
  • Academic Interests: Modern North African History
• Prof. Eyal Zisser :
  • Phone: 03-6409100
  • E-mail: zisser@post.tau.ac.il
  • Academic Interests: The Modern History of Syria, The Modern History of Syria, The Modern History of Lebanon ,The Arab-Israeli conflict, Inter-Arab Relations
• Ms. hadas sofer :
  • E-mail: hadassof@post.tau.ac.il
• Ms. idit toledano :
  • E-mail: idittoledano@gmail.com