Elad Ben David is a Ph.D. candidate from the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at Bar-Ilan University and a researcher in the Middle East Network Analysis Desk at Tel-Aviv University. His doctoral research deals with Islam in America, emphasizing Da’wa activity (call to Islam) in prominent Muslim preachers' doctrine.   Elad’s fields of study in […]

Idan Yaron, Ph.D. in sociology and social anthropology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Areas of specialization: cultural studies; research of radical and extreme right in Israel; military studies; the sociology of school; the study of human-animal relationships; editing studies. Books: The Toilet in the Symbolic Sphere. Tel Aviv: Resling, 2005 (Hebrew); Reflections: Visiting the […]

Dr. Tsameret Levy-Dafny is the Director of the Forum for contemporary Turkish studies at the Van Leer Institute since 2016. She completed her doctoral studies at Tel Aviv University while writing on the material culture of the Ottoman elite in the 18th century. After she served as a research fellow at the Research Center for […]

Dr. Liora Sion is a sociologist who specialized in peacekeeping, peacebuilding, gender and ethnicity. She got her PhD from Amsterdam School for Social Research and was a postdoctoral fellow at Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University, and the Sociology Department at Northwestern University. She was a lecturer at the University of Nottingham. Her forthcoming […]

Dr. Or Avi-Guy is a research associate at the Forum for Regional Thinking and a teaching assistant at the interdisciplinary center in Herzliya and Netanya Academic College, in the fields of international law and conflict resolution. Her main research interests are ethnic conflicts, reconciliation processes and peacebuilding and transitional justice. Her doctoral thesis focused on […]

Dr. Amer Dahamshy is a research associate at the Forum for Regional Thinking and a researcher at The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace in the Hebrew university of Jerusalem. His research focuses on examining the connection between place and identity in the Arab-Palestinian culture, place names, local legends, literature and […]

Kobi Levi is a Chinese-Hebrew literature translator, who has lived eight of the past fifteen years in China. His research in the Forum for Regional Thinking focuses on the political and social path China is taking today, and how the “Chinese Model” might affect trends and developments in other parts of the world. Contact: [email protected] […]