Lives in Jerusalem – Old City PhD in Humanities Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Dissertation: Pious Palestinian Women’s Religious and Political Roles in Al-Haram Al-Sharif. MA in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dissertation: Hizb at-tahrir al islami fi falasteen, al tarikhwal-idiologiyya (Islamic Hizb at-Tahrir, History and Ideology) BA History, Birzeit University, […]

Katie Wachsberger is an MA student at Ben Gurion University, where she is conducting research about literature, humanities, and the social sciences in the Arab University, focusing on the Gulf States. She has a BA from Columbia University where she wrote her thesis about Middle East Studies in the Israeli academy. Katie also works with […]

Moran Zaga is a Ph.D. student and a research fellow at the Forum for Regional Thinking (FORTH), focusing on borders in the Middle East and the geopolitics of the Arab gulf countries.

Elie Friedman (Ph.D.) is an adjunct lecturer at the School of Communication, Bar-Ilan University, and a visiting lecturer at the University of Maryland, Department of Israel Studies. He is the Director of the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Strategic Dialogue, Netanya Academic College, and an assoicate research at the Harry S. Truman Institute for the […]

Ella Aphek is a research fellow at the Forum for Regional Thinking (FORTH). She retired from the Foreign Ministry of Israel after 42 years of research on the Middle East and diplomatic service in Cairo, Paris, Ankara and Brussels (the mission to the EU).

Inbal Ben Yehuda is a researcher and social activist. She holds an MA degree from the Department of Middle East and African History at Tel Aviv University. She mainly focuses on the histories, politics and cultures of Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia. Contact: [email protected]

Sabina Abdulaev is a research associate at the Forum for Regional Thinking (FORTH), focusing on the “other” and “otherness” in the Centrist (Wassatiyah) discourse in Islam. She is a PhD candidate at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Contact: [email protected]