Prof. Elie Podeh

Board Member

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Elie Podeh is Bamberger and Fuld Professor in the History of the Muslim Peoples in the Department of Islamic and Middle East Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He served as the Department Chair during the years 2004-2009, and President of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Association of Israel (MEISAI) during the years 2016-2022. Since 2011 he is Board Member of Mitvim – The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies. He has published and edited sixteen books and more than eighty academic articles in English, Hebrew and Arabic. His recent book publications: Chances for Peace: Missed Opportunities in the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Austin: University Press of Texas, 2016); and Israel’s Secret Relations with States and Minorities in the Middle East, 1948-2020 (Hebrew, Am Oved, 2022; and English forthcoming in Indiana University Press).