Prof. Elie Podeh

Board Member

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Elie Podeh is Professor in the Department of Islamic and Middle East Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He serves as the President of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Association of Israel (MEISAI). Board Member of Mitvim – The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies. Main fields of interests: Egypt, inter-Arab relations, the Arab-Israeli conflict; education and culture in the Middle. Served as the Head of Islamic and ME Department (2004-2009) and editor of Hamizrah Hehadash (New East, 2000-2008). He has published and edited twelve books and more than seventy academic articles in English, Hebrew and Arabic. His recent publications: Multiple Alterities: Views of Others in Middle Eastern Textbooks (edited with Samira Alayan, London, 2018); The Third Way: Protest and Revolution in the Middle East (edited with Onn Winckler, Jerusalem, 2017) [Hebrew]; Chances for Peace: Missed Opportunities in the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Austin, 2015); The Politics of National Celebrations in the Arab Middle East (Cambridge, 2011).