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ACIS Staff 

Prof. Meir Litvak (PhD, Harvard University)

 

ACIS Director (2010-)

• Phone: +972-3-6409510
• 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. Emeritus David Menashri (PhD, TAU) 

ACIS Founding Director

• Phone: +972-3-6409510
• 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.

 

 Prof. David Yerushalmi (PhD, Columbia University)

 

ACIS Senior Fellow 

• Phone: +972-3-6407299
• E-mail: d.yeroush@gmail.com
• Academic Interests: history of Iranian Jewry, Persian language

 

Prof. Uzi Rabi (PhD, TAU)

 

ACIS Senior Fellow 

• Phone: +972-3-6409450
• 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»»

 

Nugzar Ter-Oganov (PhD, The Georgian University)

 

ACIS Research Fellow 

• Phone: +972-3-6407299
• Academic Interests: Iran, Russia

 

Liora Hendelman-Baavur (Phd, TAU)

 

ACIS Research Fellow

• Phone: +972-3-6407404
• E-mail: hendelma@post.tau.ac.il
• Academic Interests: history of Iranian journalism, gender studies, Iranian popular culture, and civil society and the new media in the Islamic Republic»»

 

 

Elisheva Machlis (Phd, Cambridge University)

ACIS Research Fellow

• Phone: +972-3-6405822
• E-mail: machlise@post.tau.ac.il
• modern trends within Shi‘i thought beginning in the first half of the twentieth century, looking into the unique scholarship produced in the Shi‘i Arab world and its relationship with Islamic revolutionary thought in Iran»»

 

Doris Klein-Naor

ACIS Administrative Assistant

• Phone: +972-3-6409510
• E-mail: DorisN@tauex.tau.ac.il

 

Raz Zimmt, PhD

• E-mail: rzimmt@gmail.com
• Research interest: Modern Political History of Iran and contemporary Iranian politics and society

 

Brandon Friedman

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Email: b.bfried@gmail.com
• Research interest: Arab-Iranian relations, contemporary political history of the Arabian/Persian Gulf, political biography

 

Doron Itzchakov, PhD

 

 

 

 

 

 

• E-mail: dorongym@gmail.com
• Research interest: Iran-Israel Relations during the Pahlavi era and Iran Foreign Relations

 

Chelsi Mueller

 

 

 

 

 

 

• E-mail: chelsimueller@yahoo.com
• Research interests: Arab-Iranian relations in the Persian Gulf; Iranian nationalism; Iran in the Reza Shah Period; history of the Arab shaykhdoms; tribe and state in the Persian Gulf

 

Annie Tracy Samuel

• E-mail: annetracy@gmail.com
• Iranian security and foreign policy, civil-military relations, the role of Islam in military and foreign policy, and U.S. policy in the Middle East

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Menachem Merhavy

• E-mail: mmenachem@hotmail.com
• Regional functions of national mythmaking in Iran, Egypt and Iraq

  

 Sivan Balslev

• E-mail:  sivan.blass@gmail.com
• Iranian history of the late Qajar and early Pahlavi period, masculinity studies

 

Liad Porat

 

 

 

 

 

 

TAU Postdoctoral Fellow at the ACIS 2009-2010

• E-mail: liadpor@gmail.com
• Research interest: modern Sunni-Islamic movements in the Middle East