Elie Podeh

Born in 1959, Professor Elie Podeh is a Bamberger and Fuld Chair at the Department of Islamic and Middle East Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a senior research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace. He serves at present as the President of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Association of Israel (MEISAI). He is a board member of Mitvim – the Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies. His academic interest is the contemporary Middle East, and his particular fields of interests are Egypt; inter-Arab relations; the Arab-Israeli conflict; education and culture in the Middle East. He served as the Chair of Islamic and Middle East Department at the Hebrew University (2004-2009) and editor of Hamizrah Hehadash (New East, 2000-2008) – the Hebrew journal of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Association of Israel (MEISAI). He has published and edited ten books and more than sixty academic articles in English, Hebrew and Arabic. Among his publications: The Arab-Israeli Conflict in Israeli History Textbooks, 1948-2000 (2002); Rethinking Nasserism: Revolution and Historical Memory in Modern Egypt (2004); The Politics of National Celebrations in the Arab World (2011); Chances for Peace: Missed Opportunities in the Arab-Israeli Conflict (2015); and The Third Wave: Protest and Revolution in the Middle East (Hebrew, 2017). Prof. Podeh is a frequent commentator on Middle Eastern affairs in the Israeli and foreign media, publishing periodic articles in Haaretz and Jerusalem Post.