Staff

Dr. Liora Hendelman-Baavur (Phd, TAU)

Hendelman

ACIS Director (2019-)

Phone: +972-3-6406440
E-mail: hendelma@tauex.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

Prof. Meir Litvak (PhD, Harvard University 1991)

Meir

ACIS Director (2010-2019)

A senior research associate at the center and professor at the Department of Middle Eastern History at TAU.

Most recent book: Know Thy Enemy: Evolving Attitudes towards "Others" in Modern Shiʻi Thought and Practice (Brill, 2021), https://brill.com/view/title/58891?rskey=Qbfil2&result=1

Phone: +972-3-6407404
E-mail: litvak@tauex.tau.ac.il
Main field of research: The link between religion and politics in Shi`ism and modern Iranian history.

Dr. Miriam Nissimov (PhD, TAU)

ACIS Senior Fellow, Coordinator of the research Program for Iranian Jews in Israel

Phone: +972-3-6406444
E-mail: nissimovmiriam@gmail.com

Dr. Rachel Kantz Feder (PhD, TAU)

A research associate at the Alliance Center for Iranian Studies and a lecturer at Tel Aviv University. She is a scholar of Shi‘i history and modern ideologies and movements in the Middle East.

Phone: +972-3-6405762
E-mail: rachelkantz@gmail.com
Main field of research: The histories of modern Shi'ism, leftist movements and modern psychology in the Middle East, and modern Iraq.

Dr. Raz Zimmt (PhD, TAU)

A research associate at the Alliance Center for Iranian Studies and the Institute for National Security in Tel Aviv University

Phone:
E-mail: rzimmt@gmail.com
Main field of research: Modern history of Iran, state, society and foreign relations of the Islamic Republic.
His recent book "Iran from within" is expected to be published (in Hebrew) by Resling academic publishing house.

Prof. Emeritus David Menashri (PhD, TAU)

Menashri

ACIS Founding Director ( 2005-2010)

Phone: +972-3-6409510
E-mail: menashri@tauex.tau.ac.il
Academic Interests: modern Iran, political Islam (mainly Shiah Islam), Central Asia, Persian Gulf, education in the Middle East.

Prof. Emeritus David Yerushalmi (PhD, Columbia University)

Yeroushalmi

ACIS Senior Fellow

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

Administrative

Mrs. Doris Klein-Marom

ACIS Administrative Assistant

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

ACIS Junior Research Fellows

Kevjn Lim (MA)

Steven Terner (MA)

Sharona Mazalian-Levy (MA)

Past ACIS Fellows & Affiliates

Prof. Uzi Rabi (PhD, TAU)

Rabi

Phone: +972-3-6409450
E-mail: urabi@tauex.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»»

Dr. Nugzar Ter-Oganov (PhD, The Georgian University)

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Academic Interests: Iran, Russia

Dr. Elisheva Machlis (Phd, Cambridge University)

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E-mail: machlise@tauex.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»»

Dr. Brandon Friedman

Brandon

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

Dr. Doron Itzchakov

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

Dr. 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

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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

Dr. Menachem Merhavy