He is currently the chairperson of the Library Authority at the Hebrew University. His recent publications include Holy War and Rapprochement: Studies in the Relations between the Mamluk Sultanate and the Mongol Ilkhanate (1260-1335) (Brepols, 2013); co-edited with Michal Biran: Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change: The Mongols and Their Eurasian Predecessors (University of Hawaii Press, 2015); and co-edited with Christoph Cluse: Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean, 11th to 15th Centuries, forthcoming at Brepols.

Dr. Balslev is interested in social, cultural, and gender history of modern Iran. Her articles have been published in Gender & History and in the British Journal of Middle East Studies. She also published two Hebrew translations of poet Forough Farrokhzad's books Another Birth and Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season.

She has published extensively on Mongol and pre-Mongol Central Asia; the Mongol Empire; nomadism; and cross-cultural contacts between China and the Islamic world. Her books include Qaidu and the Rise of the Independent Mongol State in Central Asia (Curzon, 1997), The Empire of the Qara Khitai in Eurasian History: Between China and the Islamic World (Cambridge University Press, 2005, 2008) and Chinggis Khan (Oxford: OneWorld Publications, 2007). She has co-edited (with Reuven Amitai) Mongols, Turks and Others: Eurasian Nomads and the Sedentary World (Leiden: Brill, 2005) and Eurasian Nomads As Agents of Cultural Change (Honolulu: Hawaii University Press, 2015). Together with Hodong Kim she is now editing The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire (2 volumes) as well as working on a book on The Cultural History of Ilkhanid Baghdad. She is also co-editing a volume on Universality and its Limits: Spatial Dimensions of Eurasian Empires (to be published by Cambridge University Press).

He is the head of the Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism at the Hebrew University and was appointed visiting professor at New York University (2014) and at Dartmouth College (2016). Among his books: Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929 (Brandeis University Press, 2016); Good Arabs: The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs (University of California Press, 2011).

Her Ph.D. and monograph on the Road Inns in Greater Syria are part of her ongoing research on road-archaeology. Her topics of urbanism and road-archaeology also offer her the opportunity to dwell on the interaction between religions, in which context she has published on the minarets of Palestine and their symbolism (especially while dealing Ramla’s White Mosque, but also with Tiberias), as well as on the erection of the mosque of Tiberias in the vicinity of the existing monumental church. Cytryn-Silverman also specializes in the pottery of the Islamic period.

Recently he has been researching the wall paintings of the Umayyad Palace in Jericho, trying to reconstruct a series of paintings there that have never been properly published since the excavations done under the British Mandate. Another recent research project concerns Lod/Ludd, where local excavations have been taking place for years. In this project, he is trying to understand the city’s civic structure towards the end of the Ottoman period.

Dr. Da‘adli was a Buber Scholar from 2012 to 2015. In 2016, he received a fellowship from the Council of Higher Education to encourage young researchers who have been accepted to teach in Israel's universities.

Currently Mr. Efrati is studying towards a Ph.D. degree in the Dept. of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The subject of his thesis is "Scholars and Centers of Scholarship in Tiberias Capital of Jund al-Urdunn during the Early Islamic Period (634-1099)".

Ofer Efrati has appeared in the Hebrew University’s list of outstanding lecturers according to the students' teaching evaluation of academic staff, in every single since he began teaching 1992 up to the current year, 2016. He  is also the recipient of The Hebrew University’s Michael Milken Prize for long-standing excellence in teaching.

Deals with the history of ideas and politics in the Middle East in the 19th and 20th centuries from a comparative perspective, especially in relation to Western and Jewish thought, and with an emphasis on Islamic politics, an increasingly relevant field of scholarship today. His published work has dealt with topics such as ‘ulama, Sufism, fatwas, martyrdom, Islamic protest movements, liberal discourse, modern Egypt, and Palestinian politics.

Among his publications: Islam and Salvation in Palestine: The Islamic Jihad Movement (2001); Identity Politics in the Middle East: Liberal Thought and Islamic Challenge in Egypt (2007); Ulama, Politics and the Public Sphere (2010); Martyrdom in Modern Islam: Piety, Power and Politics (2014); Arab Liberal Thought in the Modern Age (2020)

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Jacobson completed her PhD at the Department of History at the University of Chicago. Before joining the Hebrew University she was the Academic Director of the Borders and Sovereignty theme (previously The Mediterranean Neighbors Unit) at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. She is the chief editor of the Journal of Levantine Studies (JLS) published at VLJI. She has been a junior research fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University; a lecturer at the Department of History at MIT; a visiting lecturer at the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University; and a lecturer at the International School at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya (IDC).

She is the author of Policing Egyptian Women: Sex, Law and Medicine in Egypt 1850-1882 (Syracuse University Press, 2011) and Global Women, Colonial Ports: Regulated Prostitution in the Interwar Middle East (SUNY press, 2016). She is also the coeditor, with Cyrus Schayegh and Avner Wishnitzer, of A Global Middle East: Mobility, Materiality and Culture in the Modern Age, 1880-1940 (IB Tauris, 2014); and co-editor, with Magaly Rodriguez and Davide Rodogno, of The League of Nations’ Work on Social Issues (UN Press, 2016).

Elie Podeh has published and edited twelve books and more than seventy articles in academic journals. Among his publications: The Arab-Israeli Conflict in Israeli History Textbooks, 1948-2000 (Bergin and Garvey, 2002); Rethinking Nasserism: Revolution and Historical Memory in Modern Egypt (University Press of Florida, 2004); The Politics of National Celebrations in the Arab World (Cambridge University Press, 2011); Chances for Peace: Missed Opportunities in the Arab-Israeli Conflict (University of Texas Press, 2015); The Third Wave: Protest and Revolution in the Middle East (2017, in Hebrew). At present, he serves as the President of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Association of Israel (MEISAI).

Prof. Shaham’s main fields of research are family law reform and its application in the shariʿa courts (especially in Egypt); the legal status of non-Muslims in modern Islamic societies; expert witnesses at the shariʿa courts; the modern discourse on the renewal of Islamic law. His main publications are: Family and the Courts in Modern Egypt (Brill, 1997); (editor); Law, Custom and Statute in the Muslim World: Studies in Honor of Aharon Layish (Brill, 2007); The Expert Witness in Islamic Courts: Medicine and Crafts in the Service of Law (University of Chicago Press, 2010) . He is currently working on a book-length study of the juristic theory and legal opinions of Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi.