Zeina Shihabi specializes in the study of medical discourse in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic. She lectures on Turkish at the Hebrew University and serves as a TA in Arabic at the Shalem Academic Center. Shihabi has a BA in Arabic Language and Literature and in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, as well as an MA from the Hebrew University. Her thesis is titled "Modernity and Development in the Medical Discourse in the Ottoman Press under the Rule of Sultan Abdelhamid II (1876-1909) through the Journal Truti Funoon. Shihabi intends to proceed to doctoral studies focused on the impact of the war in Syria on Syrian refugees in Turkey, examining the social and medical aspects of refugeehood.