Researchers

Academic Research is a central focus at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace. Each year, over 70 researchers fill the halls of Truman studying the Middle East and different aspects of the Israeli Palestinian conflict. The Truman Institute supports not only veteran academics well known in their fields, but students working on their doctoral dissertation, and post-doctoral students working on new and innovative projects. Through the varied interests of our fellows, much of the work done here is multidisciplinary and even stretches across the traditional barriers of countries and regions to initiate and maintain contacts with other universities, similar institutes as well as individuals. See below a partial list of Truman fellows and researchers.

Research Fellows

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Ola Nabwani

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Male participation in household duties, work family integration, working from home, Arab women's careers

"Between Employment and Family Life in the Arab and Jewish Populations of Israel"

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Mr. Gideon Remez

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: USSR/Russia in Middle East, USSR/Russia and Arab-Israeli Conflict, Cold War

Areas of Expertise: USSR/Russia in Middle East, USSR/Russia and Arab-Israeli Conflict, Cold War

 

Avraham Sela

Prof. Avraham Sela

Research Fellow
Former Academic Committee Chairman

Former Academic Committee Chairman
Areas of Expertise: Arab-Israeli war 1948; Narratives and apology in Israeli-Palestinian conflict; foreign fighters in comparative historical perspective; Palestinian Hamas

Fahima Abbas

Dr. Fahima Abbas

Research Fellow

Areas of Expertise: Arab middle-class ,strategies for integration in urban spaces such as metropolitan structures and divided cities, spatial inequality, migration and commuting


 

Research Abstract

Tajread Keadan

Dr. Tajread Keadan

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Islamic studies, gender and Muslim law studies, multiculturalism
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Areas of Expertise: Islamic studies, gender and Muslim law studies, multiculturalism

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Dr. Laila Abed Rabho

Research Fellow

Areas of Expertise: Islam, gender, women rights, Palestine, history , justice 

Research Abstract

"Agents of Social and Gendered Change?: The Role of Women Journalists in Palestinian Society in East Jerusalem"

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Dr. Dikla Cohen

Research Fellow

The Palestinian Society in between Reconciliation and segregation: Readings in the Reconciliation Agreements (Itifaqat al-Sulh)

 (2006-2016) Dikla Cohen / The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace 

 

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Dr. Silvina Schammah- Gesser

Research Fellow

Areas of Expertise: Visual culture of civil wars, Ethnic minorities and national identity in Latin America, Cultural production of Arab migrants to Latin America, Jewish narratives and Jewish presence in the Iberian Pensinsula

 

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Dr. Isabella Ginor

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: USSR/Russia in Middle East, USSR/Russia and Arab-Israeli Conflict, Cold War
Areas of Expertise: USSR/Russia in Middle East, USSR/Russia and Arab-Israeli Conflict, Cold War

 

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Prof. Amnon Cohen

Research Fellow
Former Academic Director
Truman building, room 309

Research Group Abstract:

"Iraq: A Focal Point of Local, Regional and International Crisis"

Naomi Chazan

Prof. Naomi Chazan

Research Fellow
Former Academic Director

Research Abstract:

"Democratization, De-democratization and Conflict Resolution: A Comparative Analysis of Israel and Africa"

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Dr. Ronni Shaked

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Hamas, Palestinian society, Palestinian authority, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinian  terrorism, ethos of conflict of the Palestinian society,  holy places in conflict
Truman Building, Room 208

Henriette Dahan-Kalev

Dr. Henriette Dahan-Kalev

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Democracy and Feminism in Israel, Political History of Mizrahim, Peace Activists in Israel-Palestine Conflict, Global climate crisis and ecofeminism

Areas of Expertise: Democracy and Feminism in Israel, Political History of Mizrahim, Peace Activists in Israel-Palestine Conflict, Global climate crisis and ecofeminism

 

Research Abstract

Amit Sheniak

Dr. Amit Sheniak

Research Fellow

Areas of Expertise: Science technology and society (STS), innovation processes of emerging/disruptive technologies, international relations and national security policies, cybersecurity

 

Moshe Maoz

Prof. Moshe Maoz

Research Fellow
Former Academic Director
Areas of Expertise: Islam, The Middle East,The Abraham Accords,Hamas, Syria, Temple mount, minorities in the Middle east, Israeli-Palestine conflict
Truman Building, Room 311

Areas of Expertise: Islam, The Middle East,The Abraham Accords,Hamas, Syria, Temple mount, minorities in the Middle east, Israeli-Palestine conflict

 

Research Abstract

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Dr. Chen Bram

Research Fellow

Areas of Expertise: Anthropology of ethnicity and collective identity, migration studies, intergroup relations, Israeli 'mixed' cities, central Eurasia

 

Research Abstract

Menahem Merhavy

Dr. Menahem Merhavy

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise:Iran, Islamic Republic, nationalism, Islamic movements

Areas of Expertise:Iran, Islamic Republic, nationalism, Islamic movements

Research Abstract

National Symbols in Modern Iran: Identity, Persian Ethnicity, and Collective Memory

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Dr. Batia Siebzehner

Research Fellow

Areas of Expertise: Religious transformation in Latin America, conversion to Islam, religious "return" in Judaism

 

Research Abstract

"Educational Discourse in the Age of Globalization in Latin America"

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Dr. Orna Cohen

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Arab citizens of Israel, Jewish-Arab relations in Israel, Arab politicians in Israel
Truman building, room 302

Areas of Expertise: Arab citizens of Israel, Jewish-Arab relations in Israel, Arab politicians in Israel


Research Abstract

"Arab Leadership in Israel as a Bridge to the Arab World"

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Dr. Giora Eliraz

Research Fellow

Areas of Expertise: Indonesia,  Malaysia,  foreign  policy, democracy, radicalization, political culture, Southeast Asia, Singapore

Major Research Interests 

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Dr. Yusri Hazran

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Modern Lebanon, modern Syria, Middle Eastern minorities, Druze in the Middle East, Shia and Arab society in Israel, Hamas

"What between Northern Iraq and Southern Sudan? Israel, Arabism, and the League of Minorities: A Reevaluation"

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Dr. Mauricio Dimant

Research Fellow
Latin American Studies, The Hebrew University

"Populism, Peace and Ethnic Minorities: The Political Leadership of Arab Descendants in Populist Parties and Their Role in Contexts of Violence in Latin America"

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Prof. Aziz Haidar

Research Fellow

Areas of Expertise: Palestinian Arab society in Israel (society, economy, politics) and Israeli society, the Arab-Palestinian middle class in Israel

Research Abstract

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Christian Cantor

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Iran nuclear, sanctions and regional security portfolios; counter proliferation; arms control and dissarmament; counter terrorism; cyber and arms exports.

Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellows

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Tom Divon

Doctoral Fellow
Areas of Expertise: User-platform interactions,creator culture, platform affordances, and user-generated content, socio-political subcultures,
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Paz Yaacov

Doctoral Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Urban identity, ethno-national tension, resilience in conflict, mixed cities in conflict
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Dr. Itschak Trachtingot

Postdoctoral Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Israeli-Arab conflict, ultra-Orthodox society in Israel, acculturation - psychology of groups, intercultural psychology
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Eli Adler

Topic: Using a multimethod approach (questionnaires, behavioral and neural measures) to examine political differences and assess the impact of psychological interventions aimed at promoting conflict resolution and depolarization.