Eyal Zisser

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Professor Eyal Zisser is the Vice Rector of Tel Aviv University and the holder of The Yona and Dina Ettinger Chair in Contemporary History of the Middle East.

Education

  • 1982-1985 - Tel Aviv University Middle Eastern History and BA 1985 Arabic Language and Literature (Summa cum laude)
  • 1985-1988 - Tel Aviv University Middle Eastern History MA 1988 (Magna cum laude)
  • Master’s Thesis: “The Arab-Israeli Struggle Over the Jordan Waters and the Inter-Arab System.”
  • 1989-1992 - Tel Aviv University Middle Eastern History PHD 1992
  • Doctoral Dissertation: The Challenge of Independence: Lebanon under Bishara al-Khuri, 1943-1952.[1]

Career

  • 1992, Tel Aviv University The Moshe Dayan Center for Research Fellow Middle Eastern and African Studies
  • 1993, Tel Aviv University Middle Eastern and African History, lecturer
  • 1995-1996, Cornell University Near Eastern Studies, Visiting Assistant Professor
  • 1996-1997, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Visiting Research Fellow
  • 1998, Tel Aviv University, Middle Eastern and African History, Senior Lecturer
  • 2002,Tel Aviv University, Middle Eastern and African History, Associate Professor
  • 2006, Tel Aviv University, Middle Eastern and African History, Full Professor
  • 2004-2008, Chair, Department of Middle Eastern and African History , Tel Aviv University
  • 2007- 2010, Director, the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University
  • 2010- 2015, Dean, Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University[1]

Publications

Books

  • Syria under Asad - At a Crossroads (Tel Aviv: HaKibutz Hameuhad, 1999) (in Hebrew).
  • Lebanon - The Challenge of Independence (London: I. B. Tauris, March 2000).
  • Asad’s Legacy, Syria in Transition (New York: New York University Press, 2000)
  • Faces of Syria: Regime, Society and State (Tel Aviv: HaKibutz Hameuhad, 2003) (in Hebrew).
  • In the Name of the Father, Bashar al-Asad's First Years in Power (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv: University Press, 2004 ) (in Hebrew)
  • In the Name of the Father, Bashar al-Asad's First Years in Power (Cairo: Madbuli Publishing House, 2005) (in Arabic).
  • Commanding Syria, Bashar al-Asad's in Power (London: I. B. Tauris Academic Press, 2006).
  • Lebanon: the Bleeding Cedar, from the Civil War to the Second Lebanon War (Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2009) (in Hebrew).
  • Syria: Protest, Revolution, Civil War (Tel Aviv University: The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle).

Affiliations

Membership in Scientific Associations

  • The Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
  • Syrian Studies Association
  • Association for Israel Studies
  • The Middle East and Islamic studies association of Israel (Meisai)
  • The Israeli Historical association[1]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Eyal Zisser profile, Tel Aviv University. Last accessed 4 October 2016.
  2. Board of Directors, Institute for National Security Studies. Last accessed 04 October 2016.
  3. Board of Governors, Tel Aviv University. Last accessed 04 October 2016.