Faculty

Yakub Halabi (University of Haifa, Western Galilee College) - 2021 - 

As a past visiting researcher at the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies (2014-15), Dr. Halabi edited a collection of essays on Democratic Peace Across the Middle East: Islam and Political Modernisation, subsequently published by I B Tauris in 2016. His current research interests include minority rights, with emphasis on the rights of the Druze and Yezidi minorities in various Middle Eastern countries. his recent publications include: 

• “Reforming the Arab-Islamic world: Economic, political and religious reforms since 1990” Middle East Quarterly, (Forthcoming) 
• Tiny Religious Minorities and Minority Group Rights in international politics. Social Identities. 2020: 1-17. 
• “Minority Politics and the Creation of Inter-subjective-Based Hierarchy: The Case of the Druze Minority and its Struggle for Survival/Autonomy” Nations and Nationalism. Vol. 24(4) 2018: 977-997.  
•  “Kant or Can’t: Is the Israeli democracy a hindrance to peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority?” International Studies, Vol. 53(2) 2017: 136-152. 
• “Democracy, Clan Politics and Modernization: The Case of the Arab Citizens in Israel” Israel Studies. 19(1): 2014.

Lihi Lahat (2019-   ) is a senior lecturer at Sapir Academic College in the Department of Administration and Public Policy and is an Affiliate Associate Professor of the Institute.

For more information about Dr. Lahat .

During her time as an Affiliate Associate Professor at the Institute, she has published:

• Thoughts about time in times of quarantine, April 2020
• Emotional well-being among people employees: A comparative perspective, co-authored with Dganit Ofek, July 2020

Amir Locker-Biletzki, (2017-18 and 2019-21 ) has been affiliated with the Institute after he completed his PostDoctoral Fellowship.  He completed his book, Holidays of the Revolution: Communist Identity in Israel, 1919-1965 and has published a number of articles with the help of his research at the Institute.  For additional information, please see his details on the PostDoctoral Fellows page.   

During his time as an Affiliate at the Institute, he has published:

• "The Settler, the Native and the Communist: Nationalism, Colonialism and Imperialism in Moshe Sneh’s and Emil Touma’s Ideology, 1953-1984," in Jewish Radicalisms: Historical Perspectives on a Phenomenon of Global Modernity Frank Jacob and Sebastian Kunze, ed. (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 129-153.
• "Class, Capital and Colonies in India and Palestine/Israel" CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 21 (2019): 2-12.