Shaul Mishal
Shaul Mishal is a professor at the Inter Disciplinary Center (IDC) in Hertzlia and the Head of the Middle East program in the School of Government at IDC, Brain Mulroney Professor of Government, at the school of Political Science, Government and International Affairs, Tel Aviv University. Mishal’s research focuses on societies and politics in the Middle East; political strategies; Islamic politics; Palestinian politics; Hamas, the Arab Spring and Islamic non state entities. He earned his PhD at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; has been a visiting Professor of Political Science at Yale University, a Visiting Scholar at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard; and a Senior Fellow at the Harvard School of Public health.
Mishal has published several books on topics relating to the Palestinian national movement, the Palestinian Islam, The political economy of Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), Israeli-Arab political culture and the Shiite leadership. These include: West Bank/East Bank: The Palestinians in Jordan, 1949-1967 (Yale University Press), The PLO under Arafat: Between Gun and Olive Branch (Yale University Press), Speaking Stones: Communiques from the Intifada Underground (with Reuven Aharoni) (Syracuse University Press), The Palestinian Hamas: Vision, Violence and Coexistence (with Avraham Sela) (Columbia University Press), Investment in Peace: The Politics of Economic Cooperation Between Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians (with R. Kuperman, D. Boas) (Sussex Academic Press) and Understanding Shiite Leadership: The Art of Middle Ground in Iran and Lebanon (with Ori Goldberg) (Cambridge University Press, 2014). In addition, Professor Mishal founded and directed the Center for Israeli Arab Studies, which focuses on Arab society and culture in Israel.
Mishal will teach ‘Middle East Politics’ and ‘Islam and Nationalism in the Arab Spring’, during the fall semester of 2017. These courses introduce students to the critical social and political current Middle East inter and intra state issues.
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