Senior Visiting Professor
David Menashri, is the Founding-Director of the Center for Iranian Studies, Incumbent of the Parviz and Pouran Nazarian Chair for Modern Iranian Studies, Senior Research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies and Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern and African History.
Prof. Menashri’s main field of academic research is history and politics of modern Iran, Central Asia, the Persian Gulf and history of education in the Muslim world. He has been a visiting Fulbright scholar at Princeton and Cornell University and, among others, a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago, Melbourne University, the University of Munich and Waseda (Tokyo) and Monash University (Melbourne). In the late 1970s he spent two years conducting research and field studies in Iranian universities on the eve of the Islamic Revolution.
He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards in Israel and abroad, including grants from Ford Foundation, Fulbright Foundation and Ben Gurion Foundation.
Menashri’s most recent publication is the edited volume (together with Liora Hendelman-Baavur), Iran: Anatomy of Revolution (2009, Hebrew). His other publications include: Post-Revolutionary Politics in Iran: Religion, Society and Power was published in 2001 (London, Frank Cass; second print in 2002). Iran after Khomeini: Revolutionary Ideology versus National Interests (1999, Hebrew); Revolution at A Crossroads: Iran’s Domestic Challenges and Regional Ambitions (1997); Iran: Between Islam and the West (1996, Hebrew); Education and the Making of Modern Iran (1992); Iran: A Decade of War and Revolution (1990); Iran in Revolution (1989, Hebrew). He is also the editor of: Religion and State in the Middle East (Hebrew, 2006); Central Asia Meets the Middle East (1998); Islamic Fundamentalism: A Challenge to Regional Stability (1993, Hebrew); and The Iranian Revolution and the Muslim World (1991). He is the author of numerous articles and papers on Iran and the Middle East. Between 1978 and 1999 he wrote all the 22 annual chapters on Iran in the Moshe Dayan’s yearly The Middle East Contemporary Survey. From 1994 he wrote the annual surveys on Iran in the Antisemitism Worldwide, published by Tel Aviv University’s Project for the Study of Antisemitism.