The Department of Middle East Studies Emeritus Faculty

Name	Research & Teaching Areas	Email
Prof. Aref Abu Rabia	Traditional and alternative medicine in the Middle East, Islamic medical law and medical ethics, family customs, violence toward and abuse of children, holy saints, cosmopolitanism, and Sufism	arefabu@gmail.com
Dr. Iris Agmon	The role of women and the family in Ottoman legal culture, divorce laws in Islamic history, and Shari’a courts	iris.agmon@gmail.com
Prof. Benny Morris	The Arab-Israeli and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts, the genocide of Christians in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey	morrisbenny8@gmail.com
Prof. Meir Zamir	French, British, and Israeli intelligence in the Middle East, Lebanon under the French Mandate, cultural differences as hindrances to Israeli-Palestinian peace agreements	mzamir@bgu.ac.il
Prof. Dror Zeevi	Political, social, and cultural history of the Middle East in the early-modern and modern period; The Ottoman Empire and the Levant; slavery; sexuality in Islamic cultures; the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic; the genocide of the Armenians, Greeks, and Assyrians in Turkey in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.	zeevi@bgu.ac.il