HIGHER EDUCATION
1999 - 2000 : St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, Post-doctorate.
Advisor: Dr. Eugene Rogan.
1994 - 1999 : The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Ph.D. Subject of Ph.D. Thesis: “Marginal People in the Ottoman City: The Case of Thessaloniki during the Eighteenth Century.” Dissertation approved in June 1999.
Advisor: Prof. Haim Gerber.
July-august 1992 : Turkish language and civilization Summer School, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Turkey.
1990 - 1994 : The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
M.A. degree Magna Cum Laude. Subject of M.A. Thesis: “Jews and Christians at the Şeriat Court of Thessaloniki during the First Decade of the Nineteenth Century (1802-1807).” Advisor: Prof. Haim Gerber.
1987 - 1990 : The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
B.A. degree Magna Cum Laude.
APPOINTMENTS AT THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY
October 2014 - Present : Associate Professor, Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
February 2008 - October 2014 : Senior Lecturer for Turkish Studies, Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
July 2001 - February 2008 : Lecturer for Turkish Studies, Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS / TASKS AT THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY
2013 - 2015 : Director of the Academic Committee of the Hispania-Judaica Center and the Center of the Jews of Aleppo and its Region.
October 2004 - Present : Coordinator of the Forum of Turkish Studies at the Institute of Asian and African Studies.
October 2009 - October 2012 : Chair of the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies.
September 2006 - September 2009 : M.A. Advisor for the Islam and the Middle East program in the Rothberg International School.
SERVICE IN OTHER ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS
October 2015 - Present : Director of the Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East.
December 2005 - February 2006 : Visiting Fellow in the Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University.
September - November 2005; March - July 2006 : Visiting Fellow in the Department of History, Princeton University.
January - February 2003 : enseignant chercheur invité, École Pratique des Hautes Études – Section des Sciences Historiques et Philologiques, Paris.
2001-2003 : Vice-director of the Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East.
OTHER ACTIVITY
Member of a Ministry of Education committee to determine the study program in history for Arab secondary schools in Israel (2011-present).
External Reviewer, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, New Jersey, 2013-14, 2014-15.
Member of the Organizing Committee of the conference “From the Ottoman Empire to Nations States: Culture, Political and Social Transformations”, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 9 June 2015.
Member of the Organizing Committee of the conference “New Perspectives on World War I”, The Leonard Davis Institute for International relations, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 10-14 November 2014.
Member of the Organizing Committee of the conference “The Centenary of World War I: Global and Local Aspects”, The Zalman Shazar Center, Jerusalem, 24-25 June 2014.
Member of the advisory board of the conference “Not All Quite on the Ottoman Fronts: Neglected Perspectives on a Global War”, Istanbul, 9-12 April 2014.
Director (together with Prof. Anthony Molho and Dr. Paris Chronakis) of the conference “The Jews of Salonica in the Early Modern and Modern Periods”, Thessaloniki, 25-26 June 2012.
Member of the Organizing Committee of the conference “The Middle East in Transition: The 3rd Annual Conference”, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 10-11 January 2012.
Member of the Organizing Committee of the conference “A Post-Kemalist Turkey?”, The Van-Leer Institute, Jerusalem, 3-4 October 2011.
Director (together with Prof. Karl Kaser) of the workshop “Ottoman Legacies in the Contemporary Mediterranean: the Middle East and the Balkans Compared”, The Mediterranean Program, Eleventh Mediterranean Meeting, Robert Shuman Centre for Advanced Studies, the European University Institute, Florence and Montecatini Terme, 24-27 March 2010.
Member of the Organizing Committee of the conference “Ottoman Roots of Contemporary Realities: The Middle East and the Balkans Compared”, Jerusalem, 18-20 January 2009.
Member of the Academic Committee of the conference on “Centenary of the Young Turk Revolution (1908): The Young Turk Era as Experienced in Palestine”, Jerusalem, 2-3 July 2008.
Member of the Academic Committee of the conference on: “The Ottomans in Palestine and the Middle East – a conference in honor of Prof. Amnon Cohen”, Jerusalem, 8-9 June 2005.
Member of the Academic Committee of the conference on: “Society, Culture and Law in the Muslim World – a conference in honor of Prof. Miriam Hoexter”, Jerusalem, 15 May 2005.
Member of the Academic Committee of the international conference on: “The Turks and Palestine: A 1000 years of Relations”, Jerusalem, 22-24 June, 2004.
Membership in editorial advisory boards of the following periodicals: Eurasian Studies (2002-2006; Cambridge and Rome); Pe'amim (Jerusalem), South East European and Middle East Studies (Graz); Çingane Çalışmaları Dergisi/Journal of Gypsy Studies (Istanbul), International Review of Turkish Studies (Utrecht).
MEMBERSHIP IN A PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION
The Turkish Studies Association
The Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
The Middle East and Islamic Studies Association of Israel (MEISAI).