Senior Faculty
Dr. Maha El-Taji Daghash
Ph.D. Interdisciplinary Program in Near and Middle Eastern Studies,
University of Washington
LL. M. International Human Rights Law,
Center for Civil and Human Rights, Notre Dame University
J.D. Seattle University School of Law
B.A. Business Administration, University of Washington
Dr. El-Taji's doctoral studies focussed on Comparative Politics, Law and Society and Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict. Her dissertation explored Arab Local Government in Israel and the influence of the Hamula (clan social system). Her post-doctoral research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem examined the relationship between the Palestinian-Arab citizens of Israel and the Israeli police.
Dr. Moshe Elad
PhD Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel Studies Department, Haifa University
MA Public Administration, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Wexner Foundation Fellow
BA Education, Haifa University
BA History of the Middle East, Haifa University
Dr Moshe Elad is a Lecturer at Western Galilee College in the Political Sciences and History of the Middle East departments. He was Projects Coordinator (2004 – 2011) at the Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) . Dr. Elad specializes in the fields of Israeli-Palestinian Dispute and in Israeli National Security. He is a Reserve Colonel in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), having retired after almost three decades of active service, mostly in the West Bank and Lebanon. He served as the former Head of the Regional Security Committee (RSC) - Coordinator to the Palestinian Authority and played an active role in implementing the Oslo Israeli-Palestinian Peace Accord in the West Bank (1995 – 1998). Most recently, Dr. Elad has published two books, one entitled “The Core Issues of the Israeli-Palestinian Dispute” (Hebrew, Pardes publisher, 476 Pp.), the other “The Israeli Administration in the West Bank in the First Decade 1967 – 1976” (Hebrew, Pardes Publisher, 526 Pp.).
Dr. Yaron Friedman
PhD Middle East Studies, Sorbonne, Paris
MA History of Islam, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
BA Arabic Language and Literature, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Yaron Friedman lectures in Middle Eastern Studies and Arabic at the Technion, Haifa and Univerity of Haifa. He specialises in Shī‛ism and is the author of the monograph “The Nusayrī-‘Alawīs: An Introduction to the Religion, History and Identity of the Leading Minority in Syria“(Leiden: Brill, 2009). Dr. Friedman has published articles in Studia Islamica, Der Islam, Le Museon and entries in Encyclopaedia Iranica and Encyclopaedia of Islam.
Dr. Sapir Handelman
PhD Tel Aviv University
Dissertation: "The Ethical Limits of Manipulation from a Liberal Perspective”
MA Tel Aviv University
Masters’ Thesis: “Manipulation: Characteristic and Demarcation”
BSc Ben-Gurion University
Dr. Sapir Handelman is the recipient of the 2010 Peter Becker Award for Peace and Conflict Studies. She is a Lentz Fellow in Peace and Conflict Resolution Research and a visiting Professor at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at Wayne State University, Detroit and the University of Missouri, St. Louis. She serves as an associate at Harvard University and is a Post-Doctoral Fellow of Harvard University and the Walter Eucken institute, Freiburg, Germany. Dr. Handelman is a visiting scholar at the German Institute for Middle East Studies, Hamburg, Germany. She currently serves on the Editorial board of Behavioural Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, and is the conductor and facilitator of many workshops and lectures.
Ms. Hiba I Husseini, JD
Juris Doctor, Georgetown University
MA Political Science, George Washington University
MSc Corporate Finance, University of Sorbonne
BA Political Science, University of Tennessee
Ms. Hibal Husseini chairs the Legal Committee to Final Status Negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis. She is currently a managing partner of Husseini and Husseini, a West Bank-based law firm serving a large domestic and international client base on a wide range of business matters. She practiced law in Washington, DC. prior to returning to Palestine and has served as legal advisor to the peace process negotiations since 1994. Ms. Husseini lectures in Palestine and abroad. She has participated in a large number of local and international conferences and written widely on business law, rule of law and economic development. She serves on the boards of various educational, professional, cultural, business and non-profit organisations and is a member of the Palestinian Bar Association's International Committee. Ms. Husseini has served as the Vice Chair of the Palestine Securities Exchange from 1998- 2005 and is a founding member of Al-Mustakbal Foundation, a non-partisan organisation aimed at promoting economic development and rule of law in Palestine.
