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Asher Susser

Professor Asher Susser earned his PhD in Modern Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University (TAU) and is presently the Director for External Affairs of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies at TAU. He was the Director of the Center from 1989 to1995 and again from 2001 to 2007and has taught for over twenty-five years in the University's Department of Middle Eastern History. Professor Susser's research and teaching at TAU has focused on Modern Middle Eastern History, Religion and State in the Middle East and Arab-Israeli issues, with special reference to Jordan and the Palestinians. He has been a Fulbright Fellow, a visiting professor at Cornell University (1986-7), the University of Chicago (1990) and Brandeis University (1998, 2007-8), and a visiting fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (1987, 1996-7). His most recent articles include "Jordan: Preserving Domestic Order in a Setting of Regional Turmoil," (2008); "The Sunni-Shi'i Shift of the 21st Century," (Hebrew) (2008); "Jordan's Maze of Identities: Tribal, Jordanian, Palestinian and Islamic" (2008); "Israel, the Arabs and Palestine: Facing Crucial Decisions" (2006); and "Collective Identity, the Middle Eastern State and the Peace Process" (Hebrew) (2006). He is presently writing a new book on Jordan, Israel and the Palestinians and a smaller study on The Retreat of Secularism in the Middle East. In 1994 he was the only Israeli academic to accompany Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to his historic meeting with King Hussein of Jordan for the signing of the Washington Declaration. More recently, in 2005, he was one of 33 Israelis (academics, security experts and politicians) included in a book (Hebrew) of interview/essays on the pros and cons of Israel's disengagement, compiled by Ha'aretz columnist Ari Shavit. In 2006 Professor Susser was selected as TAU's Faculty of Humanities Outstanding Lecturer.

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