Eyal Zisser

Professor Eyal Zisser is the head of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History and a senior research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center, both at Tel Aviv University. Zisser writes extensively on the history and modern politics of Syria and Lebanon, Hizballah, Syrian support of Palestinian terrorist factions, Iranian involvement in anti-Israeli terror, and the overall Arab-Israeli conflict. Among his recent publications:  “Assad’s Syria at a Crossroads” (Tel Aviv, 1999); “Assad’s Legacy – Syria in Transition” (New York, 2000); “Lebanon: the Challenge of Independence” (London, 2000); “Faces of Syria” (Tel Aviv, 2003); “Commanding Syria, Bashsar al-Asad’s First years in Power” (London, 2006).

Zisser received his PhD from Tel Aviv University. His Ph.D thesis was completed under the instruction of Prof. Itamar Rabinovich. He was a visiting professor in Cornell University and a visiting research fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.