Shai Feldman is the Raymond Frankel Chair on Israeli Politics and Society at Brandeis University’s Crown Center for Middle East Studies. In September 2022, Shai Feldman returned to the Crown Center and the Politics Department at Brandeis University after a three-year leave during which he served as President of Sapir College in Sha’ar Hanegev, Israel, less than two miles from the Gaza Strip.
From 2005 to 2019, Feldman was the founder and Crown Family Director of the Crown Center and professor of politics at Brandeis University. For some 22 years, from 1997 to 2019, he was also a member of the board of directors of Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. In 2001–03, Feldman served as a member of the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters. From 1997 to 2005, he served as head of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University. Shai was a senior research associate at the Jaffee Center since its establishment in late 1977. His morst recent book is Arabs and Israelis: Conflict and Peacemaking in the Middle East, with Abdel Monem Said Aly and Khalil Shikaki (first edition, London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013; second edition, London: Boomsbury, 2022).
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Member of the Board, Belfer Center
