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#PeerTalks with Prof. Eyal Zisser on "Syria"  

Prof. Eyal Zisser is the Vice-Rector of Tel Aviv University and the Yona and Dina Ettinger Chairholder in Contemporary History of the Middle East. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities 2010-2015, the Director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies 2007-2010, and the Head of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History. Prof. Zisser wrote extensively on the history and the modern politics of Syria and Lebanon and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Among his books:  Assad’s Syria at a Crossroads (Tel Aviv, 1999); Asad’s Legacy – Syria in Transition (New York, 2000); Lebanon: the Challenge of Independence (London, 2000); Faces of Syria (Tel Aviv, 2003) Commanding Syria, Bashar al-Asad’s First years in Power (London, 2006); The Bleeding Cedar (Tel Aviv, 2009), Syria: Protest, Revolution, Civil War (Tel Aviv, 2014).  

Prof. Zisser received his Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University. He was a visiting professor at Cornell University and a visiting research fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.  

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