Dr. Soli Shahvar

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Dr. Eran Segal

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Dr. Eran Segal is a researcher at the Ezri Center for Iran & Persian Gulf Studies, the University of Haifa, and he teaches at the University of Haifa, the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Yezreel Valley College. He has published several articles on the history, politics and society of the Arabian States of the Persian Gulf, among them is "Rulers and Merchants in Pre-Oil Kuwait: The Significance of Palm Dates," British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 41, no. 2 (April 2014).

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Dr. Moran Zaga

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Moran Zaga is a research fellow at Ezri Center for Iran & Persian Gulf Studies. She is a PhD student and a lecturer in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Haifa. Her main research interests include international boundaries and geopolitics of the Middle East, focusing on the Arab Gulf Countries. Moran’s dissertation deals with the significance of boundaries in the history of the Arab World. Moran is also a research fellow at the Forum for Regional Thinking and a policy fellow at Mitvim - The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies.

Education

2018               PhD student in Geography, University of Haifa.

2012               MA (Magna cum Laude) in Geography, Tel Aviv University.  

2007               BA in Geography and History of the Middle East, Tel Aviv University.

Publications:

Zaga M. and Zeidel R. (forthcoming 2018). “Characterizing the language boundaries of the Arab Middle East and North Africa: A geolinguistic analysis”. In Stanley D. Brunn and Roland Kehrein, Handbook of the Changing World Language Map. Springer.

Dr. Glen Segell

 

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Dr. Glen Segell has an affinity to strategic affairs having and continuing to research and write upon the sub-fields of intelligence, regional and international security, military history, civil-military relations, defense industrial matters, communications, and geo-politics.

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Mr. Samuel Willner

Mr. Samuel Willner

SAM2018Research Interests: Middle East economic history, Energy security, Saudi Arabia, Oil policy

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Mr. Samuel Willner is a Research Fellow at the Ezri Center for Iran & Persian Gulf Studies specializing in the Middle Eastern history and Saudi Arabia, energy security and strategy, and environmental economics. Samuel comes from Finland where he did his Master of Science degree in Economics. He is currently working on his PhD project at the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, the University of Haifa.

Education:

PhD Candidate

2015-

Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Haifa

M.Sc. in Economics and Business Administration

2007-2008

Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland

B.Sc. in Economics and Business Administration

2003-2007

Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland

Publications:

Willner, Samuel. “The 1975 Congressional Feasibility Study on ‘Oil Fields as Military Objectives’: U.S.–Saudi Arabian relations and the repercussions of the 1973 Oil Crisis”, The Journal of the Middle East and Africa. 2018, 9:2, 121-136.

Willner, Samuel. “Maritime navigation, energy security, and peace dividend: Exploring the historic developments of the Dead Sea conveyance project”, The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, 2017, 8:1, 113-127.

Willner, Samuel, Clive Lipchin and Zvika Aloni, “Salt storms, sinkholes and major economic losses: Can the deteriorating Dead Sea be saved from the looming eco crisis?” Negev, Dead Sea and Arava Studies, 2015, 7:2, 1-11.

Willner, Samuel, "Hydropower and pumped storage in Israel – The energy security aspect of the Med-Dead project", Negev, Dead Sea and Arava Studies, 2014, 6, 90-98.

Willner, Samuel, Clive Lipchin, Shira Kronich, Tal Amiel, Nathan Hartshorne and Shae Selix, A Pre-Feasibility Study on Water Conveyance Routes to the Dead Sea, Arava Institute for Environmental Studies 2013.