مركز موشيه ديان لدراسات الشرق الأوسط

The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (MDC)

الشعار الحادي	A non-partisan interdisciplinary research center devoted to the study of the contemporary Middle East and Africa.
سبقها	Reuven Shiloah Institute
التشكل	1966 (as the Reuven Shiloah Institute); 1983 (as the MDC)
المقر الرئيسي	Tel Aviv, Israel
Executive Director	Prof. Uzi Rabi
المنظمة الأم	Tel Aviv University
الموقع الإلكتروني	dayan.org

David Ben-Gurion addresses members of the Reuven Shiloah Institute. Date unknown.

The Arabic Press Archives at the MDC for Middle Eastern and African Studies

مركز موشيه ديان لدراسات الشرق الأوسط وأفريقيا (MDC) is an Israeli think tank based in Tel Aviv, Israel, focused on the contemporary study and analysis of the Middle East and Africa. The idea for the Center was originally proposed by Reuven Shiloah, who was the first Director of the Mossad. Following Shiloah's death, the Reuven Shiloah Institute was created, and existed independently for a brief time before becoming incorporated into Tel Aviv University in 1966. In 1983, the University established the Moshe Dayan Center, which combined the Shiloah Institute and other documentation units dealing with the Middle East. Its stated primary mission is to serve as a resource for decision makers and the public at large, both in Israel and internationally, though it differentiates itself from other similar organizations by refraining from recommending specific policies outright.

The MDC’s team of over thirty researchers comes from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, and collectively possesses a command of English, Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish, Kurdish, and Farsi. In the wake of the 2011 ‘Arab Spring,’ and the effective collapse of many Middle Eastern states, the MDC has been active in developing new interpretive frameworks for understanding the region’s complex dynamics.

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 أبرز العاملين

• عوزي رابي، Ph.D. Current Director of the MDC. His specialisations include the modern history of states and societies in the Persian Gulf, state building in the Middle East, oil and politics in the Middle East, Iranian-Arab relations, and Sunni-Shi’i tensions.
• إيتامار رابينوڤتش، Ph.D. Former Ambassador to the United States. Researcher in the history and politics of Syria and Lebanon.
• شيمون شامير، Ph.D. Former Ambassador to Egypt and Jordan, and former director of the Reuven Shiloah Institute.
• إيريت باك، دكتوراه، رئيس قسم الدراسات الأفريقية في المركز، ومؤلفة "Intervention and Sovereignty in Africa: Conflict Resolution and International Organisations in Darfur," (2016).
• عوفرا بنگيو، Ph.D. رئيس قسم الدراسات الكردية في المركز، and editor of "The Kurds: Nation-Building in a Fragmented Homeland," (2014).
• Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, Ph.D. Senior Research Fellow at the MDC, and a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
• آشر سوسر، Ph.D. Senior Research Fellow at the MDC, Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University, and a former director of the Moshe Dayan Center.
• Paul Rivlin, Ph.D. Senior Research Fellow at the MDC, and editor of Iqtisadi: Middle East Economy.
• Mira Tzoreff, Ph.D. Research Fellow at the MDC
• Esti Webman, Ph.D. Senior Researcher at the MDC
• إيال زيسر, Ph.D. Senior Researcher at the MDC, former MDC Director, and currently the Vice-Rector of Tel Aviv University

 وصلات خارجية

• The Moshe Dayan Center Official site