Ilan Zalayat

Ilan Zalayat is a Junior Researcher at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (MDC), and a doctoral student in the Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies at Tel Aviv University. His research focuses on the Arab Gulf States, particularly on political Islam and identities, and on Shi'i political thought. He holds an M.A. in Government with a specialization in Security from Raichmen University and a B.A. in Middle Eastern History from Tel Aviv University.