Prof. Meir Litvak (PhD, Harvard, 1991) is the director of the Alliance Center for Iranian Studies at Tel Aviv University. Prof. Litvak is a former lecturer at the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at the University and was the Chair of the department.
He is the author of Shi'i Scholars of Nineteenth Century Iraq: The ‘Ulama’ of Najaf and Karbala’ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), co-author of Iran: from a Persian Empire to an Islamic Republic (Tel Aviv: Open University of Israel Press, 2014, Hebrew), and co-author with Esther Webman, From Empathy to Denial: Arab Responses to the Holocaust (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009, Hebrew edition Magnes Press, 2015). In addition, he has edited and co-edited eight books, most recent among them, Constructing Nationalism in Iran: From the Qajars to the Islamic Republic (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017). His most recent book, Know Thy Enemy: Evolving Attitudes towards "Others" in Modern Shiʻi Thought and Practice has been published by Brill in 2021.
