Professor Shimon Shamir is a senior researcher at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. He is one of the center’s founders and served as its head during 1966 – 1973. Prof. Shamir is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University.
He also served as Israel’s ambassador to Egypt (1988 – 1990) and to Jordan (1994 – 1997).
In 2022, he was awarded the Israel Prize for Research in Near Eastern Studies.
