Areej Sabbagh-Khoury is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A former postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University, New York University, Brown University and Tufts University, her research focuses on the political and historical sociology of Israeli and Palestinian societies. She co-edited two volumes of The Palestinians in Israel: A Guide to History, Politics, and Society (published in English, Hebrew and Arabic). Photo credit: Ilana Silverman Richter.

Daniel Sobelman is an assistant professor of International Relations at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a former Ha'aretz Arab affairs correspondent. He is a former research fellow with the International Security Program at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. Dr. Sobelman is currently writing a book about the evolution of "resistance" in several Middle East regional conflicts, including the clash between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Photo credit: Bennett Craig. 

Yair Wallach is a senior lecturer in Israel Studies at SOAS, University of London. Dr. Wallach also is chair of the Center for Jewish Studies and a member of the Center for Palestine Studies, part of the London Middle East Institute at SOAS. His research deals with modernity and its transformative dimensions in Israel/Palestine. He is the author of the book, A City in Fragments: Urban Texts in Modern Jerusalem (2020).

Dov Waxman (Moderator) is The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair of Israel Studies at UCLA, and the director of the Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Previously, Dr. Waxman was a professor of political science, international affairs, and Israel studies, and the Stotsky Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies at Northeastern University. Professor Waxman's latest book is, The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know (2019).