Professor Uzi Rabi Ph.D. is the Director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, a professor of Middle Eastern history at the Department of Middle Eastern and African Studies, and a senior researcher at the Center for Iranian Studies, all at Tel Aviv University.

Professor Rabi is also the director of the annual Tel Aviv University Workshop in which scholars from around the world visit Israel for a 10-day seminar on the geopolitics of Israel and its neighbors, as well as the history of the region and its significance in contemporary world affairs.

Formerly, he was the head of the Middle Eastern and African History Department at Tel Aviv University, From 2004-2005, he held a visiting professorship at the Lipinski Institute of San Diego State University.

His research focuses on the modern history and evolution of states and societies in the Middle East, Iranian-Arab relations, oil and politics in the Middle East, and Sunni-Shi’a dynamics. Within this framework, he has supervised the dissertations of numerous doctoral candidates in this field over the years.

Professor Rabi is regularly invited by the Israeli Knesset to deliver updates and briefs on current developments in the Middle East. He is the co-editor of Bustan: The Middle East Book Review, and he is also the author of numerous publications, academic articles, and book reviews, including: Rabi Uzi, The Return of the Past: State, Identity, and Society in the Post-Arab Spring Middle East (Lexington Books, 2019) | Rabi Uzi & Bouasria Abdelilah (Editors), Lost in translation: New Paradigms for the Arab Spring (Sussex Academic Press, 2017) | Rabi Uzi (Editor), Tribes and states in a Changing Middle East (Hurst Publications, 2016) | Rabi Uzi, Yemen: Revolution, Civil War and Unification (I.B. Tauris, 2015) | Rabi Uzi (Editor), International Intervention in Local Conflicts: Crisis Management and Conflict Resolution Since the Cold War (I.B. Tauris, 2010).

While focusing on Middle East research, Professor Rabi is also highly involved in the Jewish world and the fight against the rising antisemitism. Over the years, he was fortunate enough to work closely with Jewish leaders, as well as Jewish communities, organizations,and individuals around the world. Amongst those organizations are the World Jewish Congress (WJC), Israeli American Council (IAC), Jewish National Fund (JNF), and others.