Mahmoud Yazbak (Arabic: محمود يزبك, Hebrew: מחמוד יזבק) is an Israeli Arab academic. He is the first Arab elected as President of the Middle East & Islamic Studies Association of Israel, (MEISAI), the main scholarly association of researchers on the Middle East and Islam in Israel.
Yazbak earned his Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Studies from Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1996.[1] Yazbak is a lecturer at the University of Haifa. He specializes in Palestinian social history.[2]
Yazbak is a board member of the Adalah since 2004.[citation needed]
He is the father of Heba Yazbak, member of the Knesset for Balad.
Books
edit- Mahmoud Yazbak (1998). Haifa in the Late Ottoman Period, A Muslim Town in Transition, 1864–1914. Brill Academic Pub. ISBN 978-9004110519.
References
edit- ^ "Dr. Mahmoud Yazbak, Senior Lecturer". University of Haifa. 5 March 2009. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
- ^ Ofri Ilani (11 February 2009). "Arab Researcher Appointed to Head Middle East Studies". Haaretz. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
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