Birth: NULL/NULL/1950 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Haifa in 1950; received a BA in Psychology & Statistics from the University of Haifa in 1972; continued his studies and earned an MA in Psychology from the University of Western Australia in 1979 and a PhD in Social Psychology from Wayne State University, US, in 1985; returned to Palestine and worked as lecturer at the Dept. of Psychology of An-Najah National University in Nablus from 1985-86, also serving as Dean of Social Research; became a Research Fellow at the Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, from 1985-87, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dept. of Psychology at Harvard University from 1987-1989; worked as lecturer at the Dept. of Psychology, Harvard University, from 1989-90; then became Assistant Prof. at the Dept. of Psychology of Boston College from 1990-97; Associate of the Harvard University Center for International Affairs since 1992 and served as Chair of the Center’s Seminar on International Conflict from 1992-2002; then Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts from 1997-2000; in 1999, Visiting Associate Prof. at the Dept. of Sociology of Tel Aviv University; Founding Director of the Arab Center for Applied Social Research – Mada Al-Carmel in Haifa since 2000; Associate Professor at the Sociology Dept. of Tel Aviv University since 2001; Visiting Associate Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, in 2004; Chair Professor at George Mason University’s Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution since 2004; wrote numerous essays and articles as well as a book entitled Palestinian Citizens in an Ethnic Jewish State: Identities in Conflict (Yale University Press, 1997).