Ze'ev Maghen

Ze'ev Maghen is the Chair of The Department of Middle Eastern History at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and a research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. He is also part-time lecturer at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, where he teaches courses such as "Judaism and Christianity in the Eyes of Islam" and "Shi'ite Religion and Iranian Revolution." Maghen received his Ph.D in History from Columbia University in 1997. He is also the creator of the Lights in Action student network of North America. Professor Maghen is fluent in Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Russian.