Visiting Professor

Dr. Liora Lukitz

Dr. Lukitz receiver her PhD in 1988 from London School of Economics and Political Science on 'The History and Politics of Modern Iraq.' She was  a fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies  at Harvard from 1989 to 1993, as well as the Wiener School of Modern European Studies at the Tel Aviv University (on Theories on Nationalism)  and a H.F. Guggenheim Fellow  at the Guggenheim Foundation  in NYC (writing on  Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Islam in Iraq of the 1990s). She is currently a fellow at the Truman Institute  at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

She is the author of two books: Iraq: the Search for National Identity ( London, 1995) and A Quest in the Middle East: Gertrude Bell and the Making of Modern Iraq ( London, Ny 2006). She has also publlished articles  in political, historical, and literary journals and chapters in collective books.