Mordechai Nisan

Mordechai Nisan earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from McGill University in Montreal. He taught Middle East Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for 35 years, and at other academic institutions in Israel, while cultivating a wide-ranging interest in the peoples and religions of the region. Among his writings: Toward a New Israel: The Jewish State and the Arab Question (1992), Minorities in the Middle East (2002), The Conscience of Lebanon: A Political Biography of Etienne Sakr (Abu-Arz) (2003), and most recently Only Israel West of the River (2010). Dr. Nisan continues to lecture and write on contemporary issues concerning the Mideast and its multi-faceted problems.