Mizrahi Jews: History, Opportunities, and Challenges for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Zvi Ben-Dor Benite is Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies as well as Chinese history at NYU. He has researched past and present intersections of Muslim, Arab and Jewish identities. He is the author of several books on Islam in Chinese and Asian history and is editor of Middle Eastern Jewish Thought. Zvi is a one of the founders of the Mizrahi Civic Collective, a board member of Academia for Equality and a member of Magen David Synagogue in downtown Manhattan.