Ofra Bengio

Ofra Bengio is a senior research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies Tel Aviv University and the head of Kurdish studies programme at the Moshe Dayan Center. She is also a lecturer at Shalem College Jerusalem.Her fields of specialisation are: contemporary Middle Eastern history modern and contemporary politics of Iraq Turkey and the Kurds. She is also interested in culture and literature of Middle Eastern societies.Prof. Bengio has translated poetry and prose from Arabic and Turkish into Hebrew. She was a visiting fellow at Emory Beijing and Bogazici Universities as well as the Washington Institute. She has participated in many conferences all over the world and is a frequent commentator in Israeli and international media.