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Bashir Bashir, Associate Professor

Bashir Bashir
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The Open University of Israel Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication 1 University Road, P.O.B. 808 Ra’anana 4353701, Israel
Office:09-7781695 Email:[email protected]

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Areas of Interest
  • Democratic theory
  • Liberalism
  • Citizenship and nationalism studies
  • Deliberative democracy
  • Historical injustice and reconciliation
  • Memory of the Holocaust and the Nakba
  • Decolonization
  • Palestinian nationalism and political thought
  • Alternatives to partition in Palestine/Israel

Bashir Bashir, associate professor of political theory at the Open University of Israel  and a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. His research interests include democratic theory, liberalism, citizenship and nationalism studies, deliberative democracy, historical injustice and reconciliation, memory of the Holocaust and the Nakba, decolonization, Palestinian nationalism and political thought, and alternatives to partition in Palestine/Israel. His writings have appeared in English, Hebrew, Arabic, Italian, and German.

2001 - 2006
PhD - Department of Government, London School of Economics
1999 - 2000
MSc - Department of Government, London School of Economics
1994 - 1998
BA - Department of Political Science and Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2020-2021 Chair, Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication