Raphael Cohen-Almagor received his doctorate from the University of Oxford. He is Chair in Politics, Founding Director of the Middle East Study Centre (MESC), University of Hull; Fellow at The Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Global Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (WWICS), Washington DC, and President of The Association for Israel Studies (AIS). Raphael was the Yitzhak Rabin-Fulbright Visiting Professor at UCLA School of Law and Department of Communication; Visiting Professor at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University; Fellow at WWICS (twice); Distinguished Visiting Professor to the Faculty of Laws, University College London, and The 2023 Olof Palme Visiting Professor, Lund University, Sweden.

Raphael is the author of hundreds of publications, including many books, most recently Confronting the Internet’s Dark Side (2015, Cambridge University Press), Just, Reasonable Multiculturalism (2021, CUP), and The Republic, Secularism and Security: France versus the Burqa and the Niqab (2022, Springer). His Resolving the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict: A Critical Study of Peace Mediation, Facilitation and Negotiations between Israel and the PLO is forthcoming (CUP).