Prof. David Menashri, is a renowned scholar of Iranian Studies. The founding director of the Center for Iranian Studies and the Parviz and Pouran Nazarian Chair for Modern Iranian History at Tel Aviv University, he is also the former dean of Special Programs at Tel Aviv University. He has been a visiting Fulbright scholar at both Princeton and Cornell University and a visiting scholar at universities around the world, including the University of Chicago, Melbourne University and the University of Munich. A prolific author, Prof. Menashri is the recipient of numerous awards in Israel and abroad, and has received grants from the Ford Foundation, Fulbright Foundation and Ben Gurion Foundation.