Khalil Shikaki
Khalil Shikaki is a professor of political science, director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) in Ramallah, and member of the steering committee of the Arab Barometer. He is also a senior fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University. He finished his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1985, and taught at several Palestinian and American universities including al-Najah University, Birzeit University, the University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee), the University of South Florida (Tampa), the University of Utah, and the University of Michigan. His most recent publications include Arabs and Israelis: Conflict and Peacemaking in the Middle East, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, second edition) with Abdel Monem Said Aly and Shai Feldman.
Dahlia Scheindlin
Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin is a political strategist and a public opinion researcher who has advised on nine national campaigns in Israel and worked on elections, referendums, and public affairs campaigns in 15 other countries over the last 25 years. In addition to Israel, she has regional expertise in the Balkans and Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Cyprus. Dahlia conducts extensive public opinion research for civil society organizations, including joint Israeli-Palestinian surveys. She holds a PhD in political science from Tel Aviv University and a master’s degree from Harvard Divinity School. Dahlia is a regular columnist for Haaretz (English) and a policy fellow at Century International. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Review of Books, and the New Statesman, among other publications, and she has co-hosted several podcasts, including The Tel Aviv Review and the Election Overdose podcast at Haaretz. Her new book, The Crooked Timber of Democracy in Israel: Promise Unfulfilled was published in September, 2023.