Dror Ze'evi

Dror Ze'evi (born 1953, Haifa) is an Israeli historian who studies political, social and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey and the Levant.

Ze'evi's father, Benjamin (Benny) Zeevi [he], was deputy head of Mossad, and his mother, Galila, is an interior designer.

He wrote his Ph.D. dissertation at Tel-Aviv University, on the Ottoman district of Jerusalem in the seventeenth century, and spent a post-doctoral year at Princeton on a Rothschild Fellowship.

In 1992, he returned to Israel and, along with Professor Meir Zamir, founded the Department of Middle East Studies at Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

Ze'evi was part of the group of scholars who relaunched the veteran Israeli "Oriental Society" and renamed it MEISAI (Middle East and Islamic Studies Association of Israel).