Dr. Menahem Merhavy
M.A., Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Menahem Merhavy is a fellow at The Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and formerly a researcher at the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations at the Hebrew University and a Fulbright postdoctoral fellow at The University of Texas at Austin. His academic expertise is modern Iran and Shiism, as well as the relations between religious and national identities in Iran and the Arab World.
Selected Publications
Book
National Symbols in Modern Iran Identity, Ethnicity, and Collective Memory (Syracuse University Press, 2019).
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters in Collections
“The Islamic Republic and pre-Islamic heritage in Iran,” Iran Az ve Achshav (Iran, Then and Now) (Hakibutz Hameuhad, 2017), pp. 149-163. (in Hebrew)
“True Muslims Must Always Be Tidy and Clean: Exoticism of the Countryside in Late Pahlavi Iran,” in Meir Litvak (ed.), Constructing Nationalism in Iran (Routledge, Abingdon, 2017), pp. 158-172.
“Arab Socialism and Ecumenical Tendencies in Egypt (1962-1970),” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 43:4 (2016), pp. 472-485.
“Religious Appropriation of National Symbols in Iran: Searching for Cyrus the Great,” Iranian Studies (Taylor and Francis), vol. 48:6 (2015), pp. 933-948.
“Realms of Iranian Memory: Persepolis as a Test Case,” Hamizrach Hachadash, vol. 49 (2010), pp. 114-123. (in Hebrew)