Dr. Thamar E. Gindin is An Iranist, a bridge-builder, an eye-opener. She hopes to be Israel’s first cultural attaché in free Iran. In the meantime, she builds bridges between the nations of Iran and Israel. she does it through spreading knowledge and opening people’s eyes to the fact that we are much more alike than they might think. she spreads the knowledge through books, press interviews and lectures, as well as through her Hebrew blog and podcasts. Dr. Gindin is core faculty member in the programme for Middle Eastern Studies in Shalem College of Liberal Arts, and a research fellow in Ezri Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies in Haifa University.
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