2022-present Max Schloessinger Chair in Islamic Studies
2021-present Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2013-2020 Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History, Shalem College, Jerusalem
2012-2020 Associate Professor (with tenure) of Middle Eastern History, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Bar-Ilan University
2010-2012 Senior Lecturer, then Reader in Jewish Studies and Abrahamic Religions, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, King’s College London, University of London
2007-2010 University Research Lecturer in Near Eastern Studies, The Oriental Institute, University of Oxford
2007-2010 Governing Body Fellow, The Queen’s College, Oxford
2005-2007 Departmental Lecturer in Islamic History, The Oriental Institute, University of Oxford
Awards and fellowship
2021 Winner, Hebrew University "Outstanding Lecturer" Award
2018 Winner, Bar Ilan University “Outstanding Lecturer” Award
2017 Visiting Professor, The Graduate Center, CUNY (by invitation of GC President, Prof. Chase F. Robinson)
2017 Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Nominee for “Outstanding Lecturer” Award.
2002 R.A. Nicholson Prize for Ph.D., dissertation on The Origins and Development of the Islamic Postal System
1996-1999 Elected “Robinson College Scholar” for Academic Distinction, Cambridge
1996, 1999 Awarded “College Prize” for Academic Excellence, Robinson College, Cambridge
Academic conferences and presentations (selected)
2019 “Samaritan ideas in Early Islam”, The Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem.
2018 “Joseph in the Qur’ān”, The British Academy, London.
2018 “The Holy Land in the Holy Books”, Faculty of Theology, Notre Dame University.
2018 “On Some Aspects of Daniel’s Reception in Islam”, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem.
2016 “Asātīr: On the Reception of the Esther Story in Medieval Islam”, Institute for Advanced Study, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2016 “The Islamic State and Early Islamic History”, multiple workshops for Colleagues and the General Public, Bar Ilan University.
2016 “Did Haman have a Brother?” Conference in honour of Prof. Guy Stroumsa.
2016 “The Persian Midrashic Tradition and the Esther Story” – National Library of Israel, Public Lecture.
2015 “Abrahamic Religions and the Middle East”, Notre Dame University, Tantur Institute.
2014 “The Islamic ‘Space’” Forum Baer, Tel Aviv University.
2014 “The Abrahamic Religions: Three Models,” Israel Academy of Sciences, Jerusalem.
2013 “Islam as an Abrahamic Religion,” University of Utrecht [keynote lecture].
2010 “Redefining the Abrahamic Religions,” The History Department, SOAS.
2010 “Satan, Shamash, and the Origins of Tashlīkh,” Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2009 “Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Lessons from History,” The Joseph Interfaith Foundation.
2009 “The Qur’anic Satan and the Book of Job,” Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
2009 “On the Original Meaning of the Term al-shaytan al-rajim,” Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2008 “Jews and News: Jewish Communication Networks from Sasanid Babylonia to Early Modern Europe,” Brown University.
2008 “The Qur’anic Pharaoh,” SOAS International Qur’an Conference.
2008 “The Early Islamic State: Three Models,” From Justinian to Muhammad Seminar, Faculty of History, University of Oxford.
2007 “Haman’s Contribution to Muslim-Jewish Relations,” Institute for Jewish Studies, University College London.
- “Jubilees VIII-IX in Near Eastern Context,” The Oriental Institute, Oxford University.
2007 “The Origins and Originality of Arabic Geographical Literature,” Khalili Research Centre, Oxford University.
2006 “Hāmān: From Jāhiliyya to Islam,” Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2006 “After Rome: All Roads Lead to Damascus,” After Rome Seminar, Faculty of History, Oxford University.
2006 “Haman’s Mid-Life Crisis,” Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
2005 “Signed, Sealed and Delivered: Communications-Technology in the Middle Ages,” Birkbeck College, University of London.
2004 “Tujjār and Akhbār: The Documentary Evidence,” Documentary Evidence and the History of the Early Islamic Mediterranean, Granada, Spain.
- “The Marwānid Barīd,” The Oriental Institute, Oxford University.
2003 “The Barīd in pre-Umayyad Arabia,” Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2003 “The Contribution of Christians and Jews to Medieval Islamic Science,” Faculty of the History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University.
2003 “Arabic Geographical Literature,” Faculty of the History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University.
2002 “The Use of Documentary Evidence in Studying the Barid,” Conference of the International Society of Arabic Papyrologists, Cairo.
2002 “How to Read a Medieval Postal-System,” King’s College, Cambridge.
2002 “On Some Aspects of the Abbasid Barîd,” School for Abbasid Studies, Cambridge University.
2000 “The Anatomy of Surveillance in Near Eastern Literatures: A Cross-Cultural Survey,” School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
2000 “The Historical Background of the Ottoman Term ‘Frenk,’” The Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, Newnham College, Cambridge.