Ofir Winter is a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Tel Aviv, where he specializes in Arab-Israeli relations and contemporary Egypt. He is also a lecturer in Tel Aviv University's Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, where he teaches the course "Peace in Islam." He earned his Ph.D. in Middle Eastern History from the same university in 2015. He has authored several articles for reputable international peer-reviewed journals, including Middle Eastern Studies, Islamic Law and Society, and New Middle Eastern Studies. He is also the co-author of the book Zionism in Arab Discourses (MUP, 2016).