Khalil Shikaki

Khalil Shikaki has directed the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah since 2000 and is a founding senior fellow of Brandeis University’s Crown Center for Middle East Studies. Shikaki is an expert on Palestinian public opinion and has taught at institutions such as Birzeit University, An-Najah National University, the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, and the University of South Florida. A widely published author, Shikaki co-authored Arabs and Israelis: Conflict and Peacemaking in the Middle East (2013), the first university textbook on Arab-Israeli conflict history co-written by Israeli, Palestinian, and Egyptian authors.