Dror Ze'evi (born 1953, Haifa) is an Israeli historian who studies political, social and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey and the Levant.
Ze'evi's father, Benjamin (Benny) Zeevi, was deputy head of Mossad, and his mother, Galila, is an interior designer. Ze'evi grew up in different cities around Israel and the world, including several years in France and Britain. He served as an intelligence officer in the IDF until 1983, and was awarded the rank of Lt. Col. during his reserve service.
He wrote his Ph.D. dissertation at Tel-Aviv University, on the Ottoman district of Jerusalem in the seventeenth century, and spent a post-doctoral year at Princeton on a Rothschild Fellowship.
In 1992, he returned to Israel and, along with Professor Meir Zamir, founded the Department of Middle East Studies at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He served as the department's first chair from 1995 to 1998, and again from 2002 to 2004. He also participated in the founding of the Chaim Herzog Center for Middle East Studies and Diplomacy, and served as its first chair from 1997 to 2002.
Ze'evi was part of the group of scholars who relaunched the veteran Israeli "Oriental Society" and renamed it MEISAI (Middle East and Islamic Studies Association of Israel). He served as the association's first president, from 2006 to 2009. He is also one of the founders of the Israeli Forum for Regional Thinking.
Works
edit- Ze'evi, Dror (1996). An Ottoman Century: The District of Jerusalem in the 1600s. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-1-4384-2475-0.[1][2][3][4]
- Ze’evi, Dror (2006). Producing Desire: Changing Sexual Discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-93898-4.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
- Morris, Benny; Ze’evi, Dror (2019). The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-91645-6.
References
edit- ^ Quataert, Donald (1998). "Dror Ze'evi. An Ottoman Century: The District of Jerusalem in the 1600s. (SUNY Series in Medieval Middle East History.) Albany: State University of New York Press. 1996. Pp. xii, 258". The American Historical Review. doi:10.1086/ahr/103.4.1288.
- ^ Gerber, Haim (1997). "Review of An Ottoman Century: The District of Jerusalem in the 1600s". Middle East Journal. 51 (3): 453–455. ISSN 0026-3141. JSTOR 4329103.
- ^ Rood, Judith Mendelsohn (1997). "An Ottoman century: the district of Jerusalem in the 1600s. By Dror Ze'evi. pp. xii, 258. Albany, NY, State University of New York Press, 1996, US $24.95". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 7 (3): 448–450. doi:10.1017/S1356186300009561. S2CID 164080453.
- ^ Simon, Rachel (1997). "An Ottoman Century: The District of Jerusalem in the 1600s: Dror Ze'evi". Digest of Middle East Studies. 6 (3): 62–64. doi:10.1111/j.1949-3606.1997.tb00747.x.
- ^ "El-Rouayheb on Ze'evi, 'Producing Desire: Changing Sexual Discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900 (Studies on the History of Society and Culture)' | H-Levant | H-Net". networks.h-net.org. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
- ^ Zirinski, Roni (2008). "Book Review: Producing Desire: Changing Sexual Discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900. By Dror Ze'evi. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2006, i-xv + 223 pp., $24.95 (paper)". Gender & Society. 22 (3): 391–393. doi:10.1177/0891243207311047. S2CID 145751029.
- ^ Semerdjian, Elyse (2010). "Dror Ze'evi . Producing Desire: Changing Sexual Discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500–1900 . (Studies on the History of Society and Culture.) Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press . 2006 . Pp. xv, 223. Cloth $60.00, paper $24.95". The American Historical Review. 115 (4): 1255–1256. doi:10.1086/ahr.115.4.1255.
- ^ Baer, Marc (2007). "Dror Ze'evi. Producing Desire: Changing Sexual Discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006, 223 pages, index. US$24.95 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-520-24563-1". Middle East Studies Association Bulletin. 41 (2): 225–226. doi:10.1017/S0026318400050902. S2CID 164846821.
- ^ Russell, M. L. (2007). "Producing Desire: Changing Sexual Discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500 1900". Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 27 (3): 691–692. doi:10.1215/1089201x-2007-044.
- ^ Polat, Burcu (2011). "Producing Desire: Changing Sexual Discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500–1900 by Dror Ze'evi". Journal of Middle East Women's Studies. 7 (3): 116–118. doi:10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.7.3.116. S2CID 161560166.
- ^ Russell, Mona L. (2007). "Producing Desire: Changing Sexual Discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500–1900 (review)". Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 27 (3): 691–692. doi:10.1215/1089201x-2007-044. ISSN 1548-226X.