Author: Dotan Halevy

Dotan Halevy is a historian of the modern Middle East and a senior lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University. His current research project, “Settling Sands: Commodification, Migration, and the Making of the Modern Coastal Plain,” examines the environmental history of sand dune regions and their inhabitants along the southeastern Mediterranean basin. He is the co-editor (together with Hanna Ben-Yehuda) of Israel’s Heterotopia: Gaza in Israeli Politics and Culture (Gama Publishers, July 2023 [Hebrew]). His first monograph, Stripped: A Modern History of the Gaza Borderland , is currently under contract with Stanford University Press.