Eli Osheroff

Research Fellow

Office: Floor 16, Eshkol Tower.

Office hours: by appointment only.

Email: eliyahu80@gmail.com

Fields of research: I am a historian of the modern Middle East, with emphasis on the Zionist-Arab conflict and Arab political and intellectual history. During my postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of English Language and Literature I am member of the ISF project Slipping sideways: Contemporaneity and Alternate Histories, under the supervision of Dr. Keren Omry. My research discusses Arab utopian writings and science fiction in the age of decolonization (1940s-1960s), and their dialogue with English literature.

Keywords: Zionist-Arab conflict, Utopias, Intellectual History, Science Fiction.

Selected Publications:

1. Eli Osheroff, “Was There Arab Bi-nationalism? Towards a History of Bi-nationalism from the ‘Other Side’”, Israel, 27-28 (Fall 2020), 165-186 (Hebrew).
2. Eli Osheroff and Hillel Cohen, “The Evolution of Israeli ‘Orientalism’ between the Practical and the Intellectual and between the Colonial and the Post”, Israeli Readings: Interdisciplinary Journal in the Humanities and Social Sciences (forthcoming, Hebrew).
3. Eli Osheroff and Avi-Ram Tzoref, “Not Only inside the Boarders of the Promised Land”, Ha-Zman Ha-Ze, online magazine of the Van-Leer Institute, Jerusalem, July 2019 (Hebrew).