Nabih Bashir was born in Sakhnin in the Galilee, and studied political science and sociology at the Hebrew University before completing his doctorate in Jewish Through at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in 2015. His research focuses on two different fields: medieval Judeo-Arabic literature in general and the medieval corpus of exegetical literature; history of Zionism. He is the author of several articles and books in the two fields and published an Arabic edition of Yehuda Ha-Levi’s “Kuzari”. Currently, he is preparing an anthology of the Jewish national though and Zionism to be published in Arabic. He is a researcher in the Triangle Research and Development Center (Kafr Kara, Israel) and an adjunct lecturer – Master Program in Israeli Studies (Center for Advanced Studies, Birzeit University).