Ilan Zalayat is a Ph.D. candidate in Middle Eastern history at Tel Aviv University and a research fellow at the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National Security Studies and the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. His research focuses on the Gulf states and Yemen, with expertise in Shiite movements.
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