Gadi Hitman is a senior lecturer, faculty member and the chair of the Middle East Department and Political Science at Ariel University. He holds a Ph.D from Bar Ilan University. He is the author of five books: Israel and its Arab minority: Dialogue, Protest, Violence (Lexington, 2016); National Schism and Civil Integration: Mutual Relations Between the Israeli Central Government and the Israeli Arab Palestinian Minority (Sussex Academic Press, 2018); The Fatah-Hamas Rift: An Analysis of Failed Negotiation (SUNY Press, 2022); A SWOT Analysis if Family-Wahhabi Nationalism Case Study (Lexington, 2022) – the winner of Bernard Lewis prize 2022; In Search of Identity: the ongoing internal crisis within the Israeli Society (SUNY, expected 2024). Hitman published nearly 40 articles on the Gulf States region, consequences of the regional turmoil in the Middle East and theoretical/empiric aspects of nationalism, ethnicity, political protest or violence, and narratives. He already has developed various models relating to these topics.