Alek D. Epstein

Who is Alek D. Epstein?

Alek D. Epstein is an acknowledged Russian-Israeli sociologist and political scientist. He divides his time between Jerusalem and Moscow, taking part in a number of academic, educational, social change and civil rights activism projects in both countries. An expert in Israeli history and politics, as well as in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, he has written extensively on intellectuals' influence on the emergence of civil society, on the development of conscientious disobedience as an indicator of the changing patterns of civil-military relations, on the development of Israel studies as a research field in various countries, on the emergence of the Palestinian refugee problem and unsuccessful attempts to solve it, on various aspects of immigrant scientists’ and teachers’ professional and social integration in Israel, and on several additional topics. Alek D. Epstein published more than 160 manuscripts in various scientific journals and collections and authored fourteen books on Israel and the Middle East, published in Russian. He is active in Russian public and intellectual life as well as in civil rights activism.