Dr. Khader Sawaed
Head, Arab Society in Israel Program
Khader Sawaed is the head of the Arab Society Program in Israel at the Israel Democracy Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Haifa, where his dissertation examined the impact of stateness components on democratization processes, focusing on Egypt and Tunisia after the Arab Spring.
In the past, he served as a Research Fellow at the Mitvim Institute, a Neubauer Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), and a Visiting Researcher at the Leonard Davis Institute at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2017, he was awarded the Chaim Herzog Prize for Middle East Studies and Diplomacy by Ben-Gurion University.
Alongside his research career, Sawaed taught civics for 22 years, served as a pedagogical instructor, and held the position of middle school principal for four years. He is a graduate of the Avney Rosha Institute for School Leadership.