Mordechai Kedar
Israeli colonel & Arab & Oriental studies academic
Mordechai Kedar (Hebrew: מרדכי קידר, pronounced [moʁdeˈχaj keˈdaʁ]; born 25 November 1952) is an Israeli scholar of Arab culture and a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University.
Biography
Mordechai Kedar was born in Tel Aviv. His Polish-Jewish parents moved to Mandatory Palestine in the 1930s. Kedar's first language was Yiddish.
Kedar is an expert in Israeli Arab culture. He served for 25 years (1970–1995) in IDF Military Intelligence, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel. He specialized in Islamic groups, the political discourse of Arab countries, the Arabic press and mass media, and the Syrian domestic arena.
He received his PhD from Bar-Ilan University in 1987, with a thesis entitled The Public Political Language of the Assad Regime in Syria: Messages and Ways of Expressing Them. He is fluent in Hebrew, Arabic, and English. He is described as "one of the few Arabic-speaking Israeli pundits seen on Arabic satellite channels defending Israel".
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