Idan Barir

•  Jun 2009 
  Master's Degree excellence grant from The Chaim Herzog Center for Middle East Studies & Diplomacy
•  Oct 2008 
  Minerva Short-Term Research Grant (by Minerva Stiftung and the Israeli Ministery of Science and Tech
•  Aug 2008 
  Dean's honour of excellence (M.A)
•  May 2005 
  Dean's honour of excellence (B.A)

Co-founder, Editor and Translator from Arabic and Turkish in "Different Angle" (Zavit Acheret) website, offering Hebrew translations to Arab intellectual's op-eds from the Arab press worldwide (http://zavita.co.il).

Editor of "East Wind", a periodical published by the Moshe Dayan Center (Tel Aviv University) and MEISAI (Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Association of Israel), since April 2008.

Editorial board of "Middle East News and Views", a weekly publication of op-eds from the Middle Eastern press in English, since February 2009.

Co-instructor in the course " Things Seen from Here are Seen Differently There: Middle Eastern Cinema as a Means of Social Criticism" with Dr. Mira Tzoreff (school years of 2008 and 2009).

Initiator and coordinator of the "Middle Eastern Cinema Club" of the Department of Middle Eastern History and the Moshe Dayan Center, in which Arab, Turkish, Iranian and Kurdish movies have been screened on a bimonthly basis, free to the public (2007-present).

Languages: Hebrew, English, Arabic (Modern Standard and Palestinian Colloquial), Portuguese, French, Turkish.