School of Government, Reichman University
and Department of Communication, University of Haifa,
Israel

Dr. Gabriel Weimann is a Full Professor of Communication (Emeritus) at the Department of Communication at Haifa University, a Full Professor at Reichman University, Israel, and a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University, U.S. His research interests include the study of political campaigns, persuasion and influence, modern terrorism and the mass media, online terrorism, and cyber terrorism. He published nine books including The Theater of Terror (New York: Longman, 1994); Terror in the Internet: The New Arena, the New Challenges (Washington, D.C.: USIP Press, 2006), Freedom and Terror (London: Routledge, 2011); and Terrorism in Cyberspace (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015). His 250 papers and research reports have been published in leading scientific journals and he received numerous grants and awards from international foundations, including the Fulbright Foundation, the U.S. National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the Canada-Israel Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, the German National Research Foundation (DFG), The U.S. Education Foundation, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the Sasakawa Foundation, the United States Institute for Peace (USIP), The Woodrow Wilson Center, the Australian Research Council (ARC), and others. Weimann was a Visiting Professor at various universities, including the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, the University of Maryland, American University (DC), Georgetown University, Hofstra University, Lehigh University (in the U.S.), University of Mainz, and University of Munich (in Germany), Carleton University (in Canada), NYU branch in Shanghai, China, and the National University of Singapore (NUS).