Dror Zeevi is Associate Professor of Middle East Studies. He teaches social and cultural history at Ben Gurion University. Zeevi received his Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University in 1992 and after Post-doctoral studies at Princeton University joined the faculty of BGU where he helped found the Department of Middle East Studies and was its first chair from 1995 to 1998 and again from 2002 to 2004. He was also among the founders of The Chaim Herzog Center for Middle East Studies and Diplomacy and its first Chair from its foundation in 1997 to 2002. From 2006 to 2008 he served as President of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Association of Israel (MEISAI). He is currently the head of Ben Gurion University's School of History.

An Ottoman Century: The District of Jerusalem in the 1600s (State University of New York Press, 1996), and Producing Desire: Changing Sexual Discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900 (University of California Press, 2006).