Haggai Erlich is an Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. He obtained a BA in General History and History of the Middle East and Africa from Tel Aviv University 1967, an MA in History of Islamic Peoples from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1969, and his Ph.D. in African history from London University, 1973. Over the years, he has published widely on African and Middle Eastern studies, with a concentration on Ethiopia's relations with the Islamic worlds, awarding him the 2010 Landau Prize in Humanities, African Studies in 2010.