Omri Eilat is an economic and social historian of Modern Turkey and the Arabic-speaking Middle East in the late Ottoman period. He wrote his dissertation “Crises versus Opportunities: Entrepreneurship and Engineering in Late Ottoman Syria, 1890-1920” at Tel-Aviv University under the supervision of Prof. Ehud R. Toledano and his MA thesis, “Turkey’s Tourism Industry against the Backdrop of Economic and Political Changes, 1950-2010” at the University of Haifa under the supervision of Prof. On Winckler and Prof. Yuval Ben-Bassat. During his graduate studies, he managed the Middle East and Islamic Studies Association of Israel (MEISAI) and was a Rottenstreich fellow of Israel’s Council of Higher Education. Currently, he is a postdoctoral fellow at the Middle East and Islamic Studies Department and the Haifa Marine Strategy Research Institute, where he continues his research on the history of Modern Turkey and Greater Syria in the Ottoman period.