Limor Lavie is a lecturer in the Department of Arabic at Bar Ilan University. Her research focuses on the status of religion in modern Middle Eastern countries, particularly Egypt, Islamic movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood, their ideology and activities, the Arab uprisings, the politics of Arab media, both traditional and new, and Arabic-Hebrew translation. 

Dr. Limor Lavie completed her degrees at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: a Bachelor's degree with honors in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies and International Relations, a Master's degree with honors in Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies, a PhD in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies under the supervision of Prof. Elie Podeh and Prof. Rami Ginat, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace. 

Her doctoral dissertation, titled "State-Religion Relations in Egypt: The Development of the Concept of the Civil State (Al-Dawla Al-Madaniya) in Intellectual Discourse from the Early 20th Century to the Present," received a commendation from the Israeli Association for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (IAMES). In her book, The Battle over a Civil State: Egypt’s Road to June 30, 2013, published in 2018, she analyzes the ideological gaps between Islamist and anti-Islamist movements in Egypt regarding the nature of the state and their influence on the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood government in 2013. 

Alongside her studies, Dr. Lavi held research and translation positions at the Middle East Media Research Institute and the Prime Minister’s Office. She also worked on the development of online Arabic courses at the Open University and contributed to the online project of the Menahem Milson Dictionary. Today, she is also a research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. 

Dr. Lavie was awarded the prestigious Alon Scholarship in the Humanities (2019), a fellowship the Council for Higher Education grants to promising researchers based on academic excellence. 

She is the recipient of the Bernard Lewis Prize (2023) from the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) in Washington, for her research on antisemitism in the Arab world, a subject that was a focus of Lewis's work.