Myles Behar has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to pursue a master’s in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. While there, he plans to gain deeper insight into significant cultural and literary touchstones for his research project, “How the use of keywords, such as ‘martyr’ and ‘genocide’ differ from the Western world to the Middle East.” In doing so, he seeks to understand how these ideas have directly influenced the opinions of college-age individuals on the Israel-Hamas War. 

Myles Behar attended Indiana University, where he graduated summa cum laude with a BA in history and a minor in political science. During the spring of 2024, Myles interned at the think tank the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA). He has just completed an honors history paper on the significance of historical analysis and personal experience in proposing methods of managing the regional and nuclear ambitions of the Islamic Republic of Iran.