Amir Segal

Amir Segal was born in 1980 in Tzippori

Amir Akiva Segal was born on July 1, 1980, in Tzippori. He studied sociology and completed a doctorate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research looked at migration of North American Jews to Israel as transnational migration.

In 2023 he became a research fellow at the Ruppin Academic Center and a lecturer at the Israeli branch of the International University of Economics and Business. That year he published papers on Israeli baseball and on American and Canadian immigrants working as fundraisers. In July 2025 he moved to Berlin as a postdoctoral researcher at the Free University of Berlin, studying diaspora communities.

His poems have appeared in journals such as Iton 77, Maayan and Mita'am. He has published 3 poetry books, a novel and a nonfiction book on protest poetry in Israel. He also translated poems by Osip Mandelstam and Viktor Tsoi from Russian.

With Shlomi Ben-Attar he presented the radio program Shirat Mecha'a on All for Peace radio, about protest songs. He wrote poetry criticism for Reshet Alef and Kav LaMoshav. He later began writing essays on science fiction film and television in outlets such as PopMatters.