Galia Sabar is the chair of African Studies at Tel Aviv University.  

Since 2006 her research has focused on African Asylum seekers, mainly from Sudan and Eritrea who have started entering Israel via its lax boarder with Egypt. Some of her publication include: "Remembering the Past & Constructing the future Over a Communal Plate: African Asylum seekers' self established Restaurants in Tel Aviv" and "Israel and the ‘Holy Land’:The Religio-Political Discourse of Rights among African Migrant Labourers and African Asylum Seekers, 1990-2008."

Since 2011 Galia, is involved in a comparative research on conjunctions of tradition, modernity and post-modernity that shape theologies about contemporary migratory movements. As part of her research she is analyzing texts (written and other) which give religious interpretations to concepts such as labor migration, globalization, trans-nationalism and advanced media technologies. In addition she examines the means through which religious establishments spread and institutionalize those interpretations. The conceptual point of departure is that contemporary religious movements legitimize and even glorify migration (originating from non-religious motivations) in ways that reaffirm their dogmas. The comparative analyses focuses on Christianity, Islam and Judaism within the context of global migration.

Parallel to her role as a scientist Galia has been active in several Israeli and international NGO's including Jerusalem AIDS Project; Hotline for Migrant workers and refugees, IRAC, Israel Human Right Action.