Minorities and the State in the Arab World

Ofra Bengio and Gabriel Ben-Dor (eds.)

Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.

1999

The Contributors

 

Ami Ayalon is senior research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies and associate professor, Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University. He is author of Language and Change in the Arab Middle East (1987), The Press in the Arab Middle East, A History (1995), and numerous articles on modern Arab political and cultural history; editor of Regime and Opposition in Egypt Under Sadat (1983, in Hebrew); and coeditor of Demography and Politics in the Arab States (1995, in Hebrew).

Gabriel Ben-Dor is professor of political science and director of the Graduate Program in National Security Studies at the University of Haifa. He is a former rector of the university, as well as past president of the Israel Political Science Association. Ben-Dor is a specialist in Middle East politics, and he has written and published extensively on the role of the military in the politics of the region, minorities and ethnic politics in the Middle East, inter-Arab relations, and the Arab-Israeli conflict, as well as security and strategic issues in the area. The books he has authored or edited include The Druzes in Israel: A Political Study; State and Conflict in the Middle East; The Palestinians and the Middle East Conflict; Political Participation in Turkey; Conflict Management in the Middle East; Confidence Building in the Middle East; and the recent special issue of the annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences entitled Israel in Transition.

Ofra Bengio is senior research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies and assistant professor, Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. Her fields of specialization include contemporary Middle Eastern history, modern and contemporary politics of Iraq, and the Arabic language. She is author of The Kurdish Revolt in Iraq (1989, in Hebrew), Saddam Speaks on the Gulf Crisis: A Collection of Documents (1991); Political Discourse and the Language of Power (1996, Hebrew); Saddam’s Word (1998); and articles.

Joseph Kostiner is senior research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies and associate professor, Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. He has published several papers on the subject of the history and current affairs of the Arabian Peninsula states. He is author of The Struggle for South Yemen (1984), South Yemen’s Revolutionary Strategy (1990), and From Chieftaincy to Monarchical State: The Making of Saudi Arabia 1916–1936 (1993) and coeditor (with P. S. Khoury) of Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East (1991).

Bruce Maddy-Weitzman is senior research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. His fields of specialization include contemporary Middle Eastern history, inter-Arab relations, and the modern Maghreb. He is author of The Crystallization of the Arab State System: Inter Arab Politics, 1945–1954 (1993) and articles on regional Arab politics and Maghreb affairs. He is coeditor of Religious Radicalism in the Greater Middle East (1997) and editor of the center’s annual yearbook, Middle East Contemporary Survey.

Uzi Rabi is instructor at the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. He specializes on modern history of the Gulf states.

Yehudit Ronen is research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies and lecturer at the Department of Middle East and African History. She is author of Sudan in a Civil War: Between Africanism, Arabism and Islam (1995, in Hebrew) and editor of The Maghrib: Politics, Society, Economy (1998, in Hebrew). She specializes in Sudan, Libya, and the Maghreb.

Asher Susser is senior research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, a former head of the center, and associate professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. He specializes in the history and politics of Jordan and the Palestinians and religion and state in the Middle East. He is author of Between Jordan and Palestine: A Political Biography of Wasfi al-Tall (1983, in Hebrew), The PLO After the War in Lebanon (1985, in Hebrew), and On Both Banks of the Jordan (1994) and coeditor of At the Core of the Conflict: The Intifada (1992, in Hebrew) and The Hashemites in the Modern Arab World (1995).

Meir Zamir, professor of political science, teaches at the Department of Middle East Studies and the School of Management at Ben-Gurion University in the Negev. He is author of The Formation of Modern Lebanon and Lebanon’s Quest: The Road to Statehood, 1926–1939.

Eyal Zisser is research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies and lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University. He is author of several studies on modern Syrian and Lebanese politics.