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Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab Middle East, by Israel Gershoni and James Jankowski, editors


Contributors


Beth Baron is Associate Professor of History at the Graduate School and the City College of the City University of New York. She is the coeditor, with Nikki R. Keddie, of Women in Middle Eastern History (Yale University Press, 1991) and the author of The Women's Awakening in Egypt: Culture, Society, and the Press (Yale University Press, 1994).

Musa Budeiri is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Area Studies at Al Quds University, East Jerusalem. His publications include The Palestine Communist Party, 1919-1948: Arab and Jew in the Struggle for Internationalism (Ithaca Press, 1979).

William L. Cleveland is Professor of History at Simon Fraser University. His publications include The Making of an Arab Nationalist: Ottomanism and Arabism in the Life and Thought of Sati al-Husri (Princeton University Press, 1971); Islam Against the West: Shakib Arslan and the Campaign for Islamic Nationalism (Texas University Press, 1985); and A History of the Modern Middle East (Westview Press, 1994).

James Gelvin is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is the author of Contesting Nationalisms and the Birth of Mass Politics in Syria (University of California Press, 1997).

Israel Gershoni is Professor of History in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of The Emergence of Pan-Arabism in Egypt (Shiloah Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, 1981) and coauthor, with James Jankowski, of Egypt, Islam, and the Arabs: The Search for Egyptian Nationhood, 1900-1930 (Oxford University Press, 1986), and Redefining the Egyptian Nation (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

Fred Halliday is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His publications include Arabia Without Sultans: A Political Survey of Instability in the Arab World (Vintage, 1975); Iran: Dictatorship and Development (Penguin, 1979); The Making of the Second Cold War (Verso, 1986); Revolution in Foreign Policy: The Case of South Yemen, 1967-1987  (Cambridge University Press, 1990); and Islam and the Myth of Confrontation (I. B. Tauris, 1996).

James Jankowski is Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of Egypt's Young Rebels: Young Egypt, 1933-1952 (Hoover Institution Press, 1975), and the coauthor, with Israel Gershoni, or Egypt, Islam, and the Arabs: The Search for Egyptian Nationhood, 1900-1930 (Oxford University Press, 1986) and Redefining the Egyptian Nation, 1930-1945 (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

Rashid Khalidi is Professor of History and Director of the Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago. His publications include British Policy Toward Syria and Palestine, 1906-1914 (Ithaca Press, 1980), Under Siege: PLO Decision-Making During the 1982 War (Columbia University Press, 1986), and Palestinian Identity: the Construction of Modern National Consciousness (Columbia University Press, 1997). He is the coeditor of The Origins of Arab Nationalism (Columbia University Press, 1991).

Philip S. Khoury is Professor of History and Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Urban Notables and Arab Nationalism: The Politics of Damascus, 1860-1920 (Cambridge University Press, 1983) and Syria and the French Mandate: The Politics of Arab Nationalism, 1920-1945 (Princeton University Press, 1987). He is the coeditor, with Joseph Kostiner, of Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East (University of California Press, 1990) and, with Albert Hourani and Mary C. Wilson, of The Modern Middle East: A Reader (University of California Press, 1993).

Zachary Lockman teaches in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at New York University. He is the author of Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948 (University of California Press, 1996); the editor of Workers and Working Classes in the Middle East: Struggles, Histories, Historiographies (State University of New York Press, 1994); and the coauthor, with Joel Beinin, of Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954 (Princeton University Press, 1987).

Gabriel Piterberg is a Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He is the coauthor, with Elan Pappe, of The Politics of History in Israel (Cambridge University Press, 1997).

Donald M. Reid is Professor of History at Georgia State University. His publications include The Odyssey of Farah Antun: A Syrian Christian's Search for Secularism (Bibliotheca Islamica, 1981); Lawyers and Politics in the Arab World, 1880-1960 (Bibliotheca Islamica, 1981); and Cairo University and the Making of Modern Egypt (Cambridge University Press, 1990).

Reeva S. Simon is Assistant Director of the Middle East Institute, Columbia University. She is the author of Iraq Between the Two World Wars: The Creation and Implementation of a Nationalist Ideology (Columbia University Press, 1986) and The Middle East in Crime Fiction: Mysteries, Spy Novels, and Thrillers from 1916 to the 1980s (Lilian Barber Press, 1989). She is the editor of The Middle East and North Africa: Essays in Honor of J. C. Hurewitz (Middle East Institute, Columbia University, 1990) and the coeditor of The Origins of Arab Nationalism (Columbia University Press, 1991) and of the  Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East (Macmillan, 1996).

Emmanual Sivan is Professor of History in the Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His publications include Interpretations of Islam: Past and Present (Darwin Press, 1985); Radical Islam: Medieval Theology and Modern Politics (Yale University Press, 1985; enlarged edition, 1990); Mythes Arabes Politiques (Editions Fayard, 1995); and, with J. Winter, War and Remembrance (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).


Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab Middle East