| GIDEON GERA |
| GIDEON GERA, PhD (Tel
Aviv University, 1978). Retired IDF colonel. Principal Research Associate
Emeritus at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies.
Fields of specialization: current political and strategic issues of the
Middle East, Algeria. On both topics he has published several articles.
Author of Libya under Qadhdhafi (1983, in Hebrew), An Islamic
Republic of Algeria? (1995) and Reflections on the Aftermath of Civil
Strife: Algeria 2005 (forthcoming). email: gidgera@post.tau.ac.il |
| MARTIN KRAMER |
| MARTIN KRAMER, PhD (Princeton University, 1982). Former
Center Director and Principal Research Associate Emeritus at the Moshe
Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. Fields of
specialization: Arab politics and Islamic activism. Author of Islam
Assembled (1986), Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival (1996),
Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America
(2001), and articles on the modern history of the Middle East. Editor of Shi'ism,
Resistance and Revolution (1987), Middle Eastern Lives (1991), The
Islamism Debate (1997), The Jewish Discovery of Islam (1999),
and former editor, Middle East Quarterly. email via his website, http://www.martinkramer.org |
