Contributors
- Contributors
Shlomo Ben-Ami has served as Israel’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Public Security and Ambassador to Spain. He is author of A Front without a Rearguard: A Voyage to the Boundaries of the Peace Process (Tel-Aviv, 2004) [Hebrew]. His book Scars of War, Wounds of Peace is to be published later this year by Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
Jehoash Hirshberg is a Professor in the Musicology Department at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His recent publications include The Italian Solo Concerto 1700–1760, Rhetorical Strategies and Style History coauthored with Simon McVeigh (Woodbridge, UK, 2004); “Visionen von Osten und westliches Erbe, Ideologische Faktoren bei der Herausbildung einer Israelischen Musik,” in Ekhard John und Heidi Zimmermann (Hrsg), Jüdische Musik? (Köln, 2004).
Haim Kaufman is a lecturer at the Zinman College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences at Wingate Institute for Physical Education and Sport. He is co-editor with Hagai Harif of Body and Sport in Israel in the Twentieth Century (Jerusalem, 2002) [Hebrew].
Gidi Nevo is a researcher at the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism and is a Lecturer of Modern Hebrew Literature in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His book Seven Days in the Negev: Man, Space and Time in S. Yizhar’s “Days of Ziklag” [Hebrew] will be published later this year by Hakibbutz Hame’uchad.
Michael Oren is a senior fellow at the Shalem Center, Jerusalem and a contributing editor of Azure. He is the author of the best-selling history Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Oxford, 2002).
Emanuele Ottolenghi is a Research Fellow in Israeli Politics, Law and Society at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and at the Middle East Centre of St. Antony’s College. His recent publications include “Paradise Lost; A Review of Laurence Silberstein’s ‘The Postzionism [End Page 175] Debates; Knowledge and Power in Israeli Culture’,” Israel Studies, 8(2) (2003); “Explaining Systemic Failure; The Direct Elections System and Israel’s Special Elections of February 2001,” Israel Affairs, 8(3) (2002).
Avraham Sela is the A. Ephraim and Shirley Diamond Professor of International Relations in the Department of International Relations, a Senior Research member at the Harry S. Truman Institute, and Director of the Graduate Program in Contemporary Middle East Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is author of The Palestinian Hamas: Vision, Violence and Adjustment (New York, 2000) (co-authored with Shaul Mishal), and The Decline of the Arab Israeli Conflict: Middle East Politics and the Quest for Regional Order (Albany, NY, 1998).
Ephraim Ya’ar is Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology and Director of the Conflict Resolution and Mediation Program at Tel-Aviv University. His recent publications include “The Cleavage between Jewish and Arab Citizens of Israel” in U. Rebhun and C. I. Waxman (eds), Jews in Israel—Contemporary Social and Cultural Patterns (Hanover and London, 2003); “Jewish Identity, Religious Faith and Observance of Tradition,” co-authored with A. Oren (Tel-Aviv, 2003) [Hebrew]; and “The Oslo Process and Israeli-Jewish Public: A Story of Disappointment?” in J. Ginat, E. J. Perkins, and E. G. Corr (eds), The Middle East Peace Process—Vision versus Reality (Sussex, 2002).
