Arab Responses to Fascism and Nazism: Attraction and Repulsion

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About the Contributors orit bashKin got her PhD from Princeton University (2004) and her BA (1995) and MA (1999) from Tel Aviv University. Her publications include twenty book chapters and articles on the history of Arab Jews in Iraq, on Iraqi history, and on Arabic literature. She has edited a book, Lefasel tarbut be-mitzrayim (Sculpturing culture in Egypt), with Israel Gershoni and Liat Kozma, which includes translations into Hebrew of seminal works by Egyptian intellectuals. She is the author of the following books: The Other Iraq: Pluralism, Intellectuals and Culture in Hashemite Iraq, 1921–1958 (2009) and New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq (2012). haGGai Erlich is a professor emeritus at the Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel-Aviv University, and an academic adviser at the Open University of Israel. His fields of research are Ethiopia ’s modern history and its relations with the Middle East, students and university in the politics of Middle Eastern societies, and modern histories of Egypt and the Nile countries. His recent studies include Islam and Christianity in the Horn of Africa, Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan (2010); Generations of Rage: University and Students in the Middle East (2012, in Hebrew; an English version is forthcoming); and Alliance and Alienation: Ethiopia and Israel during Haile Selassie’s Time (Hebrew and English versions forthcoming). israEl GErshoni is a professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University. Among his latest publications are Narrating the Nile: Politics, Cultures, Identities (2008), coedited with Meir Hatina; Confronting Fascism in Egypt: Dictatorship versus Democ- 356 About the Contributors racy in the 1930s (2010), coauthored with James Jankowski; and the two-volume Dame and Devil: Egypt and Nazism, 1935–1940 (2012, in Hebrew). raMi Ginat is a professor of Middle Eastern studies in the Department of Political Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. His books include The Soviet Union and Egypt (1993), Egypt’s Incomplete Revolution (1997), and Syria and the Doctrine of Arab Neutralism (2005). His most recent books are Egypt and the Second Palestinian Intifada (2011) and A History of Egyptian Communism: Jews and Their Compatriots in Quest of Revolution (2011). JaMEs JanKoWsKi is professor emeritus at the University of Colorado, Boulder. A scholar interested in modern Egyptian history, his publications include Egypt, Islam, and the Arabs (1986), coauthored with Israel Gershoni; Redefining the Egyptian Nation, 1930–1945 (1995), coauthored with Israel Gershoni; Egypt: A Short History (2000); and Nasser’s Egypt, Arab Nationalism, and the United Arab Republic (2002). Mustafa Kabha is chair of the Department of History, Philosophy, and Judaic Studies at the Open University of Israel. His fields of research are Middle East history in the modern era, the history of the Palestinian national movement, and the history of Arab mass communications. His last two books are The Palestinian Press as Shaper of Public Opinion, 1929– 1939: Writing Up a Storm (2007) and The Palestinian Arab In/Outsiders: Media and Conflict in Israel (2011), coauthored with Dan Caspi. Götz nordbruch is a research fellow at the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Brunswick, Germany. He has previously worked as assistant professor at the Centre for Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. His research is focused on the history of Arab-European encounters in the twentieth century. EsthEr WEbMan is a senior research fellow at the Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies and the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism at Tel Aviv University. She is the head of the Zeev Vered Desk for the Study of Tolerance and Intolerance and an editorial board member of Sharqiyya, a journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, and Moreshet, a journal for the study of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism. Her research is focused on Arab discourse About the Contributors: 357 analysis; modern Islamic movements; Muslim-Jewish relations, including Arab anti-Semitism and Arab perceptions of the Holocaust; and Muslims in the West. She is the editor of The Global Impact of a Myth: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (2011). Her book From Empathy to Denial: Arab Responses to the Holocaust, coauthored with Meir Litvak, was the recipient of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy’s book prize for 2010. rEné WildanGEl has been director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Ramallah since January 2012. He studied history in Cologne, Jerusalem , and Damascus...