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Contributors Hemda Ben-Yehuda is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Bar Han University, specializing in international relations theory and the analysis of state behavior in crises. Her research , with its particular emphasis on leaders' attitudes in the Arab-Israeli conflict, has appeared in the Journal ofCon/lict Resolution , International Interactions, Review of International Studies, Journal ofPeace Research, and Israel Affairs. Hanita Brand is a Lecturer in Hebrew and Comparative Literature in the Department ofAsian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She has published articles on Hebrew and Arabic literature in English, Hebrew, and Arabic periodicals, among them the Journal ofArabic Literature, Edebiyat, New Observations, Masa, and Noga. Nitza Druyan is the Director of the Long Island Center for Jewish Studies and teaches in the Jewish Studies Program of Hofstra University . She is the author of Without a Magic Carpet: Yemenite Settlement in Eretz-Israel, 1881-1914 (Jerusalem: Yad Yizhak Ben-Zvi and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1981, in Hebrew) and of numerous articles in Hebrew and English on Yemenite Jewry and on ethnic and cultural issues in Israeli society. David C. Jacobson is Associate Professor of Judaic Studies at Brown University. He is the author of Modern Midrash: The Retelling ofTraditional Jewish Narratives by Twentieth Century Hebrew Writers (Albany: State University ofNew York Press, 1987) and Does David Still Play Before You?: Israeli Poetry and the Bible (Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 1997). He is co-editor, with Kamal Abdel-Malek, ofIsraeli and Palestinian Identities in History and Literature (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999). Muhammad Muslih is Associate Professor of Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies at Long Island University, C.w. Post Campus. His publications include The Origins of Palestinian Nationalism 317 318 Contributors (New York: Columbia University Press,1988), Towards Coexistence: An Analysis of the Resolutions of the Palestine National Council (Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1990), and, with A.R. Norton, Political Tides in the Arab World (New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1991). Maen F. Nsour is the Director of the Economic Aid Coordination Department at the Ministry ofPlanning, Amman, Jordan. He is a senior fellow at the Institute ofPublic Policy, George Mason University and an adjunct faculty member ofthe Political Science Department, University ofJordan. His book Economic Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma: The Case ofIsrael and the Arab States is forthcoming in Arabic. Ilan Peleg is Charles A. Dana Professor of Government and Law at Lafayette College. He is the author and editor of several works, including Begin's Foreign Policy, 1977-1983 (Westport, CT: Greenwood , 1987), The Emergence of Binational Israel: The Second Republic in the Making, co-edited with Ofira Seliktar (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1989), Human Rights in the West Bank and Gaza (New York: Syracuse University Press, 1996), and The Arab-Israeli Peace Process: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997). He is a past president oftheAssociation for Israel Studies (1995-1997). David Rodman is free-lance writer whose articles and reviews have appeared in Israel Affairs, International Journal ofIntelligence and Counterintelligence, Armed Forces and Society, SAIS Review, Jerusalem Journal ofInternational Relations, and Midstream. Yaakova Sacerdoti is a Lecturer in Hebrew Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her articles on children's literature have appeared in Sifrut Yeladim ve-Noar. She is the author of On the Crossroad: Research on Dialogue Structure in Children's Literature (Tel Aviv: ha-Kibbutz ha-Meuchad, 1999). (Hebrew) Ofira Seliktar is Ann and Bernard Cohen Associate Professor ofIsrael Studies at Gratz College and a consultant on the Middle East Water Resources Project at the University ofPennsylvania. Her publications on Israel, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and water issues in the Middle East include New Zionism and the Foreign Policy System of Contributors 319 Israel (London: Croom Helm, 1986) and The Emergence of Binational Israel: The Second Republic in the Making, co-edited with Han Peleg (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1989). Her most recent book is Failing the Crystal Ball Test: The Fundamentalist Revolution in Iran (Westport, CT: Praeger, forthcoming). Tobe Shanok is an independent scholar and has been engaged in research on pre-Mandate Eretz YisraellPalestine through the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. Her research interests are the organization and development ofinstitutions, leadership , and economic expansion within the yishuv, 1914-1918. Jeffrey Sosland has lectured in the Department of Government at Georgetown University and conducted research in Israel as a PostDoctoral Fellow at the Hebrew University...

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