Contributors
- Contributors
Doris Gray teaches in the Women's Studies Program and the Department of Modern Languages-French and Francophone Studies at Florida State University in Tallahassee. She taught at Al Akhawayn University in Morocco for two years. Prior to entering academia, she worked for more than a decade as a foreign correspondent based in Kenya and South Africa. Her research interest is on women in Africa, including North Africa, African women in the diaspora, social and cultural change, and Islam.
Kamran Rastegar is a lecturer in Arabic and Persian at the University of Edinburgh. He has previously taught in the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University and researches the cultural histories of the modern Middle East and Europe, with a particular interest in social conflict and literature in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He also researches topics relating to contemporary cinemas of Iran and the Arab world.
Ishak Saporta is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Management at Tel Aviv University. His research interests include discrimination in employment, industrial relations, and stratification in education. His work has been published in the American Journal of Sociology, Industrial Relations, and Work and Occupations.
Cyrus Schayegh is an assistant professor of modern Middle Eastern history at the American University of Beirut. His research interests include the history of biomedical and social sciences and of social transformations in modern Iran, as well as the history of smuggling and state and border formations in Mandatory Lebanon and Palestine.
Yossi Yonah is an associate professor in the Department of Education at Ben Gurion University and a senior research fellow with the Jerusalem Van Leer Institute. Professor Yonah’s research interests include moral and political philosophy, the philosophy of education, and multiculturalism. His recent book, In Virtue of Difference: The Multicultural Project in Israel, was published in 2005.
