Editorial Preface

Editors: Mustafa Kabhah, Ronen Yitzhak
Editorial Secretary: Yoni Graff

THE MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF ISRAEL
President and Chairman of the Executive Committee: Michael Laskier
Manager: Yoni Graff
C.P.A.: Ghassan Kharouba
Legal Advisor: Uri Shtendel
Executive Committee: Ehud Toledano, Tel-Aviv University; Elie Podeh, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman, The Open University of Israel; Dafna Poremba, Sapir College; Yuval Ben-Bassat, University of Haifa; Joseph Mann, Bar-Ilan University; Nimrod Hurvitz, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Ronen Yitzhak, Western Galilee College.

Editorial Board: Haggai Erlich, chair, The Open University; Aref Abou Rabia, Ben-Gurion University; Yoav Alon, Tel Aviv University; Yoav de Capua, University of Texas, Austin; Joshua Teitelbaum, Bar-Ilan University; Erez Naaman, American University, Washington DC; Reuven Amitai, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Ido Shahar, University of Haifa.