Editorial Preface

Editors: Prof. Amalia Levanoni, Prof. Mustafa Kabha, Dr. Ronen Yitzhak
Editorial Secretary: Yoni Graff

THE MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF ISRAEL
President and Chairman of the Executive Committee: Michael Laskier
Secretary: Yoni Graff
C.P.A.: Ghassan Kharouba
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; Mahmud Yazbak, University of Haifa; Joseph Mann, Bar-Ilan University; Nimrod Hurvitz, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Ronen Yitzhak, Western Galilee College; Yoni Graff, Representative of the Research Students

Editorial Board: Haggai Erlich Chair, Iris Agmon, Reuven Amitai, Israel Gershoni, Mustafa Kabha, Yoram Meital, Elie Podeh, Uzi Rabi, Uri Rubin, Tal Shuval, Itzchak Weismann, Onn Winckler, Dror Zeevi, Mahmud Yazbak