On 2 October 2007, I spoke with Prof. Dror Ze’evi, Senior Lecturer in the
Department of Middle Eastern Studies at BenGurionUniversity and President of The Middle
East & Islamic Association of Israel. He is the author of An Ottoman
Century: The District of Jerusalem in the 1600s, and more recently Producing
Desire: Changing Sexual Discourse in the Ottoman Middle
East, 1500-1900. He also writes periodically on current issues
for the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth.
We spoke
about the situation in the Gaza Strip, US/Israeli relations, the issue of
academic and economic boycott, rising tensions between Israel, Syria
and Iran,
and the prospects for war or peace in the region.
The
following are the personal views of Prof. Ze’evi, and do not necessarily
reflect the positions of The Middle East & Islamic Association of Israel.
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