Israel Gershoni
Curriculum Vitae
September 2007
Education
1953-64
Elementary and high school education, Kibbutz Hulata
1964-65
College (one-year program), Kibbutz cAyn Harod
1969-72
BA, Department of the History of Muslim Countries,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (magna cum laude)
1973-74
MA, Department of the History of Muslim Countries,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1974-77
PhD, Department of the History of Muslim Countries,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Military Service
1966-69
Compulsory Service, Golani Brigade
1969-96
Reserves
Israel Gershoni / 2
Professional Experience
1970-73
Secretary, Israel Oriental Society
1976-78
Instructor and Lecturer, Department of the History of the Middle Eastern
Countries, University of Haifa
1978-82
Lecturer, Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv
University
1981-82
Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1982-87
Senior Lecturer, Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv
University
1983-84
Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Department of History, University of Colorado,
Boulder, Colorado, USA
1984-86
Advisor, Middle Eastern Graduate Studies, Aranne School of History, Tel
Aviv University
1985-present Instructor, Overseas Student Program, Tel Aviv University
1987-95
Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel
Aviv University
1989-90
Senior Associate Member, Middle East Centre, St. Antony‟s College, Oxford
University, England
12/1991
Co-organizer and Chair of international workshop on “Cultural Processes in
Muslim and Arab Societies: Medieval and Modern Eras,” Tel Aviv University
and Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem ( with Ehud R. Toledano)
1992-93
Co-organizer and Chair of international research seminar on “Rethinking
Nationalism” within the framework of the Program for Comparative
European History, Tel Aviv University (with Shulamit Volkov)
1992-99Founder, Organizer and Chair of “Forum Gabriel Baer,” monthly academic
workshop on the social and cultural history of Muslim and Arab societies; the
primary scholarly forum of the Israel Oriental Society / The Middle East &
Islamic Studies Association of Israel
Israel Gershoni / 3
9/1994
Co-organizer and Chair of “Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab World, 19201990,” National Endowment for the Humanities Workshop, University of
Colorado, Boulder, USA (with James P. Jankowski)
1994-95
Head of Professional Committee, History Section, Israel Science Foundation,
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
1994-present Full Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv
University
1995-96
Research Fellow, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, within the framework
of its program, “Learning and Literacy: The Transmission of Tradition and
Knowledge from Antiquity to the Present,” and the Department of History at
the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
1/1996
Co-organizer of international workshop on the “Formation and Transmission
of Tradition in Muslim Societies,” Tel Aviv University (with Ehud R.
Toledano and Ursula Woköck)
Summer 1996 Senior Associate Member, Middle East Centre, St. Antony‟s College, Oxford
University, England
5/1997
Co-organizer and Chair of international workshop on “The Nile: Histories,
Cultures, Myths,” Tel Aviv University and Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem
(with Haggai Erlich)
5/1999
Co-organizer and Chair, international workshop on “New Approaches to the
Study of Ottoman and Arab Societies (18th to mid-20th centuries),” held at
Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey (with Ursula Woköck and Hakan
Erdem)
9/1999
Chair, Council for Higher Education Admissions Committee for the Graduate
Program in Middle Eastern Studies for Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva
Israel Gershoni / 4
3/2002
Member, Fulbright Selection Committee for postdoctoral fellowships for
study in the USA
5/2002
Co-organizer and Chair, international workshop on “Twentieth Century
Historians and Historiography of the Middle East,” Boğaziçi University,
Istanbul, Turkey (with Amy Singer and Hakan Erdem)
8/2002
Adviser, MacArthur Foundation, USA
10/2003
Elected member, World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES)
Council
2003-04
Member, Middle Eastern History Committee, Israel Science Foundation,
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
2004-05
Fellow, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina,
USA
2005-06
Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
5/2006
Organizer, international workshop on “Narrating the Nile, Cultures,
Identities, Memories,” held at Tel Aviv University and Open University,
Israel
5/2007
Co-organizer and chair, “Absent Spheres, Silent Voices: Recovering Untold
Histories,” held at Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey (with Amy Singer
and Hakan Erdem)
Referee for the Israel Science Foundation, Hamizrah Hehadash, Jamaca, Zmanim, Teoria ve
Bikoret, and (through 1996) Asian and African Studies
Referee for academic presses: Cambridge University Press, Columbia University Press,
University of Florida Press, Duke University Press, Routledge Curzon
Referee for professional journals: Middle Eastern Studies, International Journal of Middle
East Studies, Mediterranean Historical Review, and Nations and Nationalism
Israel Gershoni / 5
Editorial-board member of Cambridge University Press‟s Middle East Studies series (19962006), and of the H-Net Network on contemporary Middle Eastern affairs
Professional Societies
Member, Middle East Studies Association of North America (since 1976)
1992-100
Member, Israel Oriental Society (since 1970) / The Middle East & Islamic
Studies Association of Israel
Grants and Awards
1977-80
Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
1980-82
Basic Research Foundation, Tel Aviv University
1983-84
Fulbright fellowship for Visiting Scholars in the USA
1986-88
Basic Research Foundation, Tel Aviv University
1991-94
Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
1994
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant for international
workshop “Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab World, 1920-1990,”
University of Colorado, Boulder, USA (with James P. Jankowski)
1994-97
Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
1997-2000
Israeli-American Binational Science Foundation (BSF) (with James P.
Jankowski)
2000-03
Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
2003-06
Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
2007-2010
Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Israel Gershoni / 6
Selection of Courses and Seminars Taught, last five years (MA- and PhD-level courses
only) (all courses based on extensive readings in Arabic)
The Evolution of Nationalism in Modern Egypt
Arab Nationalism in the Modern Middle East
Ottomanism and Arabism in Ottoman Greater Syria, 1860-1914
Ottomanism and Egyptianism in Egypt, 1882-1919
Egyptian Intellectual History and Egyptian Intellectuals in Modern Egypt, Nineteenth and
Twentieth Centuries
Intellectual History, Intellectuals, Society and Culture in Egypt, 1892-1952
The Evolution of Political Islamic Radicalism in the Modern Middle East, 1920s-1970s
Nationalism in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East: Comparative Perspectives, Theories,
and Methods
History, Historians and Historical Thought in the Modern Era: Europe — Judaism and Islam
Publications
Books
Egypt Between Distinctiveness and Unity: The Search for National Identity, 1919-1948 (Tel
Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1980) (Hebrew).
The Emergence of Pan-Arabism in Egypt (Tel Aviv: Shiloah Center for Middle Eastern and
African Studies and Syracuse University Press, 1981).
Co-author with James P. Jankowski, Egypt, Islam, and the Arabs: The Search for Egyptian
Nationhood, 1900-1930 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987; digital edition,
2000).
Hawiyyat Misr bayna al-Arab wa‟l-Islam (Cairo: Dar Sharqiyyat, 1999) (Arabic), translation
of Egypt, Islam, and the Arabs; with an introduction by translator Badr al-Rifāci.
Co-editor with Ehud R. Toledano, Cultural Processes in Muslim and Arab Societies, vol. 1,
“Medieval and Early Modern Periods,” special issue, Poetics Today 14, no. 2; vol. 2,
Israel Gershoni / 7
“Modern Period I,” special issue, Poetics Today 14, no. 3; vol. 3, “Modern Period II,”
special issue, Poetics Today 15, no. 2.
Co-author with James P. Jankowski, Redefining the Egyptian Nation, 1930-1945,
Cambridge Middle East Studies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995;
paperback edition, 2002).
Co-editor with James P. Jankowski, Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab Middle East (New
York: Columbia University Press, 1997; hardcover and paperback editions).
Light in the Shade: Egypt and Fascism, 1922-1937, Ofakim series (Tel Aviv: Am Oved,
1999) (Hebrew).
Licht in der Dunkelheit, Ägypten und der Faschismus, 1922-1937 (forthcoming 2009).
(German); translation of Light in the Shade: Egypt and Fascism, 1922-1937, translated
by Dirk Sadowski.
Co-author with Orit Bashkin and Liat Kozma, Sculpting Culture in Egypt: Cultural
Planning, National Identity and Social Change in Egypt, 1890-1939 (Tel Aviv: Ramot
Press, 1999) (Hebrew).
Co-editor with Haggai Erlich, The Nile: Histories, Cultures, Myths (Boulder: Lynne Rienner,
1999).
Co-editor with Yaakov Elman, Transmitting Jewish Traditions: Orality, Textuality and
Cultural Diffusion (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000).
Co-editor with Ursula Woköck and Hakan Erdem, Histories of the Modern Middle East:
New Directions (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2002).
Co-author with James P. Jankowski, Commemorating the Nation: Collective Memory,
Public Commemoration, and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Egypt, Chicago
Studies on the Middle East series (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, November
2004).
Pyramid for the Nation: Memory, Commemoration and Nationalism in Egypt, 1891-2003,
Ofakim series (Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 2006) (Hebrew).
Israel Gershoni / 8
Co-editor with Amy Singer and Hakan Erdem, Middle East Historiographies: Narrating the
Twentieth-Century (Seattle: Washington University Press, 2006).
Forthcoming books
Co-editor with Meir Hatina, The Nile Valley: Politics, Identities, Cultures (under contract,
Lynne Rienner Publishers, forthcoming 2008).
Egypt in the Second World War: Democracy, Fascism, Nazism, and Nationalism in Egyptian
Public Discourse, 1938-1945, (in preparation, manuscript, Hebrew and English).
Articles
“The Arab Nation, the Hashemite Dynasty and Greater Syria in the Writings of cAbdallah,”
Hamizrah Hehadash 25 (1975): 1-26 (part 1), 161-83 (part 2) (Hebrew).
“Religion and Nationalism in the Teachings of the Salafi Movement in Egypt,” Hamizrah
Hehadash 26 (1976): 181-202 (Hebrew).
“King Abdallah‟s Concept of a „Greater Syria,‟ ” in The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and
the West Bank, ed. Anne Sinai and Allen Pollack (New York: American Academic
Association for Peace in the Middle East, 1977), 139-47.
“Major Trends in the Evolution of the Egyptian National Self-Image, 1900-1950,” in
Occasional Papers on the Middle East, No. 14 (Haifa: Institute of Middle Eastern
Studies, University of Haifa, 1977), 1-35.
“The Revival of Islam as an Impetus to the Emergence of Arabism: The Egyptian Salafiyya
and the Rise of Arabism in Pre-Revolutionary Egypt,” Occasional Studies on the Modern
Middle East, No. 67 (Tel Aviv: Shiloah Institute, 1979), 57 pp. (Hebrew).
“Arabization of Islam: The Egyptian Salafiyya and the Rise of Arabism in Pre-Revolutionary
Egypt,” Asian and African Studies 13 (1979): 22-57.
“Arab Unity in the Egyptian National Consciousness, 1936-1939,” Hamizrah Hehadash 28
(1979): 182-94 (part 1); 29 (1980): 1-31 (part 2) (Hebrew).
Israel Gershoni / 9
“New Pasts for New National Images: The Perception of History in Modern Egyptian
Thought,” in Self-Views in Historical Perspective in Egypt and Israel, ed. Shimon Shamir
(Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press, 1981), 51-58.
“The Emergence of Pan-Nationalism in Egypt: Pan-Islamism and Pan-Arabism in the
1930s,” in “Studies in Islam, Nationalism and Radicalism in Egypt in the Twentieth
Century,” special issue, Asian and African Studies 16 (1982): 59-94.
“Between Ottomanism and Egyptianism: The Evolution of „National Sentiment‟ in the
Cairene Middle Class as Reflected in Najib Mahfuz‟s „Bayn al-Qasrayn,‟ ” in “Studies in
the Social History of the Middle East in Memory of Professor Gabriel Baer,” special
issue, Asian and African Studies 17 (1983): 227-63, republished in Studies in Islamic
Society—Contributions in Memory of Gabriel Baer, ed. Gabriel R. Warburg and Gad G.
Gilbar (Leiden: Brill, 1985), 227-63.
“Egyptian Intellectual History and the Egyptian Intellectuals in the Inter-War Period,” Asian
and African Studies 19 (1985): 333-64.
“The Muslim Brothers and the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936-1939,” Middle Eastern
Studies 22 (1986): 367-97.
“The Arab League as an Arab Enterprise,” Jerusalem Quarterly 40 (1986): 87-101.
“The Role of Periodicals in Shaping the Intellectual and Cultural Life of Egypt between the
Two World Wars,” Bulletin of the Israeli Academic Center in Egypt 8 (Spring 1987): 5-8.
An expanded version of the article appeared in A New Look at Egypt, ed. Erez Biton
(Ramat Gan: Apirion, 1989), 151-54 (Hebrew).
“Rejecting the West: The Image of the West in the Muslim Brothers‟ Teachings, 19281939,” in The Great Powers in the Middle East, 1919-1939, ed. Uriel Dann (New York:
Holmes and Meier, 1988), 370-90.
“The Evolution of National Culture in Modern Egypt: Intellectual Formation and Social
Diffusion, 1892-1945,” Poetics Today 13, no. 2 (1992): 325-50.
“Imagining the East: Muhammad Husayn Haykal‟s Changing Representation of East-West
Relations, 1928-1933,” Asian and African Studies 25 (1992): 209-51.
Israel Gershoni / 10
“Imagining and Reimagining the Past: The Use of History by Egyptian Nationalist Writers,
1919-1952,” History and Memory 4, no. 2 (1992): 5-37.
Co-author with Ehud R. Toledano, “Methodological Introduction” to three-issue special
series on “Cultural Processes in Muslim and Arab Societies,” Poetics Today 14, no. 2
(1993): 240-45.
“The Egyptian Nationalist Movement—A Self-Portrait, 1904-1919,” Asian and African
Studies 27 (1993): 313-41.
“The Reader: „Another Production.‟ The Reception of Haykal‟s Biography of Muhammad
and the Shift of Egyptian Intellectuals to Islamic Subjects in the 1930s,” Poetics Today
15, no. 2 (1994): 241-77.
“An Intellectual Source for the Revolution: Tawfiq al-Hakim‟s Early Works and Their
Influence on cAbd al-Nasir and His Generation,” in Egypt from Monarchy to Republic: A
Reassessment of Revolution and Change, ed. Shimon Shamir (Boulder: Westview Press,
1995), 213-49.
“The Intellectual‟s Dilemma: Muhammad Husayn Haykal‟s Return to the East, 1927-1933,”
Bulletin of the Israeli Academic Center in Egypt, No. 19 (June 1995): 26-32.
Co-author with James P. Jankowski, “Hawiyyat Misr bayna al-Arab wa‟l-Islam,” al-Qahira
158 (January 1996): 181-94 (Arabic).
“Rethinking the Formation of Arab Nationalism in the Middle East, 1920-1945: Old and
New Narratives,” in Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab Middle East, ed. Israel Gershoni
and James P. Jankowski (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), 3-25.
“The Return of the East: Muhammad Husayn Haykal‟s Recantation of Positivism: 19271930,” in Middle Eastern Politics and Ideas: A History from Within, ed. Ilan Pappé and
Moshe Ma‟oz (London: I. B. Tauris, 1997), 21-73.
“Confronting Nazism in Egypt—Tawfiq al-Hakim‟s Anti-Totalitarianism, 1938-1945,” Tel
Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte 26 (1997): 121-50.
Co-author with James P. Jankowski, “Print Culture, Social Change, and the Process of
Redefining Imagined Communities in Egypt, Response to the Review by Charles D.
Israel Gershoni / 11
Smith of Redefining the Egyptian Nation (International Journal of Middle East Studies
29/4 (1997), pp. 606-622),” International Journal of Middle East Studies 31, no. 1
(1999): 81-94.
“Egyptian Liberalism Reassessed: Muhammad cAbdallah cInan‟s Response to German
Nazism: 1933-1935,” Jamaca 4 (1999): 31-68 (Hebrew).
“Tawfiq al-Hakim against Mussolini and Hitler, 1938-1945,” Zmanim 17, no. 67 (1999): 6278 (Hebrew).
“Geographers and Nationalism in Egypt: Huzayyin and the Unity of the Nile Valley, 19451948,” in The Nile: Histories, Cultures, Myths, ed. Haggai Erlich and Israel Gershoni
(Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1999), 199-215.
“Egyptian Liberalism in an Age of „Crisis of Orientation‟: al-Risala‟s Reaction to Fascism
and Nazism, 1933-1939,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 31, no. 4 (1999):
551-76.
“Intellectuals as Prophets of Modern Culture: Cultural Planning, Cultural Production, and
Cultural Transmission in Egypt, 1890-1939,” in Sculpting Culture in Egypt, by Orit
Bashkin, Liat Kozma, and Israel Gershoni (Tel Aviv: Ramot, 1999), 9-60 (Hebrew).
“Secondary Intellectuals as Reproducers of Modern National Culture in Egypt,” in
Transmitting Jewish Traditions: Orality, Textuality and Cultural Diffusion, ed. Yaakov
Elman and Israel Gershoni (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 324-47.
“Beyond Anti-Semitism: Egyptian Responses to German Nazism and Italian Fascism in the
1930s,” EIU Working Papers, Mediterranean Programme Series, RSC No. 2001/32
(2001), 26 pp.
“Reconstructing Tradition: Islam, Modernity, and National Identity in the Egyptian
Intellectual Discourse, 1930-1952,” Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte 30
(2002): 156-211.
“Remembering World War II Egypt: A Political Memory, a Literary Memory and an
Historical Memory,” in The Middle East between the World Wars, ed. Haggai Erlich (Tel
Aviv: Open University Press, 2003), 363-72 (Hebrew).
Israel Gershoni / 12
“Art and Nationalism: Mahmud Mukhtar and the Unveiling of the Statue „Revival of Egypt‟
(Nahdat Misr),” Igeret—The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities 25 (November
2003) (Hebrew).
“Mediterraneanism in Egyptian National Thought,” in A Mediterranean Anthology, ed.
Yaakov Shavit (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 2004), pp. 371-395 (Hebrew).
“„Der verfolgte Jude‟: Al-Hilals Reaktionen auf den Antisemitismus in Europa und Hitlers
Machtergreifung,” in Blind für die Geschichte? Arabische Begegnungen mit dem
Nationalsozialismus, ed. Gerhard Höpp, Peter Wien and René Wildangel (Berlin, 2004),
pp. 39-72.
“Laying the Foundation: Education, Islam, and Modernity in the Early Teachings of the
Young Hasan al-Banna, 1927-1930,” in Madrasa: Education, Religion and State in the
Middle East. Festschrift in honor of Professor Michael Winter, ed. Ami Ayalon and
David J. Wasserstein (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press, 2004), pp. 147-174.
“The Theory of Crisis and the Crisis in a Theory, Intellectual History in Twentieth-Century
Middle Eastern Studies,” in Middle East Historiographies: Narrating the TwentiethCentury, ed. Israel Gershoni and Amy Singer (Seattle: Washington University Press,
2006). pp. 131-182.
“Dallo Stato alla nazione e dalla nazione allo Stato in Egitto. Il ruolo dello Stato nella
formazione del nazionalismo e quello el nazionalismo nella formazione dello Stato
(1805-1952) in Dopo l’Impero Ottomano: Stati-nazione e comunità religiose, ed. Anna
Baldinetti and Armando Pitassio (Viale Rosario Rubbettino, 2006). pp. 81-97.
Entry: “cAbbas Hilmi II,” Encyclopaedia of Islam, third edition, (Leiden, Brill, 2007) part 1.
Forthcoming articles
“Liberal Democracy versus Fascist Totalitarianism in the Egyptian Intellectual Discourse:
The Case of Salama Musa and al-Majalla al-Jadida,” in Rethinking Liberalism in the
Mediterranean and the Arab Middle East, ed. Christopher Schumann (Erlangen,
forthcoming 2008).
Israel Gershoni / 13
“Intellectual Crisis or Ideological Reorientation in Egypt, 1930-1956: The Case of
Muhammad Husayn Haykal,” in Moises Starosta Memorial Lectures, 2nd ser., ed. Joseph
Geiger (Jerusalem: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, forthcoming 2008) (Hebrew).
“Cultural Planning and Counter-Planning: The Case of Young Hasan al-Banna and the
Formation of the Society of the Muslim Brothers,” in Festschrist for Professor Itamar
Even Zohar, ed. Gideon Touri and Rakefet Shefi Sela (Tel Aviv, forthcoming 2008).
“The Persecuted Jew: al-Hilal‟s Response to the Rise of Nazism in early 1930s Germany,”
in Festschrist for Professor Sasson Somekh, ed. David Wasserstein (Tel Aviv,
forthcoming 2007).
“Monumental Sculpture and National Culture: The Construction of the Commemorative
Statue of Mustafa Kamil, 1914-1940,” in The Formation of National Culture in Egypt:
Social, Cultural and Ideological Trajectories, eds. Walter Armbrust, Ronald Nettler and
Lucie Ryzova, special issue of Maghreb Review (Oxford, forthcoming, 2008).
English version of the Italian, (forthcoming) “From State to Nation and from Nation to State,
the Egyptian Case: The Role of the State in the Formation of Nationalism and the Role of
Nationalism in the Formation of the State, 1805-1952”. In Festricht for Professor Butrus
Abu Manneh, ed. by Atallah Qabti, (Haifa, forthcoming 2009)
Arabic version of the German, (forthcoming) “Al-Yahudi al-Mutarid: Radd Fi„al Majallat alHilal „ala Mu„adat al-Samiyya fi Urubba wa-Wusul Hitlar ila al-Sulta.” In Ziad Mouna
(ed.), (Damascus, 2009)
Reviews and review articles
“Nasirism in the Messianic Labyrinth,” Zmanim 1 (1979): 98-101 (Hebrew).
“The Messianic Nature of Nasirism,” Mibifnim 42 (1980): 367-78 (Hebrew).
“General History in the Era of Specialized History,” Zmanim 5 (1985): 96-98 (Hebrew).
Review of The Writing of History in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, by Jack A. Crabbs, Jr.
(Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1984), Middle Eastern Studies 23 (1987): 542-47.
Israel Gershoni / 14
Review of Tinker, Tailor, and Textile Worker: Class and Politics in Egypt, 1930-1952, by
Ellis Goldberg (Berkeley: California University Press, 1986), Contemporary Sociology:
An International Journal of Reviews 18, no. 4 (1989): 537-38.
Review of A Fabian in Egypt: Salamah Musa and the Rise of the Professional Classes in
Egypt, 1909-1939, by Vernon Egger (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1986),
International Journal of African Historical Studies 23 (1990): 746-51.
Review of Arab History and the Nation-State: A Study in Modern Arab Historiography,
1820-1980, by Youssef M. Choueiri (London: Routledge, 1989), Middle Eastern Studies
27 (1991): 523-28.
Review of Trends and Issues in Contemporary Arab Thought, by Issa J. Boullata (Albany:
State University of New York Press, 1990), Middle Eastern Studies 28 (1992): 606-16.
Review of Egypt’s Other Wars: Epidemics and the Politics of Public Health, by Nancy
Elizabeth Gallagher (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1990), Bulletin of the Middle
East Studies Association 26, no. 1 (1992): 57-59.
Review of The Palestinian Uprising, by Robert F. Hunter (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1991), The Historian 55, no. 4 (1993): 749-51.
Review of Contemporary Egypt: Through Egyptian Eyes—Essays in Honour of P. J.
Vatikiotis, ed. Charles Tripp (London: Routledge, 1993), Middle Eastern Studies 31
(1995): 174-80.
Review of The Last Khedive of Egypt: Memoirs of cAbbas Hilmi II, by Amira Sonbol (Reading,
UK: Ithaca Press, 1998), International History Review 22, no. 3 (2000): 665-67.
Co-author with Shlomo Zand, “On the Power of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Power,”
review essay of Orientalism, by Edward Said, on the occasion of the publication of the
Hebrew translation, Ha’aretz, weekend edition, September 15, 2000 (Hebrew).
Review of Pan-Arabism before Nasser: Egyptian Power Politics and the Palestine
Question, by Michael Doran (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), American
Historical Review 106, no. 1 (2001): 301-3.
Israel Gershoni / 15
Review of Najib Mahfuz: The Novelist-Philosopher of Cairo, by Menahem Milson (New
York: St. Martin‟s Press, 1998), Hamizrah Hehadash 43 (2002): 355-61 (Hebrew).
Review of Preparation for a Revolution: The Young Turks, 1902-1908, by M. Şükrü
Hanioğlu (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), American Historical Review 108,
no. 1 (2003): 304-5.
Review of Adeed Dawisha, Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: From Triumph to
Despair (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003), American Historical Review 108,
no. 5 (2003): 1564-65.
Review of Whose Pharaohs? Archaeology, Museums and Egyptian National Identity from
Napoleon to World War I, by Donald Reid (Berkeley: University of California Press,
2002), International Journal of Middle East Studies 36 (2004): 125-27.