Dvir Dimant Author

Yitzhak Reiter is an expert on Islamic, Middle Eastern and Israeli studies. He heads the Department of Israel Studies at the Ashkelon Academic College. Reiter specializes in, inter alia, conflicts in holy places, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israeli Arabs, Middle Eastern politics and Muslim law, and is active in Jewish-Arab dialogue in Israel and indirect peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. His last two books are: Contested Holy Places in Israel-Palestine: Sharing and Conflict Resolution (2017) The Eroding Status Quo: Power Struggles on the Temple Mount (2018) .

Dvir Dimant is a graduate of the Shalem Academic Center in Jerusalem for a BA in Humanistic Studies and Middle East and Islam. Dimand served as a research assistant at the Truman Institute for Peace Research and the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research, and in the Israeli-German Biblica Arabica Project. In recent years he has been involved in the study of Palestinian textbooks at the Impact-SE Institute and research projects on the Muslim World. He is currently a scholar of radical Islam movements around the world. This is a first research book in which he takes part as an author.