Fruma Zachs Author & Editor

Fruma Zachs is Professor of Middle East History at the University of Haifa, Israel. She is the author of The Making of a Syrian Identity: Intellectuals and Merchants in Nineteenth-Century Beirut and co-editor of Ottoman Reform and Muslim Regeneration (I.B.Tauris). Sharon Halevi is a senior lecturer of history and director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at the University of Haifa, Israel. She is a founding member of the Israel Association of Feminist and Gender Studies, and holds a PhD from the University of Iowa.