Israel Gershoni is a professor emeritus of Middle Eastern History in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. His more than two dozen books and hundreds of articles have been published in Hebrew, English, Arabic, German, and Italian. Molly Bernstein is the opinion editor at Haaretz English and an adjunct researcher at Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on the intersection between media and narrative in the Middle East, and on the history of literature written by the Palestinian citizens of Israel.

