Über die Autorinnen und Autoren
Mahjoob Zweiri is Head of the Humanities department at Qatar University. Emma C Murphy is Professor of Political Economy in the School of Government and International Affairs, University of Durham. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Other contributors include Ahmet Uysal, Jon W. Anderson, Andreas Musolff, Abdel-mutaleb Al-Zuweiri, Khaled Hajji, Saima Saeed, Fiona McCallum, Fare Braizat and David Berger.
Mahjoob Zweiri is an Assistant Professor in Modern History of the Middle East and Central Asia at the College of Arts and Sciences at Qatar University. He was until recently senior researcher in Middle East Politics and Iran at the Center for Strategic Studies (CSS) at the University of Jordan. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed papers, and is the co-author (with A. Ehteshami) of two books, Iran and the Rise of Its Neoconservatives: The Politics of Tehran's Silent Revolution (I.B. Tauris, 2007) and Iran's Foreign Policy: From Khatami to Ahmadinejad (Ithaca Press, 2008). Emma C. Murphy is Professor of Political Economy in the School of Government and International Affairs, University of Durham. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, and a co-editor of the journal Mediterranean Politics. Her interests in the Arab media stem from the political economy of information and communication technology and she has published articles on this subject in journals such as Third World Quarterly and International Studies Quarterly. Her monographs include Economic and Political Change in Tunisia: From Bourguiba to Ben Ali (Palgrave, 1999) and (co-authored with Clive Jones) Israel: Challenges to Identity, Democracy and the State (Routledge, 2002). Other contributors include Ahmet Uysal, Jon W. Anderson, Andreas Musolff, Abdel-mutaleb Al-Zuweiri, Khaled Hajji, Saima Saeed, Fiona McCallum, Fares Braizat and David Berger.