Mark LeVine

Mark LeVine is a professor of modern Middle Eastern history and culture at
UC Irvine, a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Center for Middle
Eastern Studies at Lund University, and a senior columnist with al-Jazeera
English. He is the author and editor of almost a dozen books, including
most recently Heavy Metal Islam (Random House), Impossible Peace:
Israel/Palestine since 1989 (Zed Books), One Land, Two States, ISrael and
Palestine as Parallel States (UC Press) and Heavy Metal: Controversies and
Counterculture (Equinox Books), producer of Flowers in the Desert (EMI
2009) and of the award-winning documentary Before the Spring, After the
Fall, and performed and arranged on the Grammy winning Street Signs by
Ozomatli (Concord Records).