Gideon Aran – Tinker, tailor, terrorist, freedom fighter

After a welcome hiatus, the subject of terrorism is back in the headlines. The kidnapping and murder of three yeshiva students in the territories, and afterward the burning alive of a Palestinian youth from East Jerusalem, generated pain, frustration, anger and protest on both sides.

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Gideon Aran is a professor of Sociology & Anthropology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He studies both religion and extremism, and particularly their intersection, in Israel, in past and present Judaism, and in comparative perspective. Aran's research is based mainly on ethnographic fieldwork. In recent years his writing and teaching focus on fundamentalism, sects, cults and radical groups, religious violence, terrorism. Aran's forthcoming book concerns suicide bombing, especially in the Middle East.

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Professor Gideon Aran

Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology

Hebrew University

Jerusalem

Israel 91905

Email: gideon.aran@mail.huji.ac.il

Phone: 972-2-5883331 (Office)

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