Raphael Israeli taught Islamic, Chinese and Middle Eastern History at Hebrew University, Israel. He received his PhD in Chinese and Islamic History from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974. He is the author of 55 books and some 100 scholarly articles in the fields of Islamic radicalism, Islamic terrorism, the modern Middle East, Islam in China and Asia, and the opening of China by the French. His most recent publications include Death Camps in Croatia: Visions and Revisions (2013); Israel’s Nightmares: Palestinian and Islamic Zombies Haunting Israel (2015); The Internationalization of ISIS (2016); Pisces out of Morocco: the Saga of Clandestine Jewish Emigration (2016); Itinerant Jihadis: Arab and Muslim War Volunteers (2017); and Who is Right and Who is Left: The Fate of Weak Nations among Great Powers (2017), among others.