Gil Anidjar
Gil Anidjar is Associate Professor in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. He is the author of 'Our Place in al-Andalus': Kabbalah, Philosophy, Literature in Arab Jewish Letters (Stanford UP, 2002), The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy (Stanford UP, 2003) and Semites: Race, Religion, Literature (Stanford UP, 2008). He edited Jacques Derrida's Acts of Religion (Routledge, 2002) and is currently completing a manuscript entitled Blood: A Critique of Christianity.