Ami AyalonAmi Ayalon is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. His scholarly interest focuses on the cultural and political history of Arabic-speaking societies in modern times, with a recent accent o the entry of printing into the Middle East and its wider implications. Ayalon has published numerous studies on these subjects, including Language and Change in the Arab Middle East (1987), The Press in the Arab Middle East: A History (1995) and Reading Palestine: Printing and Literacy, 1900–1948 (2004). Read More Read Less