Dale F. Eickelman is Ralph and Richard Lazarus Professor of Anthropology and Human Relations at Dartmouth College. Since the late 1960s, he has conducted extensive field research in the Middle East, particularly North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. His publications include Public Islam and the Common Good, co-edited with Armando Salvatore (Brill, 2004); The Middle East and Central Asia: An Anthropological Approach, 4^th  ed. (Prentice Hall, 2002); New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere, 2^nd ed., co-edited with Jon W. Anderson (Indiana University Press, 2003); Muslim Politics, co-authored with James Piscatori (Princeton University Press, 1996) [Bulgarian edition, Miusiulmanskata Politika, translated by Ina Merdjanova (Praxis, 2002)]; Russia’s Muslim Frontiers: New Directions in Cross-Cultural Analysis, editor (Indiana University Press, 1993); Muslim Travelers: Pilgrimage, Migration and the Religious Imagination , co-edited with James Piscatori (University of California Press, 1990); Knowledge and Power in Morocco (Princeton University Press, 1985); Moroccan Islam (University of Texas Press, 1976); and numerous scholarly articles and contributions to edited books. A former President of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, he is also Relationship Coordinator of the American University of Kuwait—Dartmouth College Project.