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Reuven Paz was born and grew up in Israel. He graduated his academic education in Haifa University in the fields of Arabic language and literature and Middle Eastern Studies, specializing on Islam and modern Islamic thought, and is fluent in written and spoken Arabic. Most of his studies, research, and field of experience in the past 35 years focused on Islam, Islamic culture, Islamic radicalism, development of radical Islamic doctrines, all over the world, and Palestinian society both in Israel and the Palestinian Territories. His research combines academic work with a long field experience. In 2003, he founded the Project for the Research of Islamist Movements (PRISM – www.e-prism.org) in the GLORIA Center at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel, which he directs. PRISM focuses on research in the field of Islamic radical movements and ideology and global Jihad. In 2006, PRISM has opened a special research project for radical Islam in Africa, and in 2007 a research project on Islamist social affairs. Reuven Paz has published so far dozens of articles in the fields of Palestinian society and politics, global Jihad, and radical modern phenomena in Islam. He also gave 18 expert testimonies in courts in cases that involved terrorism. His forthcoming book is on “The Mindset and Culture of Global Jihad.”