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Mark LeVine
Mark LeVine is professor of history at University of California Irvine and chair of the programme in Global Middle East Studies. A 2020–21 Guggenheim fellow, he is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, including Why They Don’t Hate Us: Lifting the Veil on the Axis of Evil (Oneworld, 2005), Heavy Metal Islam (Random House, 2009), Impossible Peace: Israel/Palestine since 1989 (Zed Books, 2009), Islam and Popular Culture (University of Texas Press, 2016) and We’ll Play Till We Die: Journeys across a Decade of Revolutionary Music in the Muslim World (University of California Press, 2022). He is also producer, among other projects, of Flowers in the Desert (album, EMI, 2009) and Before the Spring, After the Fall (film, Bonne Bioche, 2013) and co-founder of the refugee music organization Kakuma Sound (Kakuma-Sound.org).
Contact: Department of History, University of California Irvine, Krieger Hall 220, Irvine, CA 92697-3275, USA.