The Call of the Homeland

Emeritus Professor Allon Gal is a historian, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. His recent major publication (chief editor) is World Regional Zionism: Geo-Cultural Dimensions (Hebrew), 3 volumes (2009).

Athena S. Leoussi, PhD (LSE), is Co-Director of European Studies at the University of Reading, UK, Visiting Senior Fellow in the Department of Government, LSE, and co-editor of Nations and Nationalism. She has published extensively on nationalism, including Nationalism and Ethnosymbolism (edited with Steven Grosby, 2006).

Anthony D. Smith is Emeritus Professor of Ethnicity and Nationalism at LSE, UK. He is President of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, and Editor-in-Chief of Nations and Nationalism. His most recent book is Ethnosymbolism and Nationalism (2009).