Gad G. Gilbar is Professor Emeritus of Economic History of the Middle East in Modern Times at the University of Haifa, Israel. His publications include: The Economic Development of the Modern Middle East (Hebrew, 1990); (ed.), Ottoman Palestine, 1800-1914: Studies in Economic and Social History (1990); Population Dilemmas in the Middle East (1997); The Middle East Oil Decade and Beyond (1998); (co-ed.), The Baha'is of Iran, Transcaspia and the Caucasus, 2 vols. (2011).