Stuart Arden, is an award-winning film director who has lived in Israel for more than thirty years. He was a free-lance director at Israel Television’s Arabic Department (IBA) for over fifteen years; and for over twenty years has been teaching at adult education centers and colleges where Arabs and Jews are a part of the student body. Some of the material in this book has been heard in lecture forums both in Israel and the United States, in radio and television interviews, and some chapters (greatly expanded for this book), previously appeared elsewhere in print.