Prof. Moshe Sharon, one of the greatest orientalists and scholars of the Middle East alive today.
He served as a professor at the Landegg International University in Switzerland, a research fellow at Oxford.
He was a visiting professor at Princeton, Michigan, Columbia, New York, Maryland, Wayne State and Northwestern universities, as well as at private universities in Japan.
He lectured in the Senate and Congress in Washington and at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and in Finland, and of course he is a professor emeritus at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
He was one of the students and friends of the late Prof. Bernard Lewis.
He wrote dozens of articles and books, and also dealt with the practical aspects of his research subjects in the field, including living for about a year in a Bedouin encampment, and advising Prime Minister Begin and military officials.
