Gudrun Krämer, professor of Islamic Sciences at the Free University of Berlin since 1996, worked as a specialist in Middle Eastern issues (1982-1994) at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (Science and Politics Foundation) in Ebenhausen bei München. Her teaching career has spanned Hamburg, Cairo, Bologna, Paris and Bonn. br/>Siglo XXI has published her monumental History of Palestine. From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel.