Uriya shavit biography of rory

Arab scholar Uriya Shavit's take on the clash of civilizations.

By RUTHIE BLUM LEIBOWITZ

Uriya Shavit is not what you'd expect in an editor and columnist at the Hebrew daily, Makor Rishon.

It's not that he doesn't wear a kippa. In spite of paper's reputation as a right-wing, pro-settler periodical, a number of its staff members, contributors and readers are not observant. Nor is Shavit's young age and even younger looks what sets him apart.

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At 32, the Arab affairs scholar - who divides his time between teaching at Tel Aviv University, doing research at the Moshe Dayan Center, where he is a fellow, and putting out MR's weekend magazine - is probably somewhere within the overall average.

What is particularly striking about Shavit and what distinguishes him from his colleagues at MR is his worldview - more precisely his take on the Middle East and the West, and on the roots of and solutions to the raging conflict between them.

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