Dr. Ziva Bak­man-Flamhaft is a lec­tur­er in Polit­i­cal Sci­ence at Queens College/​CUNY, a Ful­bright schol­ar, and a mem­oirist. Her book Israel on the Road to Peace: Accept­ing the unac­cept­able was pub­lished in 1996 (West­view Press). She has also pub­lished arti­cles, book reviews and book chap­ters on the Mid­dle East, Israel, Zion­ism, and women and war, and appeared in pub­lic and on TV.