Gil Anidjar teaches in the Department of Religion and the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. Among his books are The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy (Stanford UP, 2003) and, most recently, Qu’appelle-t-on destruction? (Heidegger, Derrida) (Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2017).