Yoram Meital is a professor of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva, Israel. He has written on a wide assortment of research topics that pertain to Arab societies during the modern era. However, the social, cultural, political and economic developments in Egypt have captivated his attention more than any other field. His last book, Revolutionary Justice: Special Courts and the Formation of Republican Egypt, was published by Oxford University Press in 2017. Over the course of many visits to Egypt, he documented the changes to various communal sites (synagogues, schools, libraries, and cemeteries) by means of photographs and written notes. Since 2017, he is serving as the historical consultant to the Jewish community in Cairo and is involved in projects for the preservation of Cairo’s synagogues and the Bassatin cemetery, as well as the establishment of The Library of Egyptian Jewish Heritage in Cairo. His most recent article, titled “A Thousand-Year-Old Biblical Manuscript Rediscovered in Cairo: The Future of the Egyptian Jewish Past,” was published this year by the Jewish Quarterly Review of the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (in which he was a fellow 2019).