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Gema Martín Muñoz was born in Madrid in 1955.  She has a doctorate in Arabic and Islamic Studies and is a professor in Sociology of the Arabic and Islamic world in the Autónoma University of Madrid.  She frequently gives lectures on this topic, and has been a visiting professor at the universities of Harvard, Roma Tre, Georgetown, Teherán, Mexico, Havana, El Quds (Palestine), Cairo, and Algiers.  Among her most recent publications are Islam, Modernism and the West (1999), El estado árabe. Crisis de legitimidad y contestación islamista (The Arabic State. Crisis of Islamic Legitimacy and Reply) 2000, and Percepciones sociales y culturales entre España y Marruecos (Social and Cultural Perceptions Between Spain and Morocco) 2001.  She is a regular collaborator in press, such as the newspaper El País and the magazine Claves de razón práctica.