Mark LeVine is a professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. He's also a religious scholar and a musician. He received his B.A. in comparative religion and biblical studies from Hunter College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from New York University's Department of Middle Eastern Studies. He speaks Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, and Persian, as well as Italian, French and German. Wikipedia
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Biography by Scott Yanow Mark Levine has long mastered the unusual double of piano and valve trombone, being equally skilled on both instruments. www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:l1u06j7h7180
