Prof. Bruce Maddy-Weitzman

Emeritus in Department of Middle Eastern and African History
חוג להיסטוריה של המזרח התיכון ואפריקה אמריטוס

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Current Position and Title:

 Professor,  Dept. of Middle Eastern and African History, and Senior Research Fellow, The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies,Tel Aviv University

Head - International B.A. in Liberal Arts

 

Education:

1981-88---Ph.D.,Tel Aviv University,Middle East History

               "Title of Ph.D. Thesis:  "The Crystallization of an Arab State System:  Inter-Arab Politics, 1945-1954"

1975-77---M.A.,Harvard University, Regional Studies,Middle East

1973-74---The Hebrew University, School for Overseas Students,Israel Studies

1971-75---B.A.,Brandeis University, Politics

Books and Monographs:

Books and Monographs

Amazigh Politics in the Wake of the Arab Spring (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press,  2022).

A Century of Arab Politics: From the Arab Revolt to the Arab Spring (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016).

The Berber Identity Movement and the Challenge to North African States (Austin, TX: Univ. of Texas Press, 2011). http://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/books/madber

The Crystallization of the Arab State System, 1945-1954 (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse UP, 1993).

http://www.amazon.com/Crystallization-System-1945-1954-Contemporary-Issues/dp/0815625804

“Palestinian and Israeli Intellectuals in the Shadow of Oslo and Intifadat al-Aqsa,” Research Series No. 14, The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, Tel Aviv University, 2002.  (84 pp.); and Dayan Center Papers, No. 132 (Dayan Center:  Tel Aviv University, 2003), 78 pp. (in Hebrew). http://www.dayan.org/palestinian-and-israeli-intellectuals-shadow-oslo-and-intifadat-al-aqsa-hebrew

"Middle East States and the Approaching 21st Century," Occasional Paper 98.05, Hellenic Foundation For European and Foreign Policy (also appears in Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal, No.4 December 1997;  http://meria.idc.ac.il).

"The Inter-Arab System and The Gulf War: Continuity and Change," Occasional Papers, Vol. II., No. I, The Carter Center of Emory University, 1991.

"Arab Politics and the Islamabad Conference, January 1980," Occasional Papers, No. 79, Shiloah Institute, Tel Aviv, June 1980.

Edited Volumes:

Inglorious Revolutions: State Cohesion in the Middle East After the Arab Spring (co-edited with Brandon Friedman), (Tel Aviv: The Moshe Dayan Center, 2014).

Nationalism, Identity and Politics: Israel and the Middle East,Studies in Honor of Prof. Asher Susser (co-edited with Meir Litvak) (Tel Aviv: The Moshe Dayan Center, 2014).

Contemporary Morocco: State, Politics and Society under Mohammed VI (with co-editor Daniel Zisenwine) (London: Routledge, 2012). https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415695466

Turkey: Challenges, Prospects and Dynamics, Symposium Proceedings (Tel Aviv: The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, The Süleyman Demirel Program for Contemporary Turkish Studies, 2009).

The Maghrib in the New Century:  Identity, Religion and Politics (with co-editor Daniel Zisenwine), (Gainseville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2007). http://www.amazon.com/The-Maghrib-New-Century-Identity/dp/0813031427

The Camp David Summit: What Went Wrong? Americans, Israelis and Palestinians Analyze the Failure of the Boldest Attempt Ever to Resolve the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (co-editor, with Shimon Shamir), Brighton:  Sussex Academic Press (2005).  http://www.sussex-academic.com/sa/titles/middle_east_studies/ShamirWeitzman.htm

Turkish-Israeli Relations in a Trans-Atlantic Conference:  Wider Europe and the Greater Middle East (co-editor with Asher Susser), Tel Aviv:  The Moshe Dayan Center, 2005.

Religious Radicalism in the Middle East (with co-editor Efraim Inbar), London:  Frank Cass, 1997.  Also appears as special issue of Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol. 8, No. 2, Summer 1996.

Middle East Contemporary Survey, Vol. XXIV,  2000, Tel Aviv:  The Moshe Dayan Center (2002).

Middle East Contemporary Survey, Vol. XXIII,  1999, Tel Aviv:  The Moshe Dayan Center (2001).

Middle East Contemporary Survey, Vol. XXII,  1998,  Boulder CO:  Westview (2001).

Middle East Contemporary Survey, Vol. XXI,  1997,  Boulder CO:  Westview (1999).

Middle East Contemporary Survey, Vol. XX,  1996,  Boulder CO:  Westview (1998)

Middle East Contemporary Survey, Vol. XIX,  1995,  Boulder CO:  Westview (1997).

Middle East Contemporary Survey, Vol. XVIII, 1994 (co-editor, with Ami Ayalon), Boulder CO:  Westview (1996).

Articles:

“Amazigh (pl. Imazighen), a.k.a. Berbers”, Native Nations: The Survival of Indigenous Peoples, vol. 4, Sharlotte Neely and Douglas W. Hume (eds.), Vernon, British Columbia: JCharlton Publishing Ltd, 2024),

“Instrumentalizing Arabism:  Morocco and the Inter-Arab System”, Journal of the Middle East and Africa, Vol. 15, No. 1 (2024), https://doi.org/10.1080/21520844.2024.2304784

“Amazighité vs. `Uruba – Ethnicity in the Maghrib”, Routledge Handbook on the Modern Maghrib, George Joffé (ed.), (London: Routledge, 2023), pp. 208-224.

"Morocco: Social Unrest and Political Stability - For Now," Elie Podeh and On Winkler, (eds.), Between Stability and Revolution: A Decade to the Arab Spring  (in Hebrew)"מרוקו: תסיסה חברתית לצד יציבות פוליטית", בין יציבות למהפכה: עשור לביב ערבי  (Jerusalem: Carmel Publishing, 2021), pp. 342-361.

"Domestication or Transformation? Modern Amazigh identity in the Shadow of the Authoritarian State," Routledge Handbook on Citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa,  Roel Meijer and James Sater (eds.),  (London: Routledge, 2020), pp. 275-90.

"Arab Spring Redux? Takin' it to the Streets in Algeria and Morocco," The American Interest, April 25, 2019 <https://www.the-american-interest.com/2019/04/25/takin-it-to-the-streets-in-algeria-and-morocco/?fbclid=IwAR3fP-kq1pm53Ffdrn7TwBeMpqmZu2ehMaGpx85q8UqSm-yx8x8fWEjelaA

“L’insécurité en périphérie : les revendications socio-économiques et le mouvement Amazigh au Maroc,” in Les Berbères dans la tourmente des "printemps arabes, Thierry Desrues and Mohand Tilmatine (eds.),   (Rabat: Centre Jacques Berque, 2018), pp. 195-213.

The Berbers”, Routledge Handbook of Minorities in the Middle East, Paul S. Rowe (ed.), (London: Routledge, 2018), pp. 313-325.

“Challenging the State, Redefining the Nation: The Contemporary Amazigh Movement in Turbulent Times, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict, Vol. 23, no. 4 (pp. 413-430) https://doi.org/10.1080/13537113.2017.138045.

 “Is the Ethnic Genie out of the Bottle? Berbers and the “North African Spring” Five Years On”, Studi Magrebini, Vol. XIV-XV, 2016-17. Special double issue, “Emerging Actors in Post-Revolutionary North Africa,” Vol 2, “Berber Movements in North Africa: Identity, New Issues, New Challenges”, eds., Anna Maria Di Tolla and Ersilia Francesca., pp. 243-263. 

“A Turning Point? The 'Arab Spring' and the Amazigh Movement,” Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol 38, Issue 14 (November 2015), pp. 2499-2515, http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ERSmFs7aV4r6ZnaDftba/full#.VcDG7vmqqkr

 “On the Backroads of Morocco,” The American Interest, August 31, 2015 <http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/08/31/on-the-backroads-of-morocco/>

“Mobilized Diasporas: Kurds and Berbers in Comparative Perspective,” (co-authored with Ofra Bengio), Kurdish Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1 (October, 2013), pp. 65-90.

"Historic Departure or Temporary Marriage? The Left and the Islamists in Tunisia", Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict: Pathways toward terrorism and genocide, Vol. 5, No. 3 (November 2012), pp. 196-207.

“Arabization and its Discontents: The Rise of the Amazigh Movement in North Africa", Journal of the Middle East and Africa 3(2), (June-December 2012), pp. 109-135.

"The Arab League Comes Alive," Middle East Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 3 (Summer 2012), pp. 71-78. [expanded version, “The Arab League: Response to Regional Revolts,” in Arab Spring and Arab Thaw: Unfinished Revolutions and the Quest for Democracy, John Davis, ed. (Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2013), pp. 179-92.

"Abdelkrim: Whose Hero is He? The Politics of Contested Memory in Today's Morocco" Brown Journal of World Affairs, Vol. XVIII, Issue II (Spring/Summer 2012), pp. 141-49.

E-Note: "North Africa's Democratic Prospects," Foreign Policy Research Institute, December 2011, http://www.fpri.org/enotes/2011/201112.maddy-weitzman.northafrica.pdf,

Also appears in e-book,  “The Best of FPRI’s Essays on the Middle East, 2005-2015”, pp. 74-85  pp. 74-85 http://www.fpri.org/docs/best_of_middle_east_compilation_small_1.pdf

[previously appeared as an E-Note,  December 2011, http://www.fpri.org/enotes/2011/201112.maddy-weitzman.northafrica.pdf]

"Is Morocco Immune to Upheaval", Middle East Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Winter 2012), pp. 87-93.

"Tunisia's Morning After," Middle East Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Summer 2011), pp. 11-17.

Review Article, "Looking Back: Arab Politics During the Formative Years," Bustan: The Middle East Book Review 2,1 (2011), pp. 1-14.

"The Berber Awakening," The American Interest, Summer (May/June) 2011, Vol. VI, No. 5,  pp. 29-35.

E-Note: "Tunisia: Exemplar or Exception?",  Foreign Policy Research Institute, January 2011, http://www.fpri.org/enotes/201101.maddy-weitzman.tunisia.html

"Moroccan Berbers and Israel," Middle East Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Winter 2011), pp. 79-85.

"The Limits and Potential of Israel-Maghreb Relations", IPRIS Maghreb Review, July 2010, pp. 15-18, http://www.ipris.org/?menu=6&page=59

“Arabs vs. the Abdullah Plan”, Middle East Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Summer 2010), pp. 3-12. A Hebrew-language version appears in  Ephraim Lavie (ed.), Israel and The Arab Peace Initiative (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Univ., 2010), pp. 113-24

“Myth, History and Realpolitik: Morocco and its Jewish Community,” co-authored with Samir Ben-Layashi,  Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 9, 1 (March 2010), pp. 89-106, also appears in Moshe Ma’oz (ed.), Muslim Attitudes to Jews and Israel (Brighton:  Sussex Academic Press, 2010), pp. 126-41; and  in Glenda Abramson (ed.) Sites of Jewish Memory.  Jews in and From Islamic Lands in Modern Times (London: Routledge, 2014), pp. 103-120.

“The Arab Perspective,” in Strengthening the Forces of Moderation in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict:  The Role of the European Union after the Gaza War,” (published by The Clingendael Institute (The Hague), and the Truman Institute (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem), October 2009, pp. 15-20.

“Israel-Maghreb Relations:  Realities and Possibilities,” MERIA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 3 (September 2009), pp. 19-23.”

“The Israel-Hamas War:  A Preliminary Assessment,” RUSI Journal, Vol. 154, No. 1 February/March 2009,  pp. 25-28.

“Impervious to a Solution? The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” in Towards Conflict Resolution Best Practice: Report of the 2008 Tswalu Dialogue, 8-11 May, The Royal United Services Institute, pp. 83-94.

"Maghrib Regime Scenarios," Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal, Vol. 10, No. 3 (September 2006), pp. 103-19.

"Ethno-Politics and Globalization in North Africa: The Berber Culture Movement," The Journal of North African Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1 (March 2006), pp. 71-83.

"Women, Islam and the Moroccan State: The Struggle over the Personal Status Law," Middle East Journal, Vol. 59, No. 3 (Summer 2005), pp. 393-410.

“Islamism, Moroccan-Style: The Ideas of Sheikh Yassine,” Middle East Quarterly, Vol. X, No.  1 (Winter 2003), pp. 43-51 [also appears in Political Islam, Vol. 2, Barry Rubin (ed.), (Routledge: NY and London, 2007].

“Contested Identities: Berbers, “Berberism,” and the State in North Africa,” The Journal of North African Studies Vol. 6, No.3 (Autumn 2001), pp. 23-47; [also appears in Middle Eastern Minorities and Diasporas, Moshe Maoz and Gabriel Sheffer (eds.) (Brighton:  Sussex Academic Press, 2002), pp. 153-178].

“Fifty Years of the Inter-Arab System:  Continuity and Change,” (in Hebrew), Hamizrah Hehadash, Vol. XLI, 2000, pp. 74-85.

“The Inter-Arab System and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Ripening for Resolution,” Perceptions, Vol. V, No. 1 (March-May 2000), pp. 44-54.

"Middle East States and the Approaching 21st Century," Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal, No.4 (December 1997); also published as Occasional Paper 98.05, Hellenic Foundation For European and Foreign Policy.

"Israel and Morocco:  A Special Relationship," The Maghreb Review, Vol. 21, Nos. 1-2 (1996), pp. 36-48.

"The Islamic Challenge in North Africa," in Terrorism and Political Violence, Volume 8, No. 2 (Summer 1996) pp. 171-88 [also appears in Religious Radicalism in the Greater Middle East (B. Maddy-Weitzman and E.Inbar, eds., London, Frank Cass, 1997, pp. 171-88; and in Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal, Vol. 1, no. 2.  (July 1997) http://meria.idc.ac.il/journal/1997/issue2/jv1n2a7.html; updated version, written together with Meir Litvak appears in Revolutionaries and Reformers: Contemporary Islamist Movements in The Middle East (B. Rubin, ed., SUNY Press, Albany,  NY,  2003)].

"From Jidda to Cairo:  The Failure of Arab Mediation in the Gulf Crisis," with Joseph Kostiner, Diplomacy & Statecraft, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Summer 1996), pp. 466-490.

"Conflict Resolution in Northwest Africa?  The UN and the Western Sahara," Asian and African Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2 July 1992), pp. 133-51.

"A New Arab Order?  Regional Security After the Gulf War," Orient, 2/93, pp. 221-30. 

"Population Growth and Family Planning in Morocco," Asian and African Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1 (March 1992), pp. 63-79.

"Conflict and Conflict Management in the Western Sahara: Is the Endgame Near?," Middle East Journal, Vol. 45, No. 4 (Autumn 1991), pp. 594-607.

"Jordan and Iraq:  Efforts at Intra-Hashimite Unity," Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1 (January 1990), pp. 65-75.

"Islam and Arabism:  The Iran-Iraq War," The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 4, (Autumn 1982), pp. 181-88.

"The Fragmentation of Arab Politics: Inter-Arab Affairs Since the Afghanistan Invasion," ORBIS, Vol. 25, No. 2, (Summer 1981), pp. 389-407.

 

Chapters in Books:

“Amazighité vs. `Uruba – Ethnicity in the Maghrib”, Routledge Handbook on the Modern Maghrib, George Joffé (ed.), (London: Routledge, forthcoming, 2022). 

 

"Morocco: Social Unrest and Political Stability - For Now," Elie Podeh and On Winkler, (eds.), Between Stability and Revolution: A Decade Since the Arab Spring (in Hebrew)"מרוקו: תסיסה חברתית לצד יציבות פוליטית", בין יציבות למהפכה: עשור לביב ערבי  (Jerusalem: Carmel Publishing, 2021), pp. __

“"Domestication or Transformation? Modern Amazigh identity in the Shadow of the Authoritarian State," Routledge Handbook on Citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa,  Roel Meijer and James Sater (eds.),  (London: Routledge, 2020), pp. 275-90.

"The Berberrs”, Routledge Handbook of Minorities in the Middle East, Paul S. Rowe (ed.), (London: Routledge, 2018), pp. 313-325.

“L’insécurité en périphérie : les revendications socio-économiques et le mouvement Amazigh au Maroc,” in Les Berbères dans la tourmente des "printemps arabes, Thierry Desrues and Mohand Tilmatine (eds.),   (Rabat: Centre Jacques Berque, 2017), pp. 195-213. https://books.openedition.org/cjb/1362.

"Berbers and the Nation-State in North Africa," Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, Thomas Spear (ed.), (Oxford UP: New York, July 2017), 33 pages, DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.105,

“State Cohesion in the Middle East: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives,” co-authored with Asher Susser, in Brandon Friedman and Bruce Maddy-Weitzman (eds.), Inglorious Revolutions: State Cohesion in the Middle East After the Arab Spring  (Tel Aviv: The Moshe Dayan Center, 2014), pp. 13-36.

“Narrating The Past, Serving the Present: The Berber Identity Movement and the Jewish Connection”, in Nationalism, Identity and Politics: Israel and the Middle East. Studies in Honor of Prof. Asher Susser, Meir Litvak and Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, eds. (Tel Aviv: The Moshe Dayan Center, 2014), pp. 103-120.

“Israel and the Middle East in the Wake of the Arab Spring,” in Judaísmo E Cultura: Fronteiras Em Movimento, Helena Lewin (coordenação) (Rio de Janiero: Imprimatur, 2013), pp. 711-16.

“The Arab League: Response to Regional Revolts” [expanded version of The Arab League Comes Alive," Middle East Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 3 (Summer 2012), pp. 71-78], in Arab Spring and Arab Thaw: Unfinished Revolutions and the Quest for Democracy, John Davis, ed. (Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2013), pp. 179-92.

"The Arab Regional System and the Arab Spring," in Change and Opportunities in the Emerging Mediterranean, Stephen Calleya and Monica Wohlfield (eds.) (Malta: Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies, 2012) pp. 82-94.

"The Amazigh Factor: State-Movement Relations Under Muhammad VI," in Contemporary Morocco: State, Politics and Society under Mohammed VI, Bruce Maddy-Weitzman and Daniel Zisenwine, eds. (London: Routledge, , 2012), pp. 109-19.

“Myth, History and Realpolitik: Morocco and its Jewish Community,” co-authored with Samir Ben-Layashi,  Moshe Ma’oz (ed.), Muslim Attitudes to Jews and Israel (Brighton:  Sussex Academic Press, 2010), pp. 126-41; and  in Glenda Abramson (ed.) Sites of Jewish Memory.  Jews in and From Islamic Lands in Modern Times (London: Routledge, 2014), pp. 103-120.

 “Morocco: Controlled Change”, in Regime and Opposition in the Middle East, Esther Webman, ed. (Tel Aviv: Dayan Center, 2010, in Hebrew), pp. 48-55.

“Interpreting the Arab Initiative: The Inter-Arab Context”, in Ephraim Lavie (ed.), Israel and The Arab Peace Initiative (in Hebrew; Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Univ., 2010), pp. 113-24; an English-language version appears as “Arabs vs. the Abdullah Plan”, Middle East Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Summer 2010), pp. 3-12.  

"Berber/Amazigh Memory Work," in The Maghrib in the New Century:  Identity, Religion and Politics, Bruce Maddy-Weitzman and Daniel Zisenwine, eds. (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2007), pp. 50-71.

“Islamism, Moroccan-Style: The Ideas of Sheikh Yassine,” in Political Islam, Vol. 2, Barry Rubin (ed.), (Routledge: NY and London, 2007),  pp. 241-51 (also appears in Middle East Quarterly, Vol. X, No.  1 (Winter 2003).

"Collective Identity in Morocco, in Light of Political Islam and Globalization," in Challenges to the Cohesion of the Arab State, Tamar Yegnes, ed. (Tel Aviv: The Moshe Dayan Center, 2006), pp. 75-88 (in Hebrew); English version, Asher Susser, ed. (Tel Aviv: The Moshe Dayan Center, 2008), pp. 235-52.

"The Maghrib and the Pressure for Liberalization," in Focii of Conflict:  The Middle East, 2004 (Tel Aviv University: The Moshe Dayan Center, 2004), pp. 87-94 (in Hebrew).

"The Status of the Moroccan Woman in Changing Times:  The Struggle over the Personal Status Law," in Women in the Middle East, Between Tradition and Change, Ofra Bengio (ed.),  Dayan Center Papers, # 134 (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 2004), pp. 153-167 (in Hebrew).

“Arab Summit Conferences and the Palestine Problem – “The Collective Gordian Knot put to the Test,” in From Intifada to War: Milestones in the Palestinian National Experience,” Tamar Yegnes, ed. (in Hebrew), (Tel Aviv:  The Moshe Dayan Center, 2003, pp. 29-35.

“Contested Identities: Berbers, “Berberism,” and the State in North Africa,” in Middle Eastern Minorities and Diasporas, Moshe Maoz and Gabriel Sheffer (eds.) (Brighton:  Sussex Academic Press, 2002), pp. 153-78 [also appears in The Journal of North African Studies Vol.6, No. 3 (Autumn 2001) pp. 23-47].

“Islamism and the State in North Africa,” co-authored with Meir Litvak, in Revolutionaries and Reformers: Contemporary Islamist Movements in the Middle East, Barry Rubin (ed.), (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2003), pp .69-89).  (Earlier versions appeared as  "The Islamic Challenge in North Africa," in Terrorism and Political Violence, Volume 8, No. 2 (Summer 1996) pp. 171-88; in Religious Radicalism in the Greater Middle East, B. Maddy-Weitzman and E.Inbar, eds., (London, Frank Cass, 1997), pp. 171-88; and in Middle East Review of International Affairs, Journal, No. 3. (Spring 1997).)

“Why Did Arab Monarchies Fall?  An Analysis of Old and New Explanations,” in Middle East Monarchies: The Challenge of Modernity, Joseph Kostiner (ed.), (Boulder, CO:  Lynne Rienner, 2000), pp. 37-52.

“Family Planning, Tradition and Modernity in North Africa,” in L’emergence d’une nouvelle culture mediterraneene – The Emergence of a New Mediterranean Culture, Maghreb-Mashriq-Israel, Wolfgang Freund (ed.), (Frankfurt Am Main:  Peter Lang, 2000), pp. 49-56.

"Morocco:  Towards the Building of a Civil Society?," in The Maghreb:  Politics, Society, Economy (in Hebrew), Yehudit Ronen (ed.), (Tel Aviv:  The Moshe Dayan Center, 1998), pp. 29-37.

"A New Middle East?  The Arab State System After World War II," in Michael J. Cohen and Martin Kolinsky (eds.), Demise of The British Empire in the Middle East:  Britain's Responses to Nationalist Movements, 1943-1955 (London: Frank Cass, 1998), pp. 79-92.

"The Berber Question in Algeria:  Nationalism in the Making?," in Ofra Bengio and Gabriel Ben-Dor (eds.), Minorities and the State in the Arab World (Boulder, CO:  Lynne Rienner, 1998), pp. 31-52.

"The Damascus Declaration:  An Arab Attempt at Regional Security," co-authored by Joseph Kostiner, Security Regimes: Israel and Its Neighbors, Efraim Inbar (ed.), (NY:  SUNY Press, 1995), pp. 107-25.

"Population and Society in Morocco" (in Hebrew), Demography and Politics in Arab States, Ami Ayalon and Gad G. Gilbar (eds.), (Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1995), pp. 51-67.

"Continuity and Change in the Inter-Arab System," in Gad Barzilai, Aharon Kleiman and Gil Shidlo (eds.), The Gulf Crisis and Its Global Aftermath (Routledge, London, 1993), pp. 33-50.

"Chafing At The Bit: King Abdallah and the Arab League," in Asher Susser/Aryeh Shmuelevitz (eds.), The Hashemites in the Modern Arab World (London: Frank Cass, 1995), pp. 184-97.

"The PLO, the Intifada and the Arab Summit," in Gad G. Gilbar and Asher Susser (eds.), At the Core of the Conflict:  The Intifada (in Hebrew), (Hakibbutz Hameuchad, Tel Aviv, 1991), pp. 149-66.

"Inter-Arab Relations," annual chapters in Middle East Contemporary Survey, volumes IV-XXIV, 1979-2000 (chapters between 1979-1985 were co-authored with Daniel Dishon); (various publishers and editors).

"Morocco," annual chapters in Middle East Contemporary Survey, volumes XVIII-XXIV, 1994-2000 (various publishers and editors).

"Maghreb Affairs," in A. Ayalon, (ed.) Middle East Contemporary Survey, Vol. XVII, 1993 (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995), pp. 83-108.

"Inter-Arab Relations," with Daniel Dishon, in I. Stockman-Shomron (ed.) Israel, the Middle East and the Great Powers (Jerusalem: Shikmona Press, 1984), pp. 277-302.

Encyclopedia Entries

“Ifni,” “Laayoune,” “Melilla,” and updated versions of “Istiqlal Party, Morocco,” “Mahjoub Ben Seddiq,” “Mokhtar Ould Daddah,” “Morocco--Political Parties,” “Mouvement Populaire (MP),” “Parti Democratique de L'Independence (PDI),” “Parti National Democratique (PND),” “Rassemblement National des Independants (RNI),” “Union National d'Etudiants Marocains (UNEM),” “Saharan Arab Democratic Republic,” “Western Sahara War,” in Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, 2nd Edition, Philip Mattar (ed.), (NY: Macmillan,  forthcoming).

 “Berbers,” “Hassan II,” “Morocco,” “Muhammad VI,” “Western Sahara Conflict,” in The Continuum Political Encyclopedia of the Middle East, Avraham Sela (ed.), (London and NY:  Continuum, 2002).

 

“Berbers,” "King Hassan," "Morocco," “Western Sahara Conflict” in Political Encyclopedia of the Middle East, Avraham Sela (ed.), (Jerusalem:  Jerusalem Publishing House Ltd., 1999).

 

“Morocco”; “Tunisia”; “Algeria”; for Encyclopedia Hebraica, Supplement Vol. # Three (in Hebrew), 1995.

 

“Ben Jelloun, Omar;” “Bloc d'Action National;” “Comite de l'Action Marocaine (CAM);” “Communist Party, Morocco (PCM);” “Confederation Democratique du Travail (CDT);” “Front pour la'Defence des Institutions Constitutionelles (FDIC);” “Ibn Musa, Ahmad (Ba Ahmad);” “Istiqlal Party, Morocco;” “Mahjoub Ben Seddiq;” “Mezzian, Muhammad;” “Mokhtar Ould Daddah;” “Morocco--Political Parties;” “Mouvement Populaire (MP);” “Parti Democratique Constitutionel (PDC);” “Parti Democratique de L'Independence (PDI);” “Parti National [Hizb al-Watani li-Tahqiq and Matalib; the National Party for the Realization of Demands];” “Parti National Democratique (PND);” “Polisario;” “Rassemblement National des Independants (RNI);” “Sahara;” “Saharan Arab Democratic Republic;” “Spanish Morocco;” “Tetuan;” “Union National d'Etudiants Marocains (UNEM);” “Wazzani (Ouazzani), Muhammad Hassan el-;” “Western Sahara War;” for Encyclopedia Of the Modern Middle East, Richard W. Bulliet, Phillip Mattar and Reeva S. Simon (eds.), The Middle East Institute, Columbia University/Macmillan, NY, 1996.

 

“Berbers”, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism, John Stone,  Dennis Rutledge Dennis Polly Rizova Anthony Smith  and Xiaoshuo Hou  (eds.) (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016).

Book Reviews

-- The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire, Susan Pedersen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), Fathom (forthcoming).

-- Berber Government: The Kabyle Polity in Pre-Colonial Algeria,  Hugh Roberts, commissioned by Middle East Quarterly, (forthcoming)

-- Popular Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, John Chalcraft (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), Review of Middle East Studies, Volume 51, Issue 2 (August/September 2017).

-- Learning in Morocco: Language Politics and the Abandoned Educational Dream, Charis Boutieri (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016). Middle Eastern Studies Vol. 53, No. 3 (May 2017), (DOI: 10.1080/00263206.2016.1246359), pp. 502-04.

--Two Arabs, A Berber and a Jew: Entangled Lives in Morocco, Lawrence Rosen (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2015), The American Interest (http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/04/21/the-moroccan-difference/).

-- Operation Mural: An Englishman and the Mossad in Casablanca, David G. Littman, (NY: RVP Press, 2015), Israel Journal of Foreign Relations (March 3, 2016, DOI: 10.1080/23739770.2016.11383512016).

-- We Are Imazighen: The Development of Algerian Berber Identity in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture, Fazia Aïtel, (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2014), Middle East Quarterly, Vol. 23, No.1 (Winter 2016).

-- The Rise and Fall of al-Qaeda, Fawaz A. Gerges (Oxford University Press, 2011, for The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, Journal of ISSEI, Volume 20, Issue 4, May 2015, pp. 418-419.

--- Picturing Algeria, Pierre Bourdieu (NY: Columbia UP, 2012), for The  European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, Journal of ISSEI, Vol. 19 (published online, December 12,  2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2014.990271), pp. 1-2.

-- Encountering Morocco: Fieldwork and Cultural Understanding, David Crawford and Rachel Newcomb (eds.); Afterword by Kevin Dwyer (Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 2013), Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 50, No. 6 (October 2014), pp. 1032-38.

--  Everyday Arab Identity, Christopher Phillips (London: Routledge, 2013)  Bustan (5, 2014), pp. 55-62.

-- Forgotten Saints. History, Power, and Politics in the Making of Modern Morocco, Sahar Bazzaz, Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2010, Mediterranean Historical Review, 28:1 (2013), pp. 86-89.

-- Western Sahara, War Nationalism and Conflict Irresolution, Stephen Zunes and Jacob Mundy, Syracuse University Press, 2011,  Middle East Quarterly, 20:2 (Spring 2013), p. 96.

-- Berbers and Others, Beyond Tribe and Nation in the Maghrib Katherine E. Hoffman and Susan Gilson Miller (eds.), (Bloomington, IA: Indiana UP, 2011), in H-Africa, H-Net Reviews. June, 2011. URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=32530.

-- Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed. Martin Evans & John Phillips, (New Haven and London, Yale UP, 2007), in "The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms" Journal of ISSEI, 17:2 (April 2012), pp. 267-68.

-- Being Arab:  Arabism and the Politics of Recognition, Christopher Wise and Paul James, editors. (North Carlton, Australia: Arena Publications, 2010), in Journal of Intercultural Studies, Vol. 32, No. 1 (February 2011), pp. 100-103.

-- Goals for Galilee: The Triumphs and Traumas of the Sons of Sakhnin, Israel's Arab Football Club, Jerold Kessel and Pierre Klochenlder, (London: JR Books, 2010), Ha'aretz, English Book Supplement,  December 2010.

-- The Foreign Policies of Arab States:  The Challenge of Globalization, Bahgat Korany and Ali E. Hillal Dessouki (eds.), (Cairo, New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2008), and Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President, The Saban Center at Brookings and the Council on Foreign Relations (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institute Press, 2008), in Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 46, No. 3 (May 2010), pp. 461-69.

 --Hamas:  A Beginner's Guide, Khaled Hroub (London, Pluto Press, 2006), in Ha'aretz (English edition), January 5, 2007.

--The Foreign Policies of Middle East States, Raymond Hinnebusch and Anoushiravan Ehteshami (eds.), (Boulder and  London, 2002), in Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 41, No. 6 (November 2005), pp. 1005-1009.

--Israel and the Maghrib:  From Statehood to Oslo, Michael M. Laskier, (Gainseville, FL, 2004), in The Journal of North African Studies, Vol. 10, No. 2 (July 2005), pp. 234-238.

--Israel:  The First Hundred Years, Volume II, From War to Peace, Ephraim Karsh (ed.), (London and Portland, OR), in Mediterranean Historical Review, Vol. 19, No. 2 (2004), pp. 92-96.

--History of Israel’s War of Independence, Vol. III, Uri Milstein, (Lanham, MD and Oxford, 1998), in International --Jordanian-Palestinian Relations:  Where To?  Four Scenarios for the Future, Mustafa Hamarneh, Rosemary Hollis and Khalil Shikaki (London, 1997), in Mediterranean Politics, Vol. 4, No.1 (Spring 1999),  pp. 143-45.

--Fabricating Israeli History:  The New Historians, Efraim Karsh (London and Portland, OR, 1997), The Jerusalem Report, November 27, 1997.

--Israel's Border Wars: 1949-1956, Benny Morris (Oxford, 1993) in The Jerusalem Report, April 21, 1994.

--Stalemate:  Great Power:  The War of Attrition and Great Power Diplomacy in the Middle East, 1967-1970,  David A. Korn (Boulder, San Francisco, and Oxford, 1992), in Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 29, No. 3 (July 1993),  pp. 597-99.

--Collusion Across the Jordan, Avi Shlaim (Oxford, 1987), in Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2, (April 1990), pp. 261-264.

 

Other Publications/Scholarly Activities:

-- Editor, TEL AVIV NOTES (2006-; www.dayan.org).

-- Editor, Middle East News Brief (2009-2013; www.dayan.org).

“Israel and Algeria: Protests, Politics, and Colonialism”, Fikra Forum, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, July 28, 2023 <https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/israel-and-algeria-protests-politics-and-colonialism>

-- “Summit or Siesta?”, The Jerusalem Report, April 17, 201.

-- “Six Years On.” The Jerusalem Report, March 6, 2017.

-- “What’s Next for Sisi’s Egypt?”The Jerusalem Report, February 6, 2017.

-- “The End of an Alliance?” The Jerusalem Report, January 9, 2017

-- “The Moroccan Grind”, The Jerusalem Report, November 15, 2016

-- “A Drumbeat of Negative Commentary”, The Jerusalem Report, October 31, 2016

-- “Indefinite Agony”, The Jerusalem Report, October 16, 2016.

--“Can Jordan Contain the Jihadi Threat?”, The Jerusalem Report, July 25, 2016

-- “How Far Can They Go?,” The Jerusalem Report, June 27, 2016.

-- “Lebanon: Teetering on the Edge,” The Jerusalem Report, May 30, 2016.

-- “The Saudi Conundrum,” The Jerusalem Report, May 2, 2016

-- “Tough Times in Amman,” The Jerusalem Report, April 4, 2016.

--  “Between Alliance and Rivalry,”  The Jerusalem Report, March 8, 2016.

-- “Riyadh and Tehran on a Collision Course”, The Jerusalem Report, February 8, 2016.

-- “Polling for Power,” The Jerusalem Report, December 14, 2015.

-- “On the Margin,” The Jerusalem Report, November 16, 2015.

-- “As Syria Hemorrhages,” The Jerusalem Report, October 19, 2015.

-- “Syria: Hints of an endgame,”  The Jerusalem Report, September 21, 2015.

-- “Coping With an Ascendant Iran”, The Jerusalem Report, August 24, 2015.

-- “Brothers in Arms,” The Jerusalem Report, May 4, 2015.

-- “Arabs Apathetic to Israeli Election,” The Jerusalem Report, April 6, 2015.

-- “Yemen Blues”, The Jerusalem Report, March 9, 2015.

--“The Clash Within,” The Jerusalem Report, February 9, 2015.

--“Two Revolutions, Two Outcomes,” The Jerusalem Report, January 12, 2015.

-- “Reconstructing Gaza”, The Jerusalem Report, November 17, 2014.

-- “The Qatar Conundrum”, The Jerusalem Report, October 20, 2014.

-- “ISIS: Apocalypse Now”? The Jerusalem Report, September 22, 2014.

-- “Dueling Mediators”, The Jerusalem Report, August 25, 2014.

-- “Sisi’s Moment”, The Jerusalem Report, June 30, 2014.

-- “Election Fever”, The Jerusalem Report, June 2, 2014.

-- “Exercise in Futility,” The Jerusalem Report, May 5, 2014.

-- “Watching Ukraine”, The Jerusalem Report, April 7, 2014.

--“Two Constitutions, Two Directions,” The Jerusalem Report, March 10, 2014.

-- “The Arab Reaction” The Jerusalem Report, February 10, 2014.

-- "Jihadist Islam and the Arab Spring", The Jerusalem Report, January 13, 2014,

-- “Alarm Bells in Riyadh”, The Jerusalem Report, December 16, 2013.

-- “Similar Fates,” The Jerusalem Report, November 7, 2013.

-- “Syrian Stalemate”, The Jerusalem Report, October 7, 2013.

-- “The Failure of Democracy”, The Jerusalem Report, September 9, 2013.

-- “Egypt is too big to Ignore,” The Jerusalem Report, August 12, 2013.

--“Maghreb Malaise,” The Jerusalem Report, June 17, 2013.

--“No Magic Syrian Solution”, The Jerusalem Report, June 3, 2013.

--“Post-Revolution Blues,” The Jerusalem Report, May 6, 2013.

--“It’s Complicated,” The Jerusalem Report, April 8, 2013.

-- “Rumblings Across the River”, The Jerusalem Report, December 17, 2012.

-- “Entangled in Syria”, The Jerusalem Report, November 5, 2012.

-- “Bellweather Tunisia, The Jerusalem Report, October 8, 2012.

--"From Sinai to Cairo: Mursi makes his move", The Jerusalem Report, September 10, 2012.

--“Cohabitation, Egyptian-Style”, The Jerusalem Report, July 16, 2012.

-- “Reading Riyadh,” The Jerusalem Report, June 18, 2012.

-- “Poor Prospects for Egypt,”  The Jerusalem Report, May 21, 2012.

-- "The Damascus Puzzle",  The Jerusalem Report April 18, 2012.

--"The Arab League Confronts Assad," The Jerusalem Report, March 14, 2012.

--"Hell No, I Won't Go", The Jerusalem Report, February 13, 2012.

--"Which Way Egypt?", The Jerusalem Report, January 15, 2012.

--"Preparing for the Post-Assad Era," The Jerusalem Report, December 19, 2011.

--"Shalit and the Region", The Jerusalem Report, November 21, 2011.

-- "Tunisia After the Elections: The Democratic Paradox", Tzomet Hamizrah Hatichon, Vol. 1, No. 11, November 8, 2011 (in Hebrew).

-- "Tunisia: The Next Phase",  Euromesco/IMED Brief No. 19, November 2011 <http://www.euromesco.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1271:euromesco-brief-19-tunisia-the-next-phase-&catid=62:euromesco-briefs&Itemid=49&lang=en>

--"Arab Spectators," The Jerusalem Report, October 24, 2011.

-- "Handle With Care", The Jerusalem Report, September 26, 2011.

-- "Libya’s Berbers: The New Factor in Post-Gaddafi Politics," PajamasMedia, August 26, 2011 <http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/libyas-berbers-the-new-factor-in-post-gaddafi-politics/>  

-- "Riyalpolitik", The Jerusalem Report, August 29, 2011

--"Arab Spring, Moroccan Style", The Jerusalem Report, August 1, 2011

--"Summer Time, And the Livin' Ain't Easy", The Jerusalem Report, July 4, 2011.

-- "Polling Post-Mubarak Egypt", TEL AVIV NOTES,  5 (9), May 11, 2011.

--"The Spring of Arab Discontent", The Jerusalem Report, May 10, 2011.

--"Power to the People? Not So Fast", The Jerusalem Report, April 12, 2011.

- "Arab Societies Strike Back,"         The Jerusalem Report, March 14, 2011.

--"The Arab Order Undermined," The Jerusalem Report, February 14, 2011.

--"The Egyptian Dilemma", The Jerusalem Report, January 17, 2011

--"Thanks or Angst?", The Jerusalem Report, December 20, 2010.

--"Ahmedinajad in Lebanon", The Jerusalem Report, November 22, 2010.

--"Polling the Arab Public", The Jerusalem Report, October 25, 2010.

-- "Lebanonization of Iraq", The Jerusalem Report, September 27, 2010.

--"Keeping the Lid on Lebanon," The Jerusalem Report, August 30, 2010.

--"The Fayyadism Illusion," The Jerusalem Report, August 2, 2010.

--"Turkey's Return, Cairo's Concern", The Jerusalem Report, July 5, 2010.

--"Asad Comes In From The Cold", The Jerusalem Report, June 7, 2010.

--"The Impotent Summit", The Jerusalem Report, May 10, 2010.

--"Egypt:  Edging Towards Succession" The Jerusalem Report,  April 12, 2010.

--“Arab Felix No More, The Jerusalem Report,  March 15, 2010.

- “Triangle Alliance Troubles”, The Jerusalem Report,  February 15, 2010.

--“Sounds From North Africa”, The Jerusalem Report, January 18, 2010.

--“What if the Palestinians Were to Declare Independence?, The Jerusalem Report, December 21, 2009.

--“Not Much to Celebrate,” The Jerusalem Report, November 23, 2009.

- “Regional Influentials”, The Jerusalem Report, October 26, 2009.

- “Holding a Harsh Mirror to the Arab World,” The Jerusalem Report, September 30, 2009.

- “Reshuffling the Cards,” The Jerusalem Report, July 6, 2009.

- “Grand Strategies and Muddled Realities,  The Jerusalem Report, June 8, 2009

- “Iran’s Thrust into the Arab Heartland,” The Jerusalem Report, May 11, 2009.

-  “Regulating Arab Politics (2): The Doha Arab League Summit”, with Joseph Kostiner,

   TEL AVIV NOTES, April 7, 2009, The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies.

--“A Pebble in the Peace Pond,” The Jerusalem Report,  January 5, 2009.

--“Lebanon and the Weakening of the Arab Order,”  TEL AVIV NOTES, May 22, 2008.

--“The Broken Triangle:  Cairo-Riyadh-Damascus,” TEL AVIV NOTES, March 9, 2008.

--"Slouching Towards Annapolis," TEL AVIV NOTES, October 31, 2007.

--"An Arab Quartet?,"  TEL AVIV NOTES, January 14, 2007,

--"Things Aren't What They Used To Be:  The Khartoum Arab Summit Conference,"  TEL AVIV NOTES  NO. 166, April 9, 2006.

--"Patrons, Clients and Shepards:  The Sharm al-Shaykh Summit,"  TEL AVIV NOTES, NO. 124, February 13, 2005.

--"The Election of Abu Mazen: Will it Make a Difference?" CiPS E-Briefing Paper 04/2005, Center for International Political Studies, University of Pretoria.

--"Egypt in Search of a Role," TEL AVIV NOTES, NO. 116, November 22, 2004.

--"Iraqi History versus American Idealism (co-authored with Ofra Bengio), TEL AVIV NOTES, NO. 73, March 30, 2003.

--“Israeli Elections:  Another Fork in the Road,?” Bitterlemons.org, Palestinian-Israeli Crossfire, December 16, 2002, Edition 45.

--The Arab World and the Coming Israeli Elections,” TEL AVIV NOTES, NO. 54, November 14, 2002.

--“The Spanish Moroccan "Crisis" and the Future of Euro-Med Relations: Farce or Harbinger of Things to Come?,” TEL AVIV NOTES, NO. 46, July 31, 2002.

 --“The Amman Arab Summit Conference:  The Collective and the Particular,” TEL AVIV NOTES, No. 15, April 4, 2001.

--“The Arab World and the Aqsa Intifada,” TEL AVIV NOTES, No. 4, November 23, 2000.

  "From Hassan to Mohammed:  A New Era for Morocco," POLICYWATCH NO. 401, July 30, 1999, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

--“The Arab World and the Arab-Israeli Peace Process” (co-authored by Joseph Kostiner), Research Report No. 1, 1993, Institute of Jewish Affairs, London.

--Morocco, research report published by the Institute for Jewish-Arab Affairs (in Hebrew), Beit Berl, 1991.

--Study Group Member, The West Bank and Gaza: Israel's Options for Peace, Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv, 1989.

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