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Ethnic politics in the Levant: A fresh perspective on the political careers of Zaki al-Arsouzi, Sule
Article published in: Meir Litvak and Bruce Maddy-Weitzman (editors), Nationalism, Identity and Politics: Israel and the Middle East –...
Middle Eastern Studies: A Celebration
Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 50, no. 6 (2014), page 851. The late Elie Kedourie and his wife Sylvia G. Haim (Kedourie) have had a...
Bold decisions: Three Israeli Prime Ministers who went against their grain
Israel’s short and turbulent political history is punctuated by critical decisions both taken and not taken by its leaders. In 1948,...
Israel and the Changing Middle East
Middle East Memo, no. 34 (Brookings, 29 January 2015) Complexity and ambivalence are inherent in Israel’s relationship with its Middle...
Israel and the Middle East’s Grim Realities
COMPLEXITY and ambivalence are inherent in Israel’s relationship with its Middle Eastern environment. Gaining a more than basic...
The Syrian Civil War Comes to the Druze
The American Interest, June 2015 After years of steering clear of the fight, Syria’s Druze are now in danger of being drawn into the...
Israel’s Last Founding Father
Project Syndicate, September 28, 2016 TEL AVIV – In 2006, a year before Shimon Peres was elected as Israel’s president, Michael Bar-Zohar...
Egypt’s Role in the Middle East: The View from Jerusalem
The Caravan, March 13, 2017 During the past sixty years, Israel’s relationship with Egypt completed a full cycle. In the late 1950’s in...
After the airstrike, what Washington should do next in Syria
MARKAZ - Brrokings, April 17, 2017 A week later, the raid launched by President Trump on a Syrian air force base in response to yet...
Is Iran pursuing its own version of Sykes-Picot in the Middle East?
MARKAZ, May 11, 2017 In 2012 and 2013 when the “Arab Spring” gave way to the “Arab Turmoil,” the term “the end of Sykes-Picot” came into...
50 Voices 50 Years
May 2017 Fifty years later, Israel lives and copes with the mixed consequences of the Six Day War. The war ended a grave crisis,...
Syria and the Six-Day War: A 50-years perspective
Markaz, Tuesday, May 30, 2017 From 1963 to 1967, the radicalization of Syrian politics and the frailty of the Syrian state played a major...
Theater and Politics in Oslo
Jewish Review of Books, Summer 2017 In November 1995, the Dayton Agreement was signed, ending the war in Bosnia. This major achievement...
Egypt resumes a leadership role
The Times of Israel, August 21, 2017 One of the important byproducts of the recent turn of events in the Syrian crisis has been the role...
In Memoriam: Sadiq Jalal al-ʿAzm, 1934–2016
Published in: Bustan: The Middle East Book Review, Vol. 8, No. 1 (2017), pp. 104-109 Bustan’s commitment to scholarly review in the...
The Syrian crisis: A reckoning and a road map
Published in Markaz, the Brookings Institute, September 12, 2017 The tide in the Syrian civil war has clearly shifted. After capturing...
Trump’s Early Steps in the Middle East
Published in Horizons, issue no. 9, Austomn 2017 THE WORLD is obsessed with Donald Trump: his persona, his style, the policies he has...
The struggle for Syria, Chapter Two
The Brookings Institution, February 20, 2018 In 1965, the British writer Patrick Seale published his classic “The Struggle for Syria:...
The Rabin Assassination as a Turning Point in Israel’s History
Israel Studies, vol. 23, no. 3 (Fall 2018), pp. 25-29. The assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on November 4, 1995, clearly...
Israel and the Arab World
The Oxford Handbook of Israeli Politics and Society Edited by Reuven Y. Hazan, Alan Dowty, Menachem Hofnung, and Gideon Rahat Subject:...
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