Ofra Bengio

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Ofra Bengio participated in numerous conferences and workshops, speaking on the following subjects: "Turkey's Change of Heart Towards Israel: Causes and Implications,"  at a Round Table on Turkey-Israel Relations, INSS and East-West Institute Mission to Turkey, Iraq & Israel,  in October 2010; and "From Survival to Revival: Can Iraqi Kurdistan be a Model of Stability for the Region?," in  Peace Operations and State Building International Initiatives and Local Responses,  Conférence Internationale Tel Aviv, the following month. Also in November, Bengio spoke on, “A Decade of Transformation in the Middle East,” at an International Conference on Israel and the Middle East at the University of Tomsk, Siberia, Russia. Bengio also participated in a workshop on Turkey’s Foreign Relations, at the INSS in March. In April, she lectured on “Turkish-Israeli Relations, the Israeli View,” at a conference in Barcelona on Turkish-Israel Relations: The Role of the EU and the Impact in the Mediterranean. Also in April, Bengio lectured on “The Changing Strategic Map of the Middle East,” to Visiting Fulbright Professors in Israel. Later, in May, she spoke about “Iraqi Dilemmas of Changing Identities,” at Tel Aviv University's Gulf Workshop. In June Bengio delivered a lecture titled, “At a Crossroad: The Kurds in the Aftermath of the Elections,” at an INSS conference on The Elections in Turkey: Regional and Bilateral Implications. Later that month she participated in The Israeli Presidential Conference 2011: Facing Tomorrow, and spoke at a session on, "Between Cairo and Tehran: Will We Miss the Old Middle East?" She also spoke on "Turkey and the Kurdish Dilemma," at a conference on Turkey’s Strategic Direction Following Elections, at Netanya Academic College in July. Bengio lectured on "Kurdistan, A Window on the World," at the Bedirkhan Conference on, "From Kurdistan to Paris: Establishing Cultural Bridges between the Kurds and French," in Sevres, France, in July 2011.

Email: bengio@post.tau.ac.il

Books

The Turkish-Israeli Relationship: Changing Ties of Middle Eastern Outsiders, 2nd edition (NY:  Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

Türkiye İsrail: Hayalet İttifaktan Stratejik İşbirliğine (İstanbul: Erguvan Yayınevi, 2009).

The Turkish-Israeli Relationship: Changing Ties of Middle Eastern Outsiders (NY:  Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).

Saddam's Word: Political Discourse in Iraq (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).

Saddam’s Iraq:  Political Discourse and the Language of Force (Tel Aviv, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1996, in Hebrew).

The Kurdish Revolt in Iraq (Tel Aviv, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1989, in Hebrew).

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Journal Articles (a selected list)

"Babylon versus Zion: Changing Iraqi Perceptions of Israel," Ortadoĝu Etüdleri, 1/2 (January 2010).

"Turkey’s Quiet Revolution and Its Impact on Israel", Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs,  IV: 1 (2010).

"Iraq's New Political Elites: A Dream Come True?", Ofra Bengio, MERIA Journal Vol. 13, No. 4 (December 2009).

"Babylon versus Zion: Changing Iraqi Perceptions of Israel," Ortadogu Etudleri, 1/2 (January 2010).

"Building Regional Peace: Iraq and the Kurds", MERIA Journal, September 2009.

"Ramifications of Iraq’s Kurdish Elections", The Jerusalem Report 31 August, 2009.

With Sherko Kirmanj, "Elections in the Kurdistan Regional Government: A Model Democracy or Back to Factionalism?", Hawlati, 19 July 2009, p. 15 (in Kurdish)

"Turkey's Changing Role", Proceedings of Conference: Strengthening the Forces of Moderation in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: the Role of the European Union after the Gaza War, Truman Institute (Jerusalem), in collaboration with the Clingendael Institute (The Hague).

"Altercating Interests and Orientations between Israel and Turkey: A View from Israel", Insight Turkey, 11/2 (Spring 2009).

"Orhan Veli Kanık", Ruah Mizrahit, 6 (Spring 2008).

"The New Iraq: Towards Disintegration or Confederation?", Diyunim Bevitahon Le'umi, 23 – The Future of the Middle East, BESA, January 2008 (pp. 53-58, in Hebrew)

"The Others: Leopold Weiss and Nissim Sosa", Pe'amim, 111-112, 2007 (pp. 243-253, in Hebrew)

Exporting Democracy: What Have We Learned from Iraq?
Dissent, Spring 2007.

וייטנאם לא גרמניה
מעריב, 20.7.2007

האחרים: לאופולד וייס ונסים סוסה
פעמים 111-112 (תשס"ז), עמ' 243-253.

"Autonomy in Kurdistan in Historical Perspective"
The Future of Kurdistan, 2005

Iraqi Kurds: Hour of Power?
The Middle East Quarterly
, Summer 2003, Vol. 10, No.3

"The New  Iraq: Challenges for State-Building"
presented to the workshop “Europe and the Middle East after the Iraq risis” on March 30 , 2003 in Bologna

"Iraqi Reflections of the Crisis"
A lecture given on February 19, 2003 in the second international "Jerusalem Conference" on Israel, the Middle East and Islam, in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

"Pitfalls of Instant Democracy," (From Michael Eisenstadt and Eric Mathewson [eds.], U.S. Policy in Post-Saddam Iraq: Lessons from the British Experience, published by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy).

Saddam Husayn's Novel of Fear 
The Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2002, Vol. 9, No.1

Couldn't Be Worse?
The National Interest, Winter 2001/02, No.66

A Republican Turning Royalist? Saddam Husayn and the Dilemmas of Succession
Journal of Contemporary History, October 2000, Vol. 35, No. 4

How Does Saddam Hold On?
Foreign Affairs, July/August 2000, Vol. 79, No. 4

Ba'thi Iraq in Search of Identity: Between Ideology and Praxis
Orient, 4/87, 1987

השיעים בעיראק בצבת הדת והמדינה
מחאה ומהפכה באסלאם השיעי, 1985

Shi'is and Politics in Ba'thi Iraq
Middle Eastern Studies, January 1985, Vol. 21, No. 1

Iraq: 1976 – 1999 Volumes I – XXIII, Middle East Contemporary Survey

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Chapters in Books (a selected list)

"The Kurdish Phoenix: Nation Building in a Failed Nation- State", In Amatzia Baram (ed.) (forthcoming).

"Iraq’s New Political Elites", in Barry Rubin (ed.) Iraq after Saddam, Sharpe, (forthcoming).

"The Long Road to Democracy in Iraq", in Joshua Teitelbaum (ed.), Political Liberalization in the Persian Gulf, London: Hurst & company, 2009, pp.249-270.

"The Sunni-Shi'i Divide in Iraq: Past and Present", in Tamar Yegnes (ed.), Sunna and Shi'a: The Changing Balance of Power, Tel Aviv:  The Moshe Dayan Center, 2008 (pp. 101-113)

"Iraq – From Failed Nation-State to Binational State?", in Asher Susser (ed.), Challenges to the Cohesion of the Arab State, Tel Aviv:  The Moshe Dayan Center, 2008 (pp. 59-83)

(with Gencer Özcan), "The Decade of the Military in Turkey: The Partnership with Israel in the 1990s" in Michael Winter and Miri Sheffer (eds.), Turkey: The Ottoman Past and the Republican Present, Tel Aviv:  The Moshe Dayan Center, 2007 (pp. 279-302, in Hebrew)

"The Clash of Civilizations or Their Decay? An Iraqi Perspective", in Meir Litvak (ed.), Middle Eastern Societies and the West: Accommodation or Clash of Civilizations?, Tel Aviv:  The Moshe Dayan Center, 2006 (pp. 45-58).

"Kurdish Autonomy in Iraq in a Historical Perspective", in Brendan O’Leary, Khaled Salih and John McGarry (eds.), The Future of Kurdistan and Iraq, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005 (pp. 173-186).

"Upon the Fall of the Ba'th: The Struggle between the Elites in Iraq", in The Middle East: The Impact of Generational Change, Tel Aviv, The Moshe Dayan Center, 2005 (pp. 91-117).

"Upon the Fall of the Ba'th: The Struggle between the Elites in Iraq", in The Middle East: The Impact of Generational Change, Tel Aviv, The Moshe Dayan Center, 2005 (pp. 91-117, in Hebrew).

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