Yehudit Ronen gave a lecture on "Between Arabism and Africanism: Libya's Involvement in Sudan," at a conference  on Libya's Pan-African Policies  held at the CNA, in Alexandria, VA, in October 2010. She spoke on "A Triangle of Clandestine Diplomatic Success: The Airlift of Ethiopian Jews through Sudan to Israel," at a conference titled, From the Centre to the Periphery: Israel, Clandestine Diplomacy and the Modern Middle East, held at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, in Trondheim, May 2011. That same month, she lectured on "'The Arab Spring' and 'the Libyan Winter': Qaddafi and the War," at a conference on The Middle East in the Eye of the Storm: Trends and Challenges, held at the Herzog Center for the Middle East and Diplomacy, at Ben-Gurion University.

In May 2011, Ronen lectured on "Political Islam, Libya and the West," at a conference devoted to Political Islamic Movements in the Middle East held at the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Strategic Dialogue, at Netanya's Academic College. In June, she spoke on "Regional Demographic Movements: Arab and African Migratory Waves to Europe," at a conference entitled Global Migration and Multiculturalism: Religion, Society, Policy and Politics, held at the Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (CRONEM), Surrey University, Surrey, UK.

 Ronen's article, "Between Africanism and Arabism: Libya’s Involvement in Sudan,” was published in The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, (2011). Throughout the year, she reviewed several literary works in the Israeli periodical, Iton 77.

email: yronen@post.tau.ac.il

Books

Qaddafi's Libya in World Politics (2008).

Sudan in Civil War: Between Africanism, Arabism and Islam (1995, in Hebrew).

Editor, The Maghrib: Politics, Society, and Economics (1998, in Hebrew).

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Journal Articles and Op-Eds (a selected list)

"Libya's Dynamic Stalemate," Y-net, 20 April 2011.

"Revolution against the Revolution: Battle over State and Society in Libya," Tzomet HaMizrach HaTichon, The Moshe Dayan Center, 21 March 2011 (in Hebrew).

"מהפכה נגד 'המהפכה': קרב על פני המדינה והחברה בלוב," צומת המזרח התיכון, מרכז משה דיין לחקר המזרח התיכון, כרך 1, מהדורה מיוחדת מס' 1006 (21 במרץ 2011).

"Second Thoughts: Qadhafi and his Nuclear Program," International Institute for Islamic Studies, March 2010.

"The 40^th Anniversary of the Qadhafi Regime: Moments of Great Political Contentment," International Institute for Islamic Studies, September 2009.

“Changing Mosaic of Mediterranean Migration: An African-European Encounter,” Maghreb Review, Vol. 36, No.1, January 2008.

“The Sudanese-Egyptian-Libyan Triangle of Relations Under the Shadow of Radical Islam,” Hamizrach Hehadash, the Israeli Oriental Society, Vol. MZ 2008.

“The HIV/AIDS Tragedy and the Bulgarian Medics’ Affair: A Window on State and Society in Libya”, Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 43, No. 3, May 2007.

“Between the Mahdiyya and the Muslim Brotherhood:  Continuity and Change in Islamic Radicalism in Sudan,” Journal of North African Studies,” Vol. 12, No. 1, March 2007.

“Libya’s Conflict with Britain: An Analysis of a Diplomatic Rupture,” Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 42, No.2, March 2006.

“Religions at War, Religions at Peace: The Case of Sudan,” Zeitschrift Für Politik, the Political Science Journal of the University of München, Vol. 1, No. 52, März 2005.

“Libya’s Rising Star: Saif al-Islam and Succession,” Middle East Policy, Vol. 12, No. 3, Fall, 2005.

"Qadhafi and the Israeli – Palestinian Conflict, 1969-2002,” Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 40, No. 1, January 2004.

“Egypt and Sudan: The Swing of the Pendulum,” Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 39, No. 3, July 2003.

“Libya’s Diplomatic Success in Africa: The Re-emergence of Qadhafi on the International Stage,” Diplomacy and Statecraft, Vol. 13, No. 4 December 2002.

“Ethiopia’s Involvement in the Sudanese Civil War: Was it as Significant as Khartoum Claimed?” Northeast African Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2002.

"Qadhafi and Militant Islamism: Unprecedented Conflict?"

Middle Eastern Studies, October 2002, Vol. 38, No. 4.

The Lockerbie Endgame: Qadhdhafi Slips the Noose
The Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2002, Vol. 9, No.1.

Personalities and Politics: Qadhafi, Nasser, Sadat and Mubarak (1969-2000)
The Journal of  North African Studies, Autumn 2001, Vol. 6, No. 3.

Sudan and the United States: Is a decade of tension winding down?
Middle East Policy, March 2002, Vol. 9, No. 1.

Moroccan Immigration in the Mediterranean Region: Reflections in  Ben Jelloun's Literary Works
The Journal of  North African Studies, Winter 2001, Vol. 6, No. 4.

Disillusionment with Arab Solidarity - Political Pragmatism in Libya's Relations  with Egypt: 1992-99
The Review of International Affairs, Autumn 2001, Vol. 1, No. 1.

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Chapters in Books (a selected list)

"The Decline of the West in Qaddafi's Perception: From Confrontation to Reconciliation," Uriya Shavit ed., (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, forthcoming).

"Sudan's dilemma towards Sadat's peace initiative: A Case of Diplomatic Acrobatics in the Arab World", Mira Tzoreff ed., (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, forthcoming).

"Zionism and Judeo-Islamic Relations in the Middle East: Libya's Ideological and Political Position," in The Convergence of Judaism and Islam: The Religious, Scientific and Cultural Dimensions, Michael M. Laskier and Yaakov Lev eds. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, forthcoming).

"Radical Islam Versus the Nation-State: Violent Conflicts in Northeast Africa and the Nile Valley," in Jonathan Fox ed., Religion, Politics, Society, and the State (Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, forthcoming 2011).

"Nationalism and Radical Islam in Libya: Violent Tension between Religion and Politics," (Tel Aviv: Tel-Aviv University, forthcoming).

"The Influence of the Maghreb Arena on Tunisia's Position towards the Jews and the State of Israel," Tarshish – The Legacy of Tunisian Jewry, Ephraim Hazan and Haim Saadon, eds., Part II, (Bar-Ilan University Publications, forthcoming).

“Zionism and Judeo-Islamic Relations in the Middle East: Libya’s  Ideological and Political Position”, Bridging the Worlds of Judaism and Islam, Michael Laskier and Yaacov Lev, eds. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida,  Forthcoming).

“The Islamic Immigration-Terrorism Nexus: Europe’s Radical Imports,” Global Terrorism and Europe:  Perspectives to the Internationalization of Terror, Peter Nitschke ed. (Publishing House for Social Sciences, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden, Germany, 2008).  

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