Bruce Maddy-Weitzman’s delivered a paper entitled “Rival Challenges to the Algerian Pouvoir and Moroccan Makhzen: Berberism vs. Islamism” at an international conference sponsored by Institute for Counter-Terrorism, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, in September 2007. He organized a double panel entitled “Tribe, Ethnicity and State: The Multiple Aspects of the Berber World,” sponsored by the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS), at the Middle East Studies Association annual conference in November in Montreal. As part of the double panel, he delivered a paper entitled “State Strategies and Berber/Amazigh Responses in Morocco and Algeria: Containment and Inclusion vs. Moving The Goal Posts.” Maddy-Weitzman was also chosen to serve as a member of AIM’s Grant Proposals Committee. In March 2008, he spoke on Israeli views of the Middle East at a day-long seminar entitled “Regards croisés France-Israël,” organized by the Foundation pour l’innovation politique, in Paris. On May 8-11, he participated in the Seventh Tswalu Dialogue, entitled “Towards Conflict Resolution Best Practice,” co-sponsored by the Brenthurst Foundation and RUSI, held in South Africa. His presentation there was entitled “Why Does the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Seem Impervious to a Solution?”

email: bmaddy@post.tau.ac.il

Recent Journal Articles

"The Arab perspective" in Strengthening the forces of moderation in the Israeli-Palestinain conflict: the role of the European Union after the Gaza war, October 2009, pp.15-20.

Israel-Maghreb Relations: Realities and Possibilities
MERIA, Vol. 13, No. 3 (September 2009)

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

Ethno-politics and globalisation in North Africa: The berber culture movement
(The Journal of North African Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1, March 2006)

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

Jews and Berbers
(National Geographic, January 2005, Hebrew edition)
Jews and Berbers, English translation

Palestinian and Israeli Intellectuals in the Shadow of Oslo and Intifadat al-Aqsa
(Tami Steinmetz Center's Research Series, 2003; also published in Hebrew in the Dayan Center Papers series)

Islamism, Moroccan-Style: The Ideas of Sheikh Yassine
(Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2003, Vol. 10, No. 1)

Contested Identities: Berbers, 'Berberism' and the State in North Africa
(The Journal of North African Studies, Autumn 2001, Vol. 6, No.3)

Israel and Morocco: A special Relationship
(The Maghreb Review, 1996, Vol. 21, No. 1-2)

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