David Menashri

David Menashri  participated in a conference on "The International Context of Conflicts in the Middle East and Asian Approaches to Conflict Resolution" at Ryukoku University (Kyoto) on March 3-6, 2006, where he presented a paper on he presented a paper on "Patterns of Modern Iranian Politics: Continuity and Change." During a lecture tour of the US in April 2006 he spoke at Columbia University, New York University, and Hampshire College. On April 24 he delivered a lecture on "Ahmadinejad the President of Iran: What He's All About," at a conference inaugurating the Center for Iranian Studies (CIS) at Tel Aviv University. On June 6-7, he discussed "Ahmadinejad and Irans Neo-Cons: A New Hope for the Revolution?" at a CIS conference on political and social thought in Iran. At the end of June he attended a conference organized by the European Cultural Center of Delphi on the role of the US in the 21st century, and lectured on "The Emergence of President Ahmadinejad: Continuity and Change in Iran's Revolutionary Politics." He spoke on "Iran's President Ahmadinejad: Implications for Israel," at a September 6 colloquium sponsored by the CIS and the Daniel Abrahams Center for  International and Regional Studies on Iran in the Aftermath of the War in Lebanon. 

He published "The Jews of Iran: Between the Pahlavi Monarchy and the Islamic Republic," in Haim Saadon (ed.), Jews of Iran (in Hebrew: Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute, 2006)), and his "Iran, Israel and the Middle East Conflict," was published in the January 2006 issue of Israel Affairs.

email: menashri@post.tau.ac.il