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Eyal Zisser delivered a paper on “Israel and the Arab World after the Lebanon War” at the annual conference of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, held in Boston in November 2006. Also in November he spoke on “The Arab World following the War in Lebanon” at a conference on “The Second Lebanon War and its Aftermath,” held by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar Ilan University, and delivered a paper on “Why Didn’t Syria Join the War?” at a conference on the Suez Campaign held at Haifa University’s Herzl Institute for Research on Zionism. In December he lectured on “Syria, Lebanon and Hizballah: Toward a Next Round?” at a Haifa University Conference on the Second Lebanon War. In January 2007 he discussed possible Syrian intentions at a conference on “After Lebanon: A New Middle East?” convened by the GLORIA Center at the IDC, Herzliya. In April he spoke on “Iran, Alawite Syria and Hizballah: Who is Calling the Shots?” at a conference on “Iran, Hizballah and Hamas: Money, Martyrdom and the Mahdi,” held by the Hebrew University. In May he spoke on “Syria’s Jewish Community under the Asad Regime” at a conference on “Syrian Jewry: History, Identity and Heritage,” organized by Bar Ilan University. In June he spoke on “The Future of Syria” at an international conference on “The Future of the Middle East” held by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar Ilan University. He also delivered a paper on “Israel and Syria – between War and Peace,” at the Association of Israel Studies’ annual meeting held at the Open University, Ra’anana, in June. Later that month he also spoke on “Syria’s Dilemma: Between Washington and Tehran,” at Middle East Technical University, Ankara. His book Commanding Syria: Bashar al-Asad and the First Years in Power was published by I. B. Tauris in October 2006. His article “Political Trends in the Middle East: Implications for Israel,” was published in the October 2006 issue of Israel Affairs. He also published “Bashar al-Asad’s Gamble” in Middle East Quarterly, Fall 2006.Ofra Bengio spoke on “Positive or Negative Domino Effect? The Case of Iraq” at a July 2006 conference on “Democratization of the Broader Middle East: Israeli, European and US Assessments,” held by TAU’s Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies. In March 2007 she delivered a lecture on “The Kurdish Phoenix: Nation-Building in a Failed Nation-State” to an international conference on Iraq held at Haifa University. Bengio traveled to Ankara in June, where she gave a talk on the Sunni-Shi‘i divide in Iraq at Middle East Technical University. She participated in an international conference on the future of the Middle East held at Bar-Ilan University in June, where she lectured on “The New Iraq: Towards Disintegration or Confederation?”. Her essay, “Exporting Democracy: What Have We Learned from Iraq?” was published in the Spring 2007 issue of Dissent. email: zisser@post.tau.ac.il Bashar Al-Assad: In or Out of
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