Ofra Bengio

Ofra Bengio spoke in October 2007 on “Iraq: Between Fitna and Civil War” at a BESA conference on violence in the world of Islam. In December 2007 she analyzed Turkish-Kurdish relations at an Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya conference on Turkey’s place in the West. Bengio tackled the topic of “Miracles or Interests: What keeps Turkish-Israeli Relations Going?” at a conference on Turkey and the Middle East held at Sabancı University in Istanbul in May 2008. Also in May, she lectured on “After the 2003 Gulf War: What New Middle East?” at a conference on “Changing Dynamics and Regional Instabilities in the Middle East and North Africa,” held at Cyprus International University. She reviewed Eric Davis, Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq; Lawrence G. Potter and Gary Sick (eds.), Iran, Iraq, and the Legacies of War; and Reeva Spector Simon and Eleanor H. Tejirian (eds.), The Creation of Iraq 1914–1921, in the January 2007 issue of Middle Eastern Studies. Her essay “The Others: Leopold Weiss and Nissim Sosa” was published in the Spring-Summer issue of Peamim. Another essay, “The New Iraq: Towards Disintegration or Confederation?,” appeared in The Future of the Middle East, Debates on National Security, January 2008, published by BESA. Ruah Mizrahit published her essay on the Turkish poet Orhan Veli Kanık and a translation of two of his poems.

Email: bengio@post.tau.ac.il

Recent Journal Articles

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