Ofra Bengio

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: 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