Yehudit Ronen

Yehudit Ronen lectured on Egypt and the Nile Valley at a conference on “Egypt: Twenty-five years since the Sadat Assassination,” sponsored by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, and held in Jerusalem in October 2006. She also delivered a lecture on “Migratory Waves across the Mediterranean Sea: Effects on Libyan State and Society,” at an international conference on “Old and New Migration in the Mediterranean Region: Tripoli as a Mirage,” convened at the University of Macerata, Italy, in November 2006. In June she spoke on “The Oscillations in Qadhafi’s Position towards Jews of Libyan Origin” at an international conference on the aliya of Libyan Jewry, held at Bar-Ilan University. Ronen published “Between the Mahdiyya and the Muslim Brotherhood: Continuity and Change in Islamic Radicalism in Sudan,” in Journal of North African Studies, March 2007, and “The HIV/AIDS Tragedy and the Bulgarian Medics’ Affair: A Window on State and Society in Libya,” in the May 2007 issue of Middle Eastern Studies. Her article “Ethiopia’s Involvement in the Sudanese Civil War: Was it as Significant as Khartoum Claimed?” appeared in Northeast African Studies, May 2007. She reviewed Asne Seierstad, The Bookseller of Kabul, in the December 2006 issue of Iton 77, and Mukhtar Mai, HaMehulelet in the February 2007 issue of that journal.

email: yronen@post.tau.ac.il

Recent Journal Articles

Qadhafi and Militant Islamism: Unprecedented Conflict?
(Middle Eastern Studies, October 2002, Vol. 38, No. 4)

The Lockerbie Endgame: Qadhdhafi Slips the Noose
(The Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2002, Vol. 9, No.1)

Personalities and Politics: Qadhafi, Nasser, Sadat and Mubarak (1969-2000)
(The Journal of  North African Studies, Autumn 2001, Vol. 6, No. 3)

Sudan and the United States: Is a decade of tension winding down?
Middle East Policy, March 2002, Vol. 9, No. 1)

Moroccan Immigration in the Mediterranean Region: Reflections in  Ben Jelloun's Literary Works
(The Journal of  North African Studies, Winter 2001, Vol. 6, No. 4)

Disillusionment with Arab Solidarity - Political Pragmatism in Libya's Relations  with Egypt: 1992-99
(The Review of International Affairs, Autumn 2001, Vol. 1, No. 1)