Prof.
Raphael Israeli
Department of Asian Studies

E-mail: msraphi@mscc.huji.ac.il

 

 

Academic Training and Awards I Academic and Administrative Duties

List of Publications:
Research books in English
I Edited Books in English I Edited Books in Hebrew
Research Articles in English I Survey, Review and other Articles, in English and French
Articles in Hebrew I Papers in International Conferences I

Annex 1 : List of Journals I Annex 2: List of Lecture Topics

 



Academic Training and Awards

  • 1963 B.A. Degree in Arabic and History at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
  • 1968-1970 Fellow of the Center of Chinese Studies, the University of California, Berkeley.
  • 1970 M.A. Degree at the University of California, Berkeley, in East Asian History.
  • 1970-1971 A Stanford University grant to study Chinese at the Stanford Center, Taiwan University, Taipei.
  • 1971-1974 Fellow of the Center of International Studies, the University of California, Berkeley
  • 1973-1974 Lady Davis Fellow
  • 1974 PhD Degree in Chinese and Islamic History, at the University of California, Berkeley.
  • 2000 Principal Fellow in Chinese Regional Cultures (Funded
    the Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation) at the Melbourne
    Institute of Asian Languages and Societie
 

Academic and Administrative Duties

  • Since 1974 Lecturer and then Professor of Chinese History and Islamic Civilization, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem
  • 1975-1979 Coordinator, Asia Rese arch Unit, Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
  • 1979-1983 Director, Center for Pre-Academic Studies, Hebrew University.
  • Since 1979 Fellow at the Truman Research Institute.
  • Fall 1981 Visiting Professor at Semester-at-Sea, University of Pittsburgh, in Middle Eastern and Chinese Studies.
  • 1983-1984 Visiting Professor at York University, Toronto, in Middle Eastern and Chinese History.
  • 1984-1985 Visiting Scholar at the Centers of the Study of World Religions and Middle Eastern Studies, and Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, all at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mas.
  • Summer 1986 Visiting Professor in Middle Eastern Studies for the Summer Session in the Center of Internatioal Relations and the University Professors Program, Boston University, Boston.
  • Fall 1988 Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study Center, Bellagio, Italy
  • Summer-Fall 1990 Resident Fellow, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Virginia, U.S.A.
  • 1992-1996 Chairman, Department of East Asian Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
  • Fall 1996 Visiting Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies, School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
  • Winter-Spring 1997 Visiting Professor, Naruto University of Education, Naruto, Japan.
  • Fall 1997 Visiting Professor, Unit of International Relations, Law School, Gent University, Belgium.
  • Summer and Fall 2000 Principal Fellow in Chinese Regional Cultures, Melbourne Institute of Asian Langauges and Societies, Melbourne University
  • Winter and Spring2003 Visiting Professor , History Department, Wesleyan University, CT


    In addition to my regular academic and administrative assignments, I have taught courses for overseas students at Hebrew University. I have also traveled on lecture tours to major universities in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Japan and other Asian countries.
 

List of Publications

Research books in English

1. Muslims in China: a Study of Cultural Confrontation, Curzon and Humanities Press, London and Atlantic Heights, 1980, 260 pp. (Identical with PhD dissertation).

2. Man of Defiance: A Political Biography of Anwar Sadat, Weidenfeld and Nicolson and Barnes and Noble, London and Totowa, 1985, 300 pp.

3. Peace is in the Eye of the Beholder (Images of Israel in the Arab Media), Mouton Press, Berlin, New York and Amsterdam, 1985, 380 pp .

4. Palestinians Between Israel and Jordan:Squaring the Triangle, Praeger, New York, 1991,
200
pp.+ index.

5. A Critical Bibliography of Chinese Islam, Greenwood Press, 1994,200 pp. + index.

6. Muslim Fundamentalism in Israel, Brassey's, London 1993, 190 pp. + index.

7. Fundamentalist Islam and Israel (Essays in Interpretation), the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, University Press of America 1993, 200 pp. + index.

8 Poison: the Modern Manifestations of Blood Libel, Rowman and Littledfield, Madison, 2002.
260
pp.

9. Green Crescent Over Nazareth: The Displacement of Christians by Muslims, Frank Cass, London, 2002, 200 pp.

10. Jerusalem Divided: the Armistice Regime (1947-67), Frank Cass, London, 2002,220 pp.

10. Islam in China:Religion, Ethnicity, Culture and Politics, Lexington Books, 2002, 250 pp.

11. Arabs in Israel : Friend or Foe? (Hebrew), the Ariel Center for Policy Research, 2002, 250 pp.

12. Islamikaze: Manifestations of Islamic Martyrology, Frank Cass, London, 2003

13. War, Peace and Terror in the Middle East , Frank Cass, London, 2003

14. The Iraq War: Hidden Agendas and Babylonian Intrigue, Sussex Academic Press, 2004.


Edited Books in English

1-3. The Public Diary of President Sadat (Translated and annotated speeches and interviews of President Sadat), social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East, Vol. XXV, Brill, Leiden, 3 Vol. 1978-9.
Vol.I, The Road to War, 450 pp. 1978
Vol.II, The Road of Diplomacy, 450 pp., 1979
Vol.III, The Road of Pragmatism, 450 pp. and analytical index, 1979

4. I, Egypt: Aspects of the Political Thought of President Sadat (a compendium of his sayings) Leonard Davis Institute of International Relations, Magnes Press, Jerusalem, 1981, 180 pp.

5. The Crescent in the East: Islam in Asia Major, Curzon and Humanities Press, London and Atlantic Heights, 1982, 244 pp. (a collection of articles).

6. R.Israeli and A. Johns (ed.) Islam in Asia, Vol. II: Southeast Asia, Magnes and Westview Press, Jerusalem and Boulder, 1984, 280 pp. (a collection of papers).

7. The PLO in Lebanon: Selected Documents Weidenfeld and Nicolson and St. Martins Press, London and New Youk, 1983, 300 pp. (translated and annotated documents seized by Israel during the war in Lebanon).

8. Metin Heper and R. Israeli (eds.) Islam and Politics in the Modern Middle East, Croom Helm and St. Martins Press, London and New York, 1984, 130 pp. (a collection of papers).

9. Dangers of a Palestrinian State , Gefen, Jerusalem, 2003

Edited Books in Hebrew

9. Ten Years of Israeli Rule in the West Bank, Truman Institute of Research, Magnes Press, Jerusalem, 1980, 207 pp. (a collection of papers).

10. Flowers to David (a memorial book to the late David Farhi), Raphael Hacohen Press, Jerusalem, 1981, 190 pp.

11.Anwar Sadat, on War and Peace, Truman Institute, Hebrew Univesity, Magnes Press, Jerusalem, 1982, 120 pp. (an annotated collection of Sadat's saying).


Research Articles in English

1. "Sino-Arab Relations", The Wiener Library Bulletin, Autumn 1968, Vol. XXII, No. 4

2. "The Muslim Minority in Traditonal China", Asian and African Studies, Vol. 10, 1975,
pp. 101-126

3. "The Muslim Revival in 19th Century China", Studia Islamica, XLIII, 1976, pp. 119-138 (Identical with chap. 12 of book No. 1 above)

4. "Muslims versus Christians in China", Asia Quarterly, 1976, pp. 327-335 (identical with Chap. 8 of book No. 1 above).

5. "Islam and Judaism in China", Asia Profile Vol. 5, 1977, pp. 31-42 (identical with Chap. 7 of book No. 1 above).

6. "Muslims in China: Incompatibility Between Islam and the Chinese Order" T'oung Pao LXIII, 1978, pp. 296-323. Also published in book No. 7 above.

7. "Established Islam and Marginal Islam in China: From Eclecticism to Syncretism", Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, XXI, 1978, pp. 99-109.

8. "Sadat Between Arabism and Africanism", Middle East Review, Spring 1979, Vol. XI, No. 3,
pp. 39-48

9. "The Hui Under the Manchu", Studia Islamica, XLIX, 1978, pp. 159-179 (identical with Chap. XI of book No. 1 above)

10. "Islamization and Sinification in Chinese Islam", in N. Levtzion (ed) Conversion to Islam, Holmes and Meir, New York, 1979, 159-176

11. "The New Wave of Islam", International Journal, Vol. XXXIV, No. 3, Summer 1979,
pp. 369-390

12. "Ahung and Literatus: A Muslim Elite in Confucian China", Die Welt Des Islams, LXI, 1979,
pp. 1-4

13. "The Role of Islam in President Sadat's Thought", Jerusalem Journal of International Relations, Vol. IV No. 4, 1980, pp. 1-12.

14. "Muslims in the People's Republic of China", Asian Survey, August 1981, Vol. XXI, No. 8
pp. 901-919.

15. "Muslim Minorities Under Non-Muslim Rule", Current History, April 1980, pp. 159-164, 184-5.

16. "Sadat's Egypt and Teng's China: Modernization versus Revolution", The Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 95, No. 3, Fall 1980, pp. 361-71; and N. Oren (ed) When Patterns Change: Turning Points in International Politics, St. Martins Press, New York, 1984, pp. 208-220.

17. "Comparative Notes on Islam Under Nasser and Sadat", in M. Heper and R. Israeli (eds) (book No. 9 above, pp. 64-78)

18. "Anti-Jewish Attitudes in the Arab Media", Research Report, Institute of Jewish Affairs, London, Sep. 1983, 18 pp. See an updated version in item no. 32.

19. "The Peasant-President: Sadat's World of Images and Metaphors", Middle East Focus Vol. 7, No. 2, July 1984, pp. 11-14,20.

20. "Naqshbandiyyah and Factionalism in Chinese Islam", in M. Gaborieau and others (eds) Naqshbandis, Paris, Editions Isis, 1990, pp. 575-587.

21. "The PLO and the People's Republic of China: From Honeymoon to Conjugal Routine", in A. Norton (ed) The International Relations of the PLO, Southern Illinois University Press, 1989,
pp. 138-165.

22. "Is There Shi'a in Chinese Islam?" Journal of the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs, Vol. IX, No. 1, Jan. 88, pp. 49-66

23. "Muslim Rebellions in Modern China: A part of, or a Counter-part to, Chinese Revolution" M. Sharon (ed), Studies in Islamic History and Civilization, in Honour of David Ayalon, Brill, Leiden, 1986, pp. 291-303

24. "Civil Rights in Israel and the Territories", in J. Donnelly and Rh. Howard (eds), International Handbook of Human Rights, Greenwood Press, N.Y. 1987, pp. 161-182. Also "Between the Peak and the Pit", Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce Spring 1987, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 403-433

25. "Living in China's Shadow", Orbis, Fall 1987, pp. 339-350

26. "An Arabic Manuscript on China and Tibet", Arabica, XXXIX, 1992, pp. 207-215.

27. "Consul de France in 19th Cent. China", Revue Francaise d'Histoire d'outre-mer, LXXV (l988) No. 281, pp. 417-447; and Modern Asian Studies, 23, 4 (1989) pp. 671-703.

28. "The PLO after Algiers, Stockholm and Geneva: Rhetoric and Substance" Survey of Arab Affairs, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, May 15, 1989

29. "The Charter of Allah: The Platform of the Islamic Resistance Movement" in Y. Alexander (ed.) The 1988-89 Annual of Terrorism, Martinus Nijhoff, 1990, The Netherlands, pp. 99-134.

30. "Diplomacy of Contempt: The French Consuls and the Mandarins", Modern Asian Studies, 26, 2 (1992) 363-394.

31. "Watching China and Sizing up the Chinese", Revue Francaise d'Histoire d'outre-mer, LXXVIII (1991) No. 291, pp. 215-238.

32. "Anti-Jewish Attitudes in the Arab Media", R. Wistrich (ed.) Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism in the Contemporary World, McMillan 1990, pp. 102-120. See a preliminary version in item no. 18.

33. "Islam Militants on Trial", International Problems XXX 56 (1-2) 1991, pp. 26-36.

34. "The Islamic Republics of Central Asia and the Middle East" in International Journal of Group Rights, no. 3, 1995, pp. 31-46.

35. "Sadat: The Calculus of War and Peace", in Gordon Craig and F. Loewenheim (eds.) The Diplomats 1939-1994, Princeton University Press (1994), pp. 436-458.

36. "Translation as Exegesis: the opening Sura of the Quran in Chinese", in P. Riddell and T. Street (eds.) Islam: Essays on Scripture, Thought and Society, Brill, Leiden and New York, 1997, pp. 81-103.

37. "The Cross Battles the Crescent: One Century of Missionary Work Among Chinese Muslims," Revue Francaise d'Histoire d-Outre-Mer LXXX (1993), No. 300, pp. 1-25.

38. "al-Sin", in the New Encyclopedia of Islam, Leiden, pp. 622-625.

39. "Muslim Fundamentalists as Social Revolutionaries", in The Journal of Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol. 6, no. 4, winter 1994, pp. 462-475, Frank Cass, London, 1995.

40. “Ethnicity, Religion, Nationality and Social Conflict: The Case of Chinese Muslims”, European Journal of International Migration and Ethnic Relations, Berlin, 1995, pp. 85-102.

41. “Islamikaze and their Significance”, in Terrorism and Political Violence, Frank Cass, London, Fall 1997, pp. 96-121.

42. “The Pervasiveness of Islam in Contemporary Arab Political Discourse: The Cases of Sadat and Arafat”, O. Feldman and Christ’l de Landsheer (eds), Politically Speaking, Greenwood Press, 1998, pp. 19-30.

43. “Arabs in Israel: Criminality, Identity and the Peace Process”, Journal of Terrorism and Political Violence, Spring, 1998, pp. 39-59.

44. “Muslim Upheaval in China”, S. Asherick and others (eds.), in Empire and Beyond, (forthcoming).

45. “Islam and Democracy”. Midstream, June-July 1997, pp. 4-6.

46. “Medieval Muslim Travellers to China”, Maritime Silk Rood Studies, no. 1, 1997, pp. 94-104.

47. “Egypt’s Nationalism Under Sadat”, Journal of South Asia and Middle Eastern Studies. Vol. 21, no. , 1998, pp. 1-23.

48. The Israel-Jordan Agreement – A Missed Opportunity, Ariel Center for Policy Research, Policy Paper, no. 26, 1998.

49. “A New Wave of Muslim Revivalism in Mainland China”, Issues and Studies 33, March 1997, pp. 21-41.

50. “Islamic Fundamentalism in the Public Square” Jewish Political Studies Review II: 3-4 (Fall 1999) pp. 141-162.

51. “Education, State-building and the Peace Process: Educating Palestinian Children in the post-Oslo Era”, in Journal of Terrorism and Political Violence, January 2000, .

52. Myth and Memory: Muslims in China Between Myth and History”, Muslim World, Vol 91, No 1-2, Spring 2001, pp. 185-208.

53. “Arab and Islamic Antisemitism”, The Ariel Center for Policy Research, No 104, March, 2000, pp. 1-20

54. “The Three Seas in Japan’s Strategy in East and SoutheastAsia”, The American Asian Review , vol. XVIII, No 4, Winter, 2000, pp.1-23

55. “From Bosnia to Kosovo: the Reislamisation of the Balkans”, Ariel Center for Policy Research, No. 109, November 2000, pp. 1-33.

56. “The Odd Couple:Turkey and Israel”, Orbis, January, 2001, pp 165-179.

57. and Adam Gardner-Rush, “Sectarian Islam and Sino-Muslim Identity in China”, Muslim World, Vol 90, No 3-4, Fall 2000, pp. 439-57.

58. Western Democracies and Islamic Fundamentalist Violence”, Journal of Terrorism and Political Violence, January 2001, pp. 160-173

59. “The Oslo Delusion- or the Collapse of Axioms” The Ariel Center for Policy Research, No 126, May 2001, pp. 1-40.

60. “From Oslo to Bethlehem: Arafat’s Islamic Message”, Journal of State and Church, September 2001, pp. 1301-23.

61. “Une Image Demoniaque du Juif”, L’Arche, No 523, September 2001, pp. 90-5.

62. “Anti-Semitism Revived: The Impact of the Intifada on Muslim Immigrant Groups in Western Democracies”, Jerusalem Viewpoints, The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, No 455, June 2001, pp. 1-8.

63. “Is Jordan Palestine?”, in Kumarasawamy (ed.) The Fateful Triangle: Israel, the Hashemites and the Palestinians, Frank Cass, London, ?2002.

64. “Radical Islam and Israel”, in Tudor Parfitt, Israel and Ishmael, Curzon Press, London, 2000, pp. 226-238.

65. “State and Religion in the Emerging Palestinian Entity”, in Journal of State and Church, Vol 44, Spring 2002, pp.229-248

66. “A Manual of Islamic Fundamenbtalist Terrorism”, Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol 14:4, Winter 2002, pp. 23-40.

67. .”La Confrontation des Deux Revendications. L’Eclairage des Moeurs internationales sur les Echanges de Populations”, in Shmuel Trigano (ed), L’Exclusion des Juifs des Pays Arabes, Editions In Press, Paris,2003, pp. 355-75

68. “Asia: the Emerging Hub of World Muslim Terrorism”, Ariel Center of Policy Research, Policy Paper No 146, 2003.

69. “The anti-Millennium: the Islamization of Nazareth”, Journal of Israel Affairs, 2003, pp. 49-63.

70. “L’antisemitisme Travesti en Antisionisme”, in Georges Bensoussan (ed), Antisemitisme et Negationnisme dans le Monde Arabo-Musulman: La Derive , Revue du Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine, Paris, 2004, pp. 109-171.

71. “Armistice in Jerusalem once again?”, Journal of Israel Affairs, 2004, pp. 49-63

72. “Palestinian Women :The Quest for a Voice in the Public Square through Islamikaze Martyrdom”, Journal of Terrorism and Political Violence, , Vol 16, No 1, Spring 2004, pp. 66-96.


Survey, Review and other Articles, in English and French

1. "Muslim Arabs and Arab Jews: Perceptions and Reflections", WOJAC's Voice, Jan. 1979, pp. 3-7

2. "Arabs in Israel and the Administered Territories", Encyclopedia Judaica, 1977-8, Yearbook,
pp. 3-7

3. "Islam in China", Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions, Nashville, 1981, pp. 358-9

4. "Sinkiang in the Web of International Politics", a review article, Die Welt des Islams XIX, No. 1-4, 1979, pp. 219-222

5. "Islam in China", Cambridge Encyclopedia of China, Cambridge University Press, 1982, pp. 330-2

6. "Les Musulmans Chinois", Mythes et Croyances du Monde Entier, Editions Lidis, Paris, 1985, Vol. II, pp. 442-49

7. "Arabs in Israel: the Surge of a New Identity", Plural Societies, Vol. XII, No. 4, Winter 1980, pp. 21-30; Aluf Hareven (ed), Every Sixth Israeli, Van Leer, Jerusalem Foundation, 1983, pp. 169-183

8. "Islam in the Chinese Environment", in B. Smith (ed) Contributions to Asian Studies, No. 17, 1982, Brill, Leiden, pp. 79-92

9. "A Policy Proposed: A Palestinian National Settlement", Jerusalem Quarterly, Spring 1983,
pp. 27-32

10. "Palestinian National Aspiration: the Plight and a Remedy", Crossroads, Spring 1983, No. 10,pp. 245-265

11. "Back to Nowhere: Morocco Revisited", Jerusalem Quarterly, No. 34, Winter 1985, pp. 3-15

12. "The Israeli Elections of 1984: Issues and Factions", Middle East Review, Special Report, No. 1, 1984-5, pp. 1-7

13. In a Land of Strangers" (an Israeli views American Jews), Jerusalem Quarterly, 39, Summer 1986, pp. 126-144

14. "Chinese Muslims", in S. Sutherland and others (eds), The World's Religions, Routledge, London, 1988, pp. 408-424

15. "The Palestinian Liberation Organization", S.H. Rolef (ed.) Political Dictionary of the State of Israel, Mc Millan, M.Y. & London, 1987, pp. 235-240

16. "The Impact of Islamic Fundamentalism on the Arab-Israeli Conflict", Survey of Arab Affairs, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 15 August, 1988, pp. 1-6

17. "The Decade of Sadat's rule in Egypt and Beyond" a review article, Journal of Economic and Administrative Studies, Istanbul, Turkey, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1988, pp. 79-90.

18. "Islamic Fundamentalism among the Palestinian Arabs", Survey of Arab Affairs, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem, 15 August 1989

19. "Squaring the Palestinian Triangle", Terrorism, Vol. 13 pp. 337-351. Taylor and Francis, 1990.

20. Shlomo Sharan and Rafi Israeli, "Leadership and Negotiation in the Middle East", a review Article of B. Vellerman and J. Rubin's book of the same title, in Contemporary Psychology, Vol. 36, No. 8, 1991, pp. 706-707.

21. "Can the West Lead Peace Efforts in the Middle East?" Crossroads, No. 34, 1991, pp. 75-83.

22. "Egypt's Drift Back to the Center: A Review Essay", in Middle East Focus, Vol. 14, No. 3, Summer/Fall 1992, pp. 22-3.

23. A China Diary: A Review of Z. Sufot’s book, China Diary in The China Journal, Issue 40, 1998, pp. 222-5.

24. A review article of P. Kumaraswami (ed) China and the Middle East: the Quest for Influence, in the China Journal, 2002

25. .A review article of Elisabeth Alles, Une Anthropology: Musulmans Hui du Henan, in the China Journal, 2001.

26. A review article of Jaschok Maria and Sgui Jingjun, The History of Women’s Mosques in China: a Mosque of their Own, Curzon, 2000, in the China Journal, issue 47, 2002.


Articles in Hebrew

1. "Communist China's Struggle for Presence in the Arab World", Hamizrach Hechadash, Vol. 18, 1968, No. 1-2, pp. 79-105

2. "Who is the Boss in Southeast Asia: China's Campaign Against Vietnam", Skira Chodshit No. 1-2, Jan. -Feb. 1979, pp. 24-36

3. "President Sadat: A Leader's Profile", E. Gilboa and A. Naor (eds), The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Factors, Confrontations, Prospects, the Israeli Defence Forces Publishers, 1980, pp. 13-32

4. "Sadat Under Khumeini's Shadow",Gesher, the American-Jewish Congress, No. 3-4, Fall-Winter 1980, pp. 41-50

5. "The Dissolution of Chinese Jewry", in M. Zohari and A. Tartakower (eds) Kovetz Haguth Ivrit, Jerusalem 1981, pp. 333-341

6. "The Socio-Political System in Traditional China", in Y. Shichor (ed), China: Tradition and Change, the Israeli Defence Forces, 1978, pp. 9-14

7. "Protest Movements and Secret Societies in Traditional China", in Y. Shichor (above)

8. "Cambodia: Background of a Holocaust", Skira Chodshit, No. 12, Dec. 1979, pp. 25-30.

9. "The Muslim-Malay Hybrid", a review article on M. Yegar's book on Malaysia, in State, Government and International Relations, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, No. 15, 1980, pp. 99-103

10. "The Identity Problem of Israeli Arabs", in A. Hareven (ed) Every Sixth Israeli, Van Leer Jerusalem Foundation, 1981, pp. 175-184

11. "From an External War to a Domestic Revolution", a review article on A. Shay's book on modern China, Zemanim, Summer 1982, pp. 93-5

12. "State and Church in China", in Priesthood and Kingship, Shazar Center, Jerusalem, 1987, pp. 93-103

13. "Muslims and Jews in the Chinese Empire” (in Hebrew) in Hava Lazarus-Yafe (ed.) Muslim Writers on Jews and Judaism, Shazar Center, Jerusalem, 1995, pp. 219-235.


Papers in International Conferences

1. "The Incompatibility of Islam with the Chinese Order", International Conference of Islam in Asia, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, April1977

2. "Islam in the Confucian System", Conference of the International Association of the Historians of Asia, Chulalungkorn University, Bangkok, August 1977

3. "The Muslim Minority of China", International Conference on National Minorities, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, June, 1980

4. "Sadat's World of Images and Metaphors", The International Conference of the Association of Political Psychology, University of Toronto, June 1984

5. "The Naqshbandiyyah and Factionalism in Chinese Islam", International Conference on the Naqshbandiyyah, University of Paris and CNRS, Paris, May 1985

6. "The Appeal and Diffusion of Fundamentalist Islam", Conference of Islam and Politics in the Modern Middle East, Harvard University, Cambridge, October 1985

7. "China in Southeast Asia", International Workshop on China and Japan in the Present Day World, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, April 1986

8. "Syria under the Soviet Umbrella", Conference of the International Security Council, Jerusalem, October 1986

9. "The Holy Land in Contemporary Arab Media", The International Conference on the Relations between the Holy Land and the World Outside it, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, December 1986

10. "Human Rights in the Territories", International Conference on Human Rights and the Palestinians, University of Syracuse, New York, February 1987

11. "A Syncretic Solution to the Palestinian National Problem", International Conference on the West Bank and Gaza, Fletcher School of Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, March 1987

12. "Islam and the Confucian Worldview: the Muslim Minority in China", International Congress: the Member of Another Religion in Religious Law, Jerusalem and Haifa, April 1987

13. "The Cross in the Rice-paddy: Muslim and Chinese Reactions to the Mission in China", The International Workshop on Native Reactions to Christian Missions, Hebrew University, June 1987

14. "The Cross and the Crescent: Missionary work among Chinese Muslims", International Conference on Chinese Islam, Harvard University, Cambridge, April 1989.

15. "Sadat views Israel", Bi-national Conference on Perceptions of the Enemy, Warsaw, Poland,
May 1989.

16. "Squaring the Palestinian Triangle", International Conference on Jordan is Palestine, Jerusalem, Nov. 1989.

17. "Islamic Treatment of Jews, Israel and Zionism", Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Conference on Peace-Justice-Development, the Contribution of Religions to Peace in the Middle East, Sep. 1991.

18. "The Central Asian Republics & the Middle East", International Conference on the Islamic Republics of the Former Soviet Union, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 9 May, 1992.

19. "Islam and Judaism: Then and Now", International Conference America 1992, Sao Paulo University, 16-20 August 1992, and Maimonides University in Buenos Aires, 30 September - 3 October, 1992.

20. "Israel and the Territories", International Conference on Human Rights, Loccum, Germany, 11-14 March, 1993.

21. "Translation as Exegesis: the Quran in Chinese", Festschrift Conference for Anthony Jones, Australian National University, Canberra, Sept. 1993.

22. "Arab Travelers in China", International Conference of Islamic Culture in China, Quanzhou, China, February, 1994.

23. "Muslim Fundamentalism", International Conference of Political Psychology, Santiago de Compostella, Spain, July 1994.

24. "Muslim Fundamentalism in the Middle East", International Conference of Political Psychology, Amsterdam, October 1994.

25. "Muslim Fundamentalism in the Arab-Israeli Conflict", International Conference on Fundamentalism in Various Cultures, Loccum, Germany, November, 1994.

26. “Why Oslo Cannot Work?”, International Conference on the Middle East Peace Process, Lund University, Sweden, September 1997.

27. “Muslim Upheaval in China”, Empire and Beyond Conference, honouring Fred Wakeman, University of California, Berkeley, December, 1997.

28. “The Middle East Peace Process” in Conference on the Middle East, Free University in Bruxelles and University of Liege, December 1997.

29. “The Role of Personality in Negotiations: Anwar Sadat”, in Peacemaking and Negotiations in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, International Conference, Leonard Davis Institute, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 17-19 November, 1998.

30. “Political Violence Among Muslim Diasporas: Muslims in China”, in International Conference on Middle Eastern Minorities, the Hebrew University, 13-14 December, 1998.

31. “Armistice in Jerusalem Once Again?”, in The 16th Annual Meeting of the Association for Israel Studies, Tel Aviv University, June 25-7, 2000

32. “L’Exclusion des Juifs des Pays Arabes et le Contentieux Israelo-Arabe”, Conference Internationale sur les Juifs du Maghreb, Paris, 15-17 December, 2001.

33. .”Islamikaze and their Ramifications”, ,Genocide and Terrorism: Probing the Mind of the Perpetrator, Yale University, April 11, 2003

34. “The New Arab and Islamic Antisemitism”, International Conference on Antisemitism, the Institute of Contemporary Jewish Research, Montreal, March 2004.

  Annex 1 : List of Journals
1. Arabica, Paris.

2. Asia Profile, Hong Kong.

3. Asia Quarterly, Brussels.

4. Asian Survey, University of California, Berkeley.

5. Contributions to Asian Studies, Brill, Leiden.

6. Current History, Philadelphia.

7. Die Welt des Islams, Germany.

8. International Journal of Group Rights, the Netherlands.

9. International Problems, Tel Aviv University.

10. Institute of Jewish Affairs, London.

11. Jerusalem Journal of International Relations.

12. Jerusalem Quarterly.

13. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. Brill, Leiden.

14. Journal of the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs, London.

15. Journal of Economic and Administrative Studies, Istanbul.

16. Journal of Terrorism and Political Violence, London.

17. Middle East Focus, Toronto.

18 .Middle East Review, New York.

19. Modern Asian Studies, Cambridge, United Kingdom

20. Muslim World, Hartford, Connecticut
.
21. Orbis, Philadelphia
.
22. Policy Papers, Ariel Center of Policy Research
.
23.Political Science Quarterly, American Academy of Political Science, New York.

24. Revue Francaise d'Histoire d'Outre-mer, Paris.

25. Studia Islamica, Paris.

26. The Annual of Terrorism, Nijhoff, Holland.

27. T'oung Pao, Brill, Leiden.

28. Wiener Library Bulletin, London.

 

Annex 2: List of Lecture Topics

1. Update on the Middle East

2. The Roots of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

3. The Peace process: Intentions and realities

4. Understanding Islam

5. The Revival of Islam and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

6. The Arabs in Israel

7. The PLO in the Peace Process

8. Cleavages in Israeli Society: the Ashkenazi-Sephardic and othe rdichotomies

9. Israel's political system

10. Education in Israel

11. President Sadat's Egypt

12. The Jews in the Arab World

13. The West Bank, Gaza and the Palestinian Problem

14. The Jewish community of China

15. The Muslim minority of China

16. Modern China: history and culture

17. Introduction to Chinese history and culture

18. Jews and Israel in Arab eyes

19. Diaspora Jews and Israel

20. Various Scenarios for settling the Palestinian Problem

21. Fundamentalist Islam in Israel and the Territories.

22. The Gulf War and Beyond

23. Central Asia and the Middle East

24. Towards a New Middle East?

25. The “Suicide” Bombers.

26. The new Arafat after Oslo.

27. Muslim Fundamentalism in China.

28. Modern Manifestations of the Blood Libel

29. . Sectarianism in Chinese Islam

30. The Qur’an in Chinese

31. The Collapse of Oslo and its Aftermath

32. International Islamic Terrorism

33. International Islamic Activism Shifts Eastwards to Asia

34. Iraq in the Gulf

35. The Third Gulf War (2003)