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The Academic College of Western Galilee

CURRICULUM VITAE

MICHAEL M. LASKIER מיכאל מ. לסקר

PERSONAL DATA

E-mail: [email protected] , [email protected]

EDUCATION

1971 B.A. History, Magna cum laude, UCLA 1973 M.A. History, UCLA 1979 Ph.D. History, UCLA

Thesis: “The Jews of Morocco and the Alliance Israélite Universelle: 1860-1956” Published by University Microfilm International, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Supervisors: Professors Nikki R. Keddie and Malcolm H. Kerr

PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

1. 2018-: The Academic College of the Western Galilee. Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies in Medieval, Modern, and Contemporary Periods; Member of the College's Faculty Appointments and Promotions Committee

2. 2012-2017: The Academic College on the Sea of Galilee (then under the auspices of Bar-Ilan University), Chief Academic Officer of the Bar-Ilan Division at the College. A five-year appointment by Bar-Ilan University

3. 1999-2017: Bar-Ilan University, Department of Middle Eastern Studies. Tenured full Professor since 2000. A Member of the Senior Faculty Appointments Committee, October 2006-October 2009 & October 2015-October 2017; Member of the University's Central Doctoral Committee, October 2005-December 2007; Senate Member: 2009-2017; Member of the Senior Faculty Appeals Court; Director: The Menachem Begin Institute for the Study of Underground & Resistance Movements, 2006-2016; Member of the Bar-Ilan University Academic Press's Publications Committee, 2011-2017; National Council for the Preservation of the Independence of Israeli Universities (appointed by the Bar-Ulan University's Senate as its Representative (2014-2016); Professor Emeritus since 1 October 2017; on Sabbatical from Bar-Ilan University – 2012-2013 & 2016-2017

4. 1995-2003: The Academic College of Ashqelon (then under the auspices of Bar- Ilan University), Full-time Associate Professor of History and Political Science +

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15% Chair, Political Science Department. Chair of the Dormitory, Student Scholarship, Tuition, and Learning Disabilities committees, as well as the Faculty Teaching Appointment Committee, 1997-2001

5. 1988-1990 & 1993-1994: American Jewish University, Los Angeles, Visiting Associate Professor of History

Sabbatical from Tel Aviv University: 1988-1989: at UCLA and American Jewish University

6. 1980-1988: Tel Aviv University, full time Lecturer in Jewish & Middle Eastern- African History Departments; Research Fellow, The Diaspora Research Institute. Taught in IDF's Piqud u-Mateh College and the Overseas Studies Program as part of the University's teaching duties

VISITING RESEARCH or TEACHING SCHOLAR

1. Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC), UCLA, 1988- 1989 2. Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), University of Chicago, 1990-1992 3. American Jewish University, 1988-1990; 1993-1994

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:

Israel & The Arab States Back-Channel Israeli-Arab Contacts, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Israel & Inter-Arab Politics, Israel and the Mediterranean Basin including relations with European Union Member-States in the Southern Mediterranean Region, Diplomacy, Security Issues

Middle East Regional Politics, Modern Arab History Middle East/Maghreb in the 19th/20th Centuries, Inter-Arab Politics, Radical Islam

Modern Jewish History Middle East, Maghrib, France: Economics, Politics, Muslim-Jewish Ties, Modernization, Education, Colonialism, Zionism, Emigration, Anti-Semitism, World War II, Underground Organizations

Israeli Society Since 1948 Emigration [Aliyah] from the Diaspora, Americanization of Israeli Culture, Israeli Society Seen by Palestinians; Civil Liberties & Social Action Forces; Core & Periphery

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French Politics, The European Union, The Maghreb and Islam Franco-Israeli Relations in the 1950s through the 1990s, Trade Agreements, Euro- Mediterranean Partnership, Islam in Europe, Tran-National Terrorist Networks, Mutual Interests and Conflicts between Europe and Maghrebi states, Problems relating to immigration, drugs, and money laundering

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, RESEARCH GRANTS, FUNDS FOR ORGANIZING CONFERENCE

2014-17: Grant by the Menachem Begin Institute for the Study of Resistance Movement at Bar-Ilan University & The Dan Shomorn Research Center for Security Studies at the Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee for a Joint 2-Book Project on the Yom Kippur War, May 2014 ( ₪ 100,000 in total)

2013: Grant by the Menachem Begin Institute for the Study of Resistance Movements at Bar-Ilan University & The Dan Shomron Research Center for Security Studies at the Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee for a Joint International Conference on 40 Years to the Yom Kippur War, held on 30-31 October 2013 ($13,000.00)

2012: Grant by Bar-Ilan University for the 36th Annual Conference of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Association of Israel (MEISAI) Conference held at Bar-Ilan on 7 June 2012 ($4,000.00)

2008: The Renée and Nessim Gaon Book Award for my work Israel and the Aliyah from North Africa: 1948-1970. Ben-Gurion University Press, at Yad Ben-Zvi in Jerusalem, 12 February 2008 ($2,500.00 prize)

2007: Grant by Bar-Ilan University's Research Authority of $2,000.00 for organizing the Conference on Islam and Judaism at the University of Maryland

2007: Grant by the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation of $7,000.00, New York, for the book Judaism and Islam in Medieval & Modern Times

2005: Grant by the U.S. Embassy in Tel-Aviv of $2,000.00 to organize the International Conference at Bar-Ilan University "Bridging he Worlds of Judaism & Islam," 2-4 January 2006

2005: Grant by San Francisco State University of $5,000.00 to organize the International Conference at Bar-Ilan University "Bridging the Worlds of Judaism & Islam," 2-4 January 2006

2005: Grant by Bar-Ilan University $25,000.00 to organize International Conference on Campus "Bridging the Worlds of Judaism & Islam," 2-4 January 2006 on the Occasion of the University's 50th Anniversary

2005: Grant by Bar-Ilan University's Faculty of Jewish Studies $2,500.00 to organize

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International Conference on Campus "Bridging the Worlds of Judaism and Islam," 2-4- January 2006 on the occasion of the University's 50th Anniversary

2005: Nomination as Honorary Member of the Governing Board of the American Biographical Institute, Raleigh, North Carolina (as of June 2005)

2005: Nomination and inclusion in Great Minds of the early 21th Century, a distinguished Publication of the American Biographical Institute, Raleigh, North Carolina (As of April 2005)

2005: Nomination as One of 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the Early 21st Century by the prestigious International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England, in the Field of Arts & Humanities (as of March 2005)

2000: $5,000 by Raphael Foundation (through Jamie and Mickey Shamah) for the Promotion of Syrian-Jewish Culture toward the book edited by Michael M. Laskier, Reeva S. Simon and Sara Reguer, The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times, published by Columbia University Press

1998: $2,500, by Ashqelon Academic College for book project entitled: Israel and the Maghreb: From Statehood to Oslo, published by the University Press of Florida

1998: $2,500 by Ashqelon Academic College of Bar-Ilan University for book edited by Michael M. Laskier, Reeva S. Simon and Sara Reguer: The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times, published by Columbia University Press

1998: $6,000 - Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, New York, for above book

1997/9: $40,000 - Maurice Amado Foundation, Los Angeles, for above book

1997: $3,000 - Memorial Foundation of Jewish Culture, for above book

1996 $10,000 - by the Alliance Israélite Universelle, for above book

1996: $7,500 - Ezra K. Zilkha Foundation, New York, for above book

1996: $3,000 - Davis Institute for International Relations, Hebrew University, for Israel and the Maghreb: From Statehood to Oslo, published by University Press of Florida

1995: $5,000 - Ben-Gurion Heritage Center of Ben-Gurion University, for the writing of a major book manuscript on Israel and the Aliya from North Africa: 1948-1970

1994: National Jewish Book Award of the Jewish Book Council, New York. Distinguished Award for outstanding books in Jewish/Middle Eastern studies, for book: North African Jewry in the 20th Century, New York University Press

1994: $750 - Maurice Amado Foundation for the National Jewish Book Award

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1986: $10,000 - Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture & Tel-Aviv University

1974: $3,000 - NDEA IV Grant for Arabic Language Studies

1973: $3,000 - NDEA IV Grant for Arabic Language Studies

HIGHER EDUCATION & MANAGEMENT ENDEAVORS:

 Listed in biographies of prominent and emerging writers for inclusion in Contemporary Authors, a directory published in the U.S. since 1962 (See Vol. 144, 1993)

 Biography/scholarly achievements in The Writer Directory, St. James Press, Detroit, Michigan

 Listed in biographies of emerging authors for inclusion in International Authors and Writers Who's Who - Fifteenth Edition, Cambridge, England

 Chair, Ashqelon Academic College Student Tuition & Scholarship Committee: October 1998-October 2001

 Chair, Ashqelon Academic College Dormitory Committee: June 1997-October 2001

 Chair, Ashqelon Academic College Learning Disabilities Committee: 2000-2002

 Member, Ashqelon Academic College’s Academic Council: June 2001-2002

 Member, Ashqelon Academic College’s Faculty Research Funding Committee: October 1996-2001

 Member, Ashqelon Academic College’s Faculty Appointment Committee: 1998- 2001

 Chair, Political Science Department, Ashqelon Academic College: September 1998 to September 2002

 Member, Facultative Ph.D. Committee at the Bar-Ilan University's Faculty of Jewish Studies on behalf the Middle East History Department: January 1, 2002- September 8, 2009  Member, Interdisciplinary Studies Committee, an appointment by the Academic Senate, Bar-Ilan University: October 2004-2006

 Member of the Central Doctoral Committee of Bar-Ilan University, under the Auspices of the University's Academic Senate: October 2005-December 2007

 Member of the Committee to Debate & Approve a Bachelor Degree-granting status in Middle Eastern Studies at the College of Netanya (a private college), appointed by

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Ms. Limor Livnat, Israel's former Minister of Education and Culture and head of the Israel Council for Higher Education (MALAG): June 2005-July 2006

 Member of the Higher Senate of Bar-Ilan University: January 2006 until retirement in September 2017

 Member of the Small Senate – chief academic decision-making body – at Bar-Ilan University: October 2009 - 2017

 Member of Supervisory Committee of the Israel Council for Higher Education at the Faculty of Jewish Studies, Bar-Ilan University, to Assess the Quality of the Department of Middle Eastern History and the Department of Eretz-Yisrael Studies, 2006-2007

 Member of the Senior Faculty Appointments Committee of Bar-Ilan University, October 2006-October 2009; 2015-2017

 Member of the Aharon and Rachel Dahan Research Center Academic Committee, Bar-Ilan University, April 2006-December 2007

 Director of the Menachem Begin Center/Endowed Chair for the Study of Underground Movements, Bar-Ilan University, June 2006- September 2016

 Member of a Special Committee that include Bar-Ilan University's Rector, Professor Yosef Menis, and Vice-President for Research, Professor Harold Basch, to Determine the Amount of Money to be disbursed to Faculty from Available Research Funds, December 2006-June 2007

 Serving from 2003 to 2017, either as Chairperson or Member of Faculty and Department preliminary and professional committees that deliberate on advancing scholars in rank and tenure (emphasis on faculties of Jewish Studies, Faculty of the Humanities, and the Social Sciences—Bar-Ilan University; also at Tel Aviv University and the University of Haifa )

 Member of the Nathan Rotenstreich Doctoral Dissertation Fund Council to disburse sizeable scholarship for Ph.D. students at Bar-Ilan University's Faculty of Jewish Studies, April 2007-April 2008

 Founder and First Director of the Mazat.Com: Lecture Forum at Bar-Ilan University's Department of Middle Eastern History for Israeli University Graduate Students – November 2007-June 2012

 Member of the Search Committee under the aegis of the Faculty of Jewish Studies and the Rector's Office, Bar-Ilan University, to debate the reappointment of Dean Professor Moshe Orfali, or nomination of an alternative Dean (May-June 2007)

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 Member of Jury judging the best book of the year for research on Israeli history for the prestigious Reuven Hecht Award, Haifa University, January-March 2009

 Member of professorial committee appointed by the Israel Council for Higher Education (MALAG) to determine the granting of academic accreditation to the Carmel Academic Institute: 25 February 2009-2010

 President of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Association of Israel (MEISAI): May 2011-September 2014

 Member of the Faculty Rank and tenure Appeals Committee of Bar-Ilan University, October 2011-2015

 Member of the Bar-Ilan University Press Book Manuscript Academic Selection and Publications Committee, October 2011-2016

 Academic Head, The Kinneret Academic College on the Sea of Galilee on behalf of Bar-Ilan University, October 2012-October 2017

 Member of the Academic Senate of Kinneret Academic College on the Sea of Galilee, October 2012-2017

 Member of the Inter-Universities Academic Autonomy Committee that works Closely with the Presidents of the Israeli Research Universities, the Minister of Education and the Council for Higher Education (MALAG). Elected as representative of Bar-Ilan by the University's Senate, 2015-2017

 Chair of the Student Discipline Committee at Kinneret Academic College on the Sea of Galilee, September 2012-September 2017

 Member of the Search Committee under the aegis of the Faculty of Jewish Studies and the Rector's Office, Bar-Ilan University to debate over the list of candidates for the position of Dean, May 2013

 Member of the Search Committee under the aegis of the Faculty of Jewish Studies and the Rector's Office, Bar-Ilan University to debate over the list of candidates for the position of Dean, June 2016

 Chair of the Middle Eastern Studies Department Doctoral Committee, 2015-2017

 Member of the International Committee for the Advancement of Sephardi Studies in North America, 2015-2017

 Member of the M.A. Outstanding Students Scholarship Committee at the Jewish Studies Faculty, Bar-Ilan University, named in Honor of the Citron Family, September 2018-

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 Chief Editor of the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Book Series, Sussex Academic Press in the United Kingdom, March 2019- (recent appointment)

SUPERVISER: MASTERS. THESES, PH.D. DISSERTATIONS, POST-DOCORALS

1998: Supervisor M.A. Thesis of Yosef Ben-Tolila, Student at Touro College/Lander Institute, Jerusalem Campus: Jews in 20th Century Spanish Morocco: Dispersion of the Tetuan Community (graduation 1999)

2002: Supervisor of PhD Dissertation of Yosef Ben-Toilla, Bar-Ilan University's Department of Jewish History: Jews in 20th Century Northern Morocco: Tangier & Tetuan (graduation 2008)

2002: Supervisor MA Thesis of Dalit Atrakchi, Bar-Ilan University's Middle East History Department: Allal al-Fasi and the Moroccan Nationalist Movement: 1930-1973 (graduated June 2004)

2003: Supervisor of MA Thesis of Gal Ben-Yishai, Bar-Ilan University's Middle East History Department: The Social and Political Thought of Egypt's Ihsan 'Abd al-Qaddus: 1940s - 1950s (completed, February 2006 – graduated 2006)

2003: Supervisor of PhD Dissertation of Omer Garfinkel, Bar-Ilan University's Middle Eastern History Department: Iraq and Great Britain: Political Relations & Common Interests, 1958-1963 (graduated 2007)

2003: Supervisor of PhD Dissertation of Yehuda Balanga, Bar-Ilan University's Middle Eastern History Department: Egyptian-American Relations in the Nixon Era, 1969-1974 (graduated 2008)

2003: Supervisor of MA Thesis of Liat Cohen, Bar-Ilan University's Middle Eastern History Department: The Palestine Liberation Organization and the United States: 1973-1979 (graduated 2009)

2004: Supervisor of PhD Dissertation of Rachel Noy, Bar-Ilan University’s Middle Eastern History Department: Aspects of Jewish History as Narrated in Egyptian Historiography (graduated 2007)

2004: Supervisor of MA Thesis of Muhammad Fuqra, Bar-Ilan University’s Middle Eastern History Department: Al-Jilani: A Sufi Thinker and Leader of the Qadiriyya Movement (graduated 2005) 2004: Supervisor of MA Thesis of Maya Dahan, Bar-Ilan University’s Middle Eastern History Department: Syria and Egypt - Economic Relations, 1958-1963 (graduated 2008)

2005: Supervisor of MA Thesis of Yahel Sharabi, Bar-Ilan University’s Middle Eastern History Department: U.S.-Algerian Relations during the 1950s and 1960s in the Shadow of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (graduated 2006)

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2005: Supervisor of PhD Dissertation of Hanuch Bazov, Bar-Ilan University's Middle Eastern History Department: The Soviet Union and Leftist Palestinian Organizations: 1968-1983 (graduated 2008)

2006: Supervisor of MA Thesis by Barak Kaminsky, Bar-Ilan University's Middle Eastern History Department: Iraq under Qassem and its Relations with Egypt, 1958-1963 (graduated 2008; working at the Israeli Prime Minister's Office)

2006: External Co-Supervisor with Professor Raphael Israeli of PhD dissertation by Lior Bibi of the Middle East Studies Program, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Egypt's Butrus Butrus Ghali and his Diplomatic and Political Career in the Latter Half of the 20th Century (graduated 2008). Pursued post-doctoral studies at Johns Hopkins University, 2008-2009; works at Kol-Yisrael News Radio)

2006: Supervisor of MA Thesis by Assaf Ziedler, Bar-Ilan University's Middle Eastern History Department: Missed Opportunities?: Israeli-Egyptian Peace Settlement Efforts of the Early 1970s (graduated June 2009)

2006: Supervisor of PhD dissertation by Yahel Sharabi, Bar-Ilan University's Middle Eastern History Department: U.S.- Algerian Relations – 1962-1978 (graduated June 2011)

2006: Supervisor of PhD dissertation by Dalit Atrakchi, Bar-Ilan University's Middle Eastern History Department: Women's Role in Moroccan Politics: 1956-2000 (graduation 2013)

2006: Supervisor of PhD Dissertation of Ariela Hezi-Eskenazi, Bar-Ilan University's Middle Eastern History Department: The Arab Minority in Jaffa – 1948 to 1979 (graduated 2013)

2007: Supervisor of PhD dissertation by Gal Ben-Ishai, Bar-Ilan University's Middle Eastern History Department: The Wafd Party in Egypt under the Leadership of Mustafa al-Nahhas Pasha and Fu'ad Serraj al-Din in the Final Years of the Ancien Régime: 1942-1952 (graduated 2012)

2008: Supervisor of PhD dissertation by Yinon Shlomo, Bar-Ilan University's Middle Eastern Studies Department: American-Syrian Relations, 1966-1974 (graduated 2013)

2008: Supervisor of PhD dissertation by Yaffa Blond, Bar-Ilan University's Middle Eastern Studies Department: Islamism in Egypt through the Lenses of the Egyptian Press (graduated 2018)

2008: Supervisor of PhD dissertation by Nathan'el Avneri, Bar-Ilan University's Middle Eastern Studies Department: U.S.- Iraqi Relations, 1968-1975: Iraq's Ba'th Regime and the Nixon and Ford Administrations (graduated 2013)

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2009: Supervisor of PhD dissertation by Iris Tzedek, Bar-Ilan University's Arabic Studies Department: Bedouin Women of Northern Israel and their Acculturation to Modernization [Study of key villages]. (Graduated 2016)

2009: Supervisor of PhD dissertation by Orit Miller, Bar-Ilan University's Middle Eastern Studies Department: Israel, the United States and the Kingdom of Jordan: The Struggle over Influence in the West Bank of the Jordan (graduated 2012)

2010: Supervisor of PhD dissertation by Assaf Zeidler, Bar-Ilan University's Middle Eastern Studies Department: The Iron Triangle: Israel, Egypt and the US, 1970- 1974 (graduated 2013)

2011: Supervisor of MA Thesis by Leiza Koch, Bar-Ilan University's Middle Eastern Studies Department: Comparative Anti-Semitism in the Arab World: The Case of the Arab Sector in Israel (graduated 2013)

2011: Co-Supervisor of PhD dissertation by Dror Manor, Bar-Ilan University's Political Science Department: Saudi-Egyptian Relations and U.S. Policy in the Arabian Peninsula, 1956-1973 (graduated 2015)

2012: Supervisor of PhD dissertation by Nirit Ofir, Bar-Ilan University's Middle Eastern Studies Department: Comparative Dynastic Power in Contemporary Arab Societies: Morocco, Jordan, and Syria as Case Studies (graduated 2018)

2013: Supervisor of PhD dissertation by Ariel Koch, Bar-Ilan University's Middle Eastern Studies Department: The Social Networks Websites and Europe's Young Muslims (graduated in 2018).

2017: Supervisor of PhD dissertation by Nitza Tuchman, Bar-Ilan University's Jewish Studies Department: Libyan Jewry since the End of World War II (In progress)

2018: Supervisor of PhD dissertation by Yafit Azar, Bar-Ilan University's Middle Eastern Studies Department: Israeli-Moroccan Ties: From the Oslo Process to the Present (In Progress)

Post Doctorate

2013: Supervisor, Post-Doctoral Studies of Dr. Orit Miller under the auspices of the Menachem Begin Institute for the Study of Resistance Movements. Completed, October 2016

2014: Supervisor, Post-Doctoral Studies of Dr. Eddy Cohen under the auspices of the Menachem Begin Institute for the Study of Resistance Movements. Completed

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October 2016

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS - # of Citations in Google Scholar = 758

I. Books and Edited Works

*Published Authored & Edited Books:

1. Michael M. Laskier, The Alliance Israélite Universelle and the Jewish Communities of Morocco: 1862-1962. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983. 372+ xvi pp., hardcover & paperback editions simultaneously.

2. Michael M. Laskier, North African Jewry in the Shadow of Vichy and the Swastika. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press, 1992, 376 + vii pp., in paperback [In Hebrew]

3. Michael M. Laskier, The Jews of Egypt, 1920-1970: In the Midst of Zionism, Antisemitism and the Middle East Conflict. New York & London: New York University Press, 1992, 327+ xiv pp., in hardcover (sold out October 1996), and 2nd Ed, paperback edition sold out [excellent review in Choice]

4. Michael M. Laskier (ed.), Sephardi Jews before and after 1492. Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. Lafayette: Purdue University Press, Volume 10 (Spring 1992), 212 pages.

5. Michael M. Laskier, North African Jewry in the 20th Century: Jews of Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. New York & London: New York University Press, 1994. 400+xvi pp., in hardcover & 2nd Edition paperback (1997)

******Winner of the 1994 American National Jewish Book Award******

6. Michael Menachem Laskier, Reeva Spector Simon, Sara Reguer (eds. and co- writers) The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003, 549 + xxiii pp., in hardcover and paperback editions simultaneously.

7. Michael M. Laskier, Israel and the Maghreb: From Statehood to Oslo. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004, 368 pp., in cloth (excellent review in Choice]

8. Michael M. Laskier, Israel and the Aliya from North Africa, 1948-1970. Sde-Boqer: Ben-Gurion University Press, 2006. In Hebrew, 638 pp. ******Winner of the 2008 Renée and Nissim Gaon Book Award******

9. Michael M. Laskier and Yaacov Lev (editors), The Convergence of Judaism and Islam: The Religious, Scientific and Cultural Dimensions. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011, 352 pp.

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10. Michael M. Laskier and Yaakov Lev (editors), The Divergence of Judaism and Islam: Interdependence, Modernity and Political Turmoil. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011, 368 pp.

11. Michael M. Laskier and Ronen Yitzhak (editors and authors), Security and Political Challenges Put to the Test: Israel in the Arab and International Arenas. In Hebrew (Bar-Ilan University Press, 2012), 620 pp.

12. Michael M. Laskier and Hanoch Bazov, Terrorism on Behalf of the Revolution: The Palestine Liberation Organization and the Soviet Union, 1968-1991. In Hebrew (Bar-Ilan University Press, 2016), 214 pp.

*Book Accepted for Publication and Undergoing Editing:

13. Ze'ev Drori and Michael M. Laskier (eds.), As the Earth Trembled: The Yom Kippur War and Israeli Society (Bar-Ilan University Press, in Hebrew; accepted for editing and subsequent publication.

*Books Accepted for Publication and Undergoing Translation into French:

14. Michael M. Laskier, Judaism within the Realm of Islam: Egyptian Jewry From the Seventh Century to the Modern Period. (Paris: Albin Michel); The Aladin Project, In process of being translated into French. A Project under the auspices of the Elysée Palace [350 pages]

*Book Writing Nearing Completion:

15. Michael M. Laskier and Ze'ev Drori (eds.), As the Earth Trembled: Israel and the Arab World in the Pre-1973 Yom Kippur War, during the War, and in its Aftermath, 1967 -1977 (to be submitted to Bar-Ilan University Press, in Hebrew, 4-15-2020

*Books in Different Stages of Writing:

16. Michael M. Laskier, French Jewry, 1945-2015: A Portrait of a European Jewish Community in Modern Times [contracted, Sussex Academic Press], estimated 700 pp.

17. Michael M. Laskier and Ronen Yitzhak, Israel and the Mediterranean: Five Decades of Uneasy Coexistence. [contract, Sussex Academic Press, est. 450 pp]. Covering Mashreq, Maghreb, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, France, Italy, and Spain. *Books Completed and Submitted to a Publisher: None Yet.

II. Refereed Chapters in Books:

18. Michael M. Laskier, “The Jews of Morocco and the Alliance Israélite Universelle: Selected Documents,” Simon Schwarzfuchs (editor), Mi-Mizrah u-Mi-Ma’arav III. Bar-Ilan University Press, 1981: 7-24 [Hebrew + English]

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19. Michael M. Laskier, “The Alliance Israélite Universelle and the Struggle for Recognition within Moroccan Jewish Society,” Issachar Ben-Ami (ed.), The Sepharadi and Oriental Jewish Heritage: Studies. Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, 1982: 191-212.

20. Michael M. Laskier, “Aspects of Change and Modernization: The Jewish Communities of Morocco’s Bled,” Michael Abitbol (ed.) Communautés juives des marges sahariennes du Maghreb. Jérusalem: Institut Ben-Zvi, 1982: 329-364

21. Michael M. Laskier, “Anglo-French Jewry and the Jews of Morocco, 1862-1880,” Les Relations Intercommunautaires Juives en Méditerranée Occidentale. Jean-Louis Miège, editeur. Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1984: 129-141

22. Michael M. Laskier, “Samuel Daniel Lévy and Moise Nahon: Two Sephardi Leaders in Modern Moroccan History,” in Shlomo Simonsohn (ed.), Michael: Studies on the Jews of the Diaspora, Book IX, 1985. Tel Aviv University, 1985: 51-96

23. Michael M. Laskier, “The Jewish Agency and the Jews of Morocco and Tunisia,” in: Proceedings of the Ninth World Congress of Jewish Studies. Jerusalem: The Magnes Press and World Union of Jewish Studies, 1986: 91-96

24. Michael M. Laskier, “Y.D. Sémach and Moroccan Jewry,” Yosef Chetrit (ed.), Mi-Qedem u-Mi-Yam II. Haifa: Haifa University Press, 1986: 169-186. [Hebrew]

25. Michael M. Laskier, “A Document on Anglo-Jewry’s Intervention on Behalf of Egyptian Jews on Trial for Espionage and Sabotage: December 1954,” in Shlomo Simonsohn (ed.), Michael: Studies on the Jews of the Diaspora, Book X, 1986. Tel Aviv University, 1986: 143-152

26. Michael M. Laskier, “Muslims and Jews in Morocco: Similarities and Contrasts in the Influence of French Education and Culture in French Morocco – 1912-1956,” in Moshe Gil and Akiva Friedman (eds.), Teuda IV. Tel Aviv: Tel-Aviv University, 1986: 247-260 [Hebrew]

27.Michael M. Laskier, “The Alliance Israélite Universelle and the Social Conditions of the Jewish Communities of Morocco and Palestine, 1860-1914,” in: Simon Schwarzfuchs (ed.), L'Alliance Israélite Universelle dans les communautés du basin méditerrranéen à la fin du 19eme siècle. Edité par Simon Schwarzfuchs. Misgav Yerushalayim Press, 1987: lxxi-lxxxviii 28.Michael M. Laskier, “L'Intervention des Juifs de France dans l'aliyah d'afrique du nord,1948-1955,” Doris Bensimon and Benjamin Pinkus (eds.), Les juifs de France, le sionisme et l'état d'Israel Paris: Publication Langues O', 1989: 487-527.

29.Michael M. Laskier, “Egyptian Jewry under the Nasser Regime,” Yosef Chetrit (ed.) Miqedem u-Mi-Yam III. Haifa University Press, 1990: 213-252 [Hebrew]

30.Michael M. Laskier, “The Jews of France and North African Jewry: The Alliance

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Israélite Universelle's Political Encounters with the French-Educated Elite of Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria, 1919-1939,” Issachar Ben-Ami (ed.), Recherches sur la culture des juifs d'afrique du nord. Jérusalem: Communauté israélite nord-africaine, 1991: lxxxiii - xcviii

31.Michael M. Laskier, “French Jewry and Israel: Involvement in the Aliya from North Africa, 1948-1955,” in Benjamin Pinkus and Doris Bensimon (eds.), Yahadut Sarfat, Ha-Tsyionut u-Medinat Yisrael. Sede Boqer: Moreshet Ben-Gurion & Ben-Gurion University, 1992:341-365 [Hebrew]

32. Michael M. Laskier, “Algeria Holds First Free Multi-Party Elections Since Independence [The Emergence of the Islamic Salvation Front],” Great Events From History. Pasadena: Salem Press, 1992: 2583-2588

33. Michael M. Laskier, “Sephardi Jews in America,” in the Marshall Cavendish Encyclopedia of Multiculturalism in America. Pasadena: Salem Press, 1994: 222-224

34. Michael M. Laskier, “Palestinian Immigrants in America,” Encyclopedia of Multiculturalism in America. Pasadena: Salem Press, 1994: 1288-1291

35. Michael M. Laskier, “Arab Americans - Cultural and Political Influence,” Encyclopedia of American Multiculturalism. Pasadena: Salem Press, 1994: 161-168

36. Michael M. Laskier, “Palestinian Arab Americans,” Encyclopedia of Multiculturalism in America. Pasadena: Salem Press, 1994: 169-176

37. Michael M. Laskier, “Jewish Communities in America,” Encyclopedia of Multiculturalism in America. Pasadena: Salem Press, 1994: 962-967 (Emphasis on Los Angeles, New York, Chicago)

38. Michael M. Laskier, “Anti-Semitism in the United States,” Encyclopedia of Multiculturalism in America. Pasadena: Salem Press, 1994: 155-160

39. Michael M. Laskier, “Race & Ethnicity: Anti-Semitism in the West,” Magill's Ready Reference in Ethics. James L. Magill, Ed. Pasadena: Salem Press, 1994: 42-44

40. Michael M. Laskier, “Albert Antébi and the Second Aliya,” in Ze’ev Tzahor (ed.), The Second Aliya: Biographies. Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi, 1997: 280-287 [Hebrew]

41. Michael M. Laskier, “The State of Israel and Moroccan Jewry Entangled in the Complex Web of Moroccan Politics: 1955-1960,” in Minna Rozen, Shlomo Simonsohn, Yehuda Nini (eds.), Michael XIV. Tel Aviv: Diaspora Research Institute, Tel-Aviv University, 1997: 312-348 [Hebrew]

42. Michael M. Laskier, “Al-Mehdi’s Jews: Mehdi Ben Barka and his Jewish Allies in Morocco, 1953-1961,” Haim Saadon and Joseph Chetrit (ed.), Mi-Qedem u-Mi-Yam VII: Maghrebi and Middle Eastern Jews in the 20th Century –

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Mutations and Trends in the Diaspora and in Israel. Haifa: Haifa University Press, 2000: 307-324 [Hebrew]

43. Michael M. Laskier, “Viewing the 'Other': Sephardic/Oriental Jewry and Zionism in Modern Arabic Political and Journalistic Writing in the 1960s and 1970s,” in Benjamin H. Hary, John L. Hayes, Fred Astren (eds.), Judaism and Islam: Boundaries ,Communication and Interaction: Essays in Honor of William M. Brinner. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2000: 111-122.

44. Michael M. Laskier, “The Land of Israel and the State of Israel in the Consciousness of the Twentieth-Century Egyptian Jewish Elite,” in W. Ze'ev Harvey, Galit Hasan-Rokem, Haim Saadoun, Amnon Shiloah (eds.), Zion and Zionism among Sephardi and Oriental Jews. Jerusalem: Misgav Yerushalayim, 2002: 443-459 [Hebrew]

45. Michael M. Laskier, “Syrian and Lebanese Jewry: 19th-20th Centuries,” in Michael M. Laskier, Reeva S. Simon, Sara Reguer (eds.), The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003:316-334

46. Michael M. Laskier, Sara Reguer, Haim Sa’adoun, “Community Leadership and Structure,” Michael M. Laskier, Reeva S. Simon, Sara Reguer (eds.), The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003: 49-64.

47. Michael M. Laskier and Eliezer Bashan, “Moroccan Jewry in the 19th and 20th Centuries,” Michael M. Laskier, Reeva S. Simon, Sara Reguer (eds.), The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003: 471-504.

48. Michael M. Laskier, Reeva S. Simon, Sara Reguer, Introductory Chapter: “Social, Economic, Political, Cultural and Linguistic Components,” in: Michael M. Laskier, Reeva S. Simon, Sara Reguer (eds.), The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003: vii-xi.

49. Michael M. Laskier and Reeva S. Simon, “Jewish Economy under Islam,” Chapter in Michael M. Laskier, Reeva Simon, Sara Reguer (eds.), The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003: 29-48.

50. Michael M. Laskier, “Jewish Education in Morocco,” in Haim Saadoun (ed.), The Jewish Community of Morocco during the 19th & 20th Centuries. Jerusalem: The Ben-Zvi Institute, 2003: 129-142 [Hebrew]

51. Michael M. Laskier, “The Sephardic Educational Center: Crisis of Identity and Assimilation in Modern America Judaism,” George K. Zucker (ed.), Sephardic Identity: Essays on a Vanishing Jewish Culture. Jefferson, North Carolina and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2005: 207-214.

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52. Michael M. Laskier, “The Jewish Leadership in Morocco from the Mid-Fifties to the End of the Seventies: Inter-Community Crises and Political and Social Challenges,” in Moises Orfali and Ephraim Hazan (eds.), Progress and Tradition: Creativity, Leadership and Acculturation Processes among the Jews of North Africa. Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute, 2005: 64-79 [Hebrew]

53. Michael M. Laskier, "Islamic Radicalism and Terrorism in the European Union: The Maghrebi Factor," Hillel Frisch & Efraim Inbar (eds.), Radical Islam and International Security. London & New York: Routledge, 2008: 93-120

54. Michael M. Laskier, "Les nouveaux mouvements sociaux," in Alain Dieckhoff (ed.), L'Etat d'Israel. Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 2008: 123-135

55. Michael M. Laskier, “Israeli-Tunisian Ties: The 1950s & 1960s," Ephraim Hazan & Haim Saadon (eds.), Tarshish: Jews of Tunisia-Heritage, History, Literature. Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2009:149-190 [Hebrew]

56. Michael M. Laskier, "Solidarité et défense des droits des juifs (1860-1914)," in André Caspi (ed.), Histoire de l'Alliance Israélite Universelle de 1860 à nos jours. Paris: Armand Colin, 2010: 101-155

57. Michael M. Laskier, "French Jewry at the Height of the Franco-Israeli Political Crisis, 1967-1974" Analysis & Documents," in Yosef Tobi and Dennis Curzon (eds.) Research on East and West: Language, Literature and History in Honor of Professor Yosef Chetrit. Haifa: University of Haifa and Jerusalem: Carmel Press, 2011, Volume 2: 567-622

58. Michael M. Laskier and Yaacov Lev, Chapter One: "Introduction," in Michael M. Laskier and Yaacov Lev (eds.), The Convergence of Judaism and Islam: The Religious, Scientific and Cultural Dimensions. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011: 1-9

59. Michael M. Laskier and Yaacov Lev, Chapter One: "Introduction," in Michael M. Laskier and Yaacov Lev (eds.), The Divergence of Judaism and Islam: Interdependence, Modernity, and Political Turmoil. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011: 1-13

60. Michael M. Laskier and Ronen Yitzhak, "Introductory Chapter on Diplomatic and Defense issues," in Michael M. Laskier and Ronen Yitzhak (eds.), Security and Political Challenges Put to the Test: Israel in the Arab and International Arenas. Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2012: 9-31 [Hebrew]

61. Michael M. Laskier, "From an Unwritten Alliance to Gloomy Relations: French- Israeli Ties in the Days of Charles de Gaulle and Georges Pompidou," in Michael M. Laskier and Ronen Yitzhak (eds.), Security and Political Challenges Put to the Test: Israel in the Arab and International Arenas. Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2012: 341-382 [Hebrew]

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62. Michael M. Laskier, "The Relations between Israel and Tunisia in the Complex Web of the Arab-Israeli Conflict and Inter-Arab Politics," in Michael M. Laskier and Ronen Yitzhak (eds.), Security and Political Challenges Put to the Test: Israel in the Arab and International Arenas. Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2012: 491-530

63. Michael M. Laskier, "Le départ des juifs du monde musulman," in Abdelwahab Meddeb and Benjamin Stora (eds.), Histoire des relations entre juifs et musulmans des origines à nos jours. Paris: Editions Albin Michel, 2013: 415-433

64. Michael M. Laskier, "The Emigration of the Jews from the Arab World," in Abdelwahab Meddeb and Benjamin Stora (eds.), A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations: From the Origins to the Present Day. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013: 415-432

65. Michael M. Laskier, “Libyan Jewish Aliyah: From Pre-1948 Eretz-Yisrael until Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi's Rise to Power,” in Moshe Halamish, Moshe Amar and Maurice Roumani (eds.), The Jews of Algeria and Libya. Publications of the Dahan Center – Bar-Ilan University, 2014: 257-304 [Hebrew]

66. Michael M. Laskier, "L'oeuvre diplomatique et politique de l'alliance israélite universelle et le judaïsme marocain pendant la période précoloniale, in Simon Schwarzfuchs & Paul Fenton (eds.), Le judaïsme français et les communautés juives du Maghreb. Paris: Armand Colin [in press]

III. Book Chapters in Volumes: Non-Refereed

67.Michael M. Laskier, “The Aliya and Haganah in Egypt: 1946-1949,” in Haim Sa’adoun and Joel Rappel (eds.), Zionist Undergrounds in Muslim Countries. Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 1997: 141-159 [Hebrew]

68.Michael M. Laskier, “Secret Immigration and Underground Activity: Morocco,” Haim Sa’adoun (ed.), Open and Secret: Mass Immigration to Israel from Muslim Lands, 1948-1967. Jerusalem: The Ben-Avi Institute, 1999: 155-170 [Hebrew]

69.Michael M. Laskier, “Secret Departure from Egypt until the Eve of the Six Day War,” Haim Sa’adoun (ed.), Open and Secret: Mass Immigration to Israel from Muslim Lands, 1948-1967. The Ben-Zvi Institute, 1999: 129-140 [Hebrew]

70.Michael M. Laskier, “Qadimah – From Morocco to Israel, 1949-1956,” Haim Sa’adoun (ed.), Open and Secret: Mass Immigration to Israel from Muslim Lands, 1948-1967. Jerusalem: The Ben-Zvi Institute, 1999: 79-94 [Hebrew]

71.Michael M. Laskier, “The Jews of Morocco in Israeli Society Then and Now: The Pains of Integration and Politico-Cultural Challenges,” in Avshalom Mizrahi (ed.), Society and Culture in Israel – The First Fifty Years. Netanya: The Society for the

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Preservation of Culture, Documentation and Research, 2001: 492-508 [Hebrew]

72.Michael M. Laskier, "Tunisia since the "Arab Spring" Revolution of January 2011 in Comparison with Egypt, Morocco and Algeria: New Perspectives," in a new Internet Web on Tunisia and Tunisian Jewry, 2011, pp. 1-6

IV. Refereed Articles in Journals and their Ranking

73. Michael M. Laskier, “Moise Nahon: un intellectuel juif marocain,” Les Nouveaux Cahiers 61 (Eté 1980): 19-24. Revue d'études et de libres debates publiée sous les auspices de l'Alliance Israélite Universelle [French] B

74. Michael M. Laskier, “Aspects of the Activities of the Alliance Israélite Universelle in the Jewish Communities of the Middle East and North Africa: 1860-1918,” Modern Judaism, 3, 3 (May 1983): 147-172. Oxford University Press A+

75. Michael M. Laskier, “The Evolution of Zionist Activity in the Jewish Communities of North Africa: 1897-1947,” Journal of Israeli History, 8, Fall 1983: 205-236. Johns Hopkins University Press A

76. Michael M. Laskier, “Avraham Albert Antébi – Aspects of His Work in Eretz-Yisrael between 1897 and 1914,” Pe’amim, 21 (December 1984): 50-82 [Hebrew] A

77. Michael M. Laskier, “Zionism in the Jewish Communities of Morocco: 1956-1962,” Journal of Israeli History, 11 (Spring 1985): 119-139. Johns Hopkins University Press A

78. Michael M. Laskier, “North Africa’s Jews during the Second World War,” Yalkut Moreshet, 40 (December 1985): 15-40 [Hebrew] Published by Sifriat Po’alim A

79. Michael M. Laskier, “From War to War: The Jewish Communities of Egypt between 1948 and 1970,” Journal of Israeli History, 13 (Spring 1986): 111-147. Johns Hopkins University Press A

80. Michael M. Laskier, “The Political Instability of Moroccan Jewry and the Moroccan Press in the First Decade after Independence,” Jewish History, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1986): 39-54. Haifa University Press A

81. Michael M. Laskier, “The Jews of Egypt in the 1930s and 1940s,” Yalkut Moreshet, 43-44 (August 1987): 209-232 [Hebrew] A 82. Michael M. Laskier, “From Hafsia to Bizerte: Tunisia's Nationalist Struggle and Tunisian Jewry, 1952-1961,” Mediterranean Historical Review, Vol. 2, No. 2 (December 1987): 188-222. Frank Cass, London A

83. Michael M. Laskier, “Political and Organizational Components of Aliya from Morocco, 1949-1956,” Ha-Tsyionut 12 (1987): 333-367. Tel-Aviv Univ [Hebrew] B+

84. Michael M. Laskier, “The Jews of the Maghreb in World War II: Review Essay

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Article on Michel Abitbol’s Book,” Tsyion: Quarterly Journal of the Israel Historical Society, 53rd Year, No. 2 (1988): 226-232 [Hebrew], A+

85. Michael M. Laskier, “Jewish Emigration from Morocco to Israel: Government Policies and the Position of International Jewish Organizations, 1949-1956,” Middle Eastern Studies, 25,3 (July 1989): 323-364. Frank Cass Publishers, London A

86. Michael M. Laskier, “The Aliya of Moroccan Jewry to Israel: The Policies of the Moroccan Government and International Jewish Organizations, 1949-1956,” in: Yitzhak Avrahami (ed.), Shorashim Ba-Mizrah II. Ha-Kibbutz ha-Meuhad & Yad Tabenkin, 1989: 315-368. [Hebrew] B

87. Michael M. Laskier, “Egyptian Jewry in the Post-World War II Period: 1945-1948,” Revue des Etudes Juives, Juillet - Decembre 1989): 337-361. Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique A+

88. Michael M. Laskier, “Developments in the Jewish Communities of Morocco: 1956- 1976,” Middle Eastern Studies, 26, 4 (1990): 465-505. Frank Cass Publishers, London, A

89. Michael M. Laskier, “Les deux terres promises: les juifs de France et le sionisme” – Review Essay of Book by Michel Abitbol in International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 23, No. 4 (November 1991): 636-640 Cambridge University Press A+

90. Michael M. Laskier, “The Jews in Independent Morocco: Governmental Policies and International Jewish Organizations, 1956-1976,” Yitzhak Avrahami (ed.), Shorashim Ba-Mizrah III. Yad Tabenkin, 1991: 161-212. [Hebrew] B

91. Michael M. Laskier, “Between Vichy Antisemitism and German Harassment: The Jews of North Africa during the Early 1940's,” Modern Judaism, 11,3 (October 1991): 343-369. Oxford University Press A+

92. Michael M. Laskier, “Egypt and Beyond” – Review Essay Article on Jews of Arab Lands in Modern Times," Association for Jewish Studies Review, XVI, 1-2 (1991): 199-210. Cambridge University Press A+

93. Michael M. Laskier, “The Sephardim and the Yishuv in Palestine: The Role of Avraham Albert Antébi: 1897-1916,” in Michael M. Laskier (guest editor), Sephardi Jews before and after 1492, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 10,3 (Spring 1992): 113-126. Published by Purdue University Press. B+ 94. Michael M. Laskier, “Present-Day Sephardi Jewry: Update,” Jewish Journal of Sociology, 35,2 (1993): 135-140. The Maurice Freedman Foundation, B+

95. Michael M. Laskier, “Egyptian Jewry under the Nasser Regime, 1954-1970,” Middle Eastern Studies, 21,3 (July 1995): 573-619. Frank Cass Publishers, London A

96. Michael M. Laskier, “Clandestine Aliya from Morocco: A Chapter on Muslim-Jewish Ties in Morocco,” Pe’amim, 63 (Spring 1995): 132-159 [Hebrew]. A

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The following refereed articles were published in Reeva S. Simon, Philip Mattar, Richard W. Bulliet (eds.), Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East. (4 vols.), 1st Edition. New York: Macmillan, Simon & Shuster and Prentice Hall, 1996, no ranking available:

97. Michael M. Laskier, “Tangier”

98. Michael M. Laskier, “Alliance Israélite Universelle”

99. Michael M. Laskier, “Jewish Refugees from Arab Lands”

100.Michael M. Laskier, “Léon Castro”

101.Michael M. Laskier, “Curiel Family”

102.Michael M. Laskier, “Murad Faraj”

103.Michael M. Laskier, “Farhi Family”

104.Michael M. Laskier, “Hayyim Habshush”

105.Michael M. Laskier, “Elie Politi”

106.Michael M. Laskier, “Yihya Qafih”

107.Michael M. Laskier, “Qattawi Family”

108.Michael M. Laskier, “Rolo Family”

109.Michael M. Laskier, “Suarès Family”

110.Michael M. Laskier, “De Menasce Family”

111.Michael M. Laskier, “Hayyim Nahum Effendi”

112. Michael M. Laskier, “Elie Hadria-Cohen”

113.Michael M. Laskier, “Albert Saguès”

114.Michael M. Laskier, “World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries”.

115.Michael M. Laskier, “In the Shadow of the Arab-Israeli Conflict and Arab Nationalism: Muslim-Jewish Ties in Syria, 1948-1970,” Pe’amim, 66 (1996): 70-127 [Hebrew], A

116.Michael M. Laskier, “The Jewish Press in Egypt in the Inter-War Years: Israel,” Bulletin of the Israeli Academic Center in Cairo, 23 (Spring 1998): 11-15, B

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117.Michael M. Laskier, “The Regeneration of French Jewry: The Influx and Integration of North African Jews into France, 1955-1965,” Jewish Political Studies Review, 10, 1-2, (Spring 1998): 35-72. The Jerusalem Institute for Public Affairs, A

118. Michael M. Laskier, “The Israeli Mossad and Muslim-Jewish Coexistence in Colonial Algeria: The Constantine Affair of 12-13 May 1956,” Pe’amim, 75 (Spring 1998): 129-143, A

119. Michael M. Laskier, “Israel and the Maghreb at the Height of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1950s – 1970s,” Middle East Review of International Affairs, 4,2 (June 2000): 96-108. The of Begin-Sadat Center, Bar-Ilan University, no ranking available

120. Michael M. Laskier, “Israeli Activism American-Style: Civil Liberties, Environmental and Peace Organizations as Pressure Groups for Social Change, 1970s-1990s,” Israel Studies, 5,1 (spring 2000): 128-152. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, A

121. Michael M. Laskier, “Israel and Algeria amid French Colonialism and the Arab- Israeli Conflict, 1954-1978,” Israel Studies, 6,2 (fall 2001): 1-32. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, A

122. Michael M. Laskier, “Between Bourguibism and Nasserism: Israeli-Tunisian Relations and the Arab-Israeli Conflict in the 1950s and 1960s,” Iyyunim be-Tkumat Yisrael, XI. (2001): 46-79. Sede Boqer: Merkaz le-Heker Moreshet Ben-Gurion, B

123. Michael M. Laskier, “A Difficult Inheritance: Moroccan Society under King Muhammad VI,” Middle East Review of International Affairs, Vol. 7, No. 3 (September 2003): 1-20. Published under the auspices of the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliyya, No ranking available

124. Michael M. Laskier, “Israeli-Moroccan Relations and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1977-2002,” Israel Affairs, Volume 10, No. 3 (spring 2004), 41-73. London: Frank Cass Publications-Taylor & Francis Group, B+

125. Michael M. Laskier, “Muhammad VI,” in Philip Mattar (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa (2nd edition) New York: Macmillan USA, 2004, No ranking available

126. Michael M. Laskier, “Alawite Dynasty in Morocco,” in Philip Mattar (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa (2nd edition) New York: Macmillan USA, 2004, No ranking available

127. Michael M. Laskier, “Habib Bourguiba,” in Philip Mattar (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa (2nd edition) New York: Macmillan USA 2004, No ranking available

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128. Michael M. Laskier, “Algerian Political Parties,” in Philip Mattar (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa (2nd edition) New York: Macmillan USA, 2004, No ranking available

129. Michael M. Laskier, “The Processes of Democratization, Reformism, and Islamist Protest in Morocco of the Last Decade,” Hamizrah He-Hadash, Vol XLVI (2006): 151-182 [Hebrew] The Magnes Press, A

130. Michael M. Laskier, “Arab States and Israel,” New Ed. of Encyclopedia Judaica (100 pp.) New York: Macmillan USA [articles 120-146 published in 2007], no ranking available

131. Michael M. Laskier, “Agadir (city, Mor.),” new edition Encyclopedia Judaica,

132. Michael M. Laskier, “Aghlabids,” new edition of Encyclopedia Judaica

133. Michael M. Laskier, “Almohads,” new edition of Encyclopedia Judaica

134. Michael M. Laskier, “Almoravids,” new edition of Encyclopedia Judaica

135. Michael M. Laskier, “Bone (city, Alg.),” new edition of Encyclopedia Judaica

136. Michael M. Laskier, “Debdou (city, Mor.),” new edition of Encyclopedia Judaica

137. Michael M. Laskier, “Demnat (city, Mor.),” new edition of Encyclopedia Judaica

138. Michael M. Laskier, “Hafsids,” new edition of Encyclopedia Judaica

139. Michael M. Laskier, “Marrakesh (city, Mor.),”new edition Encyclopedia Judaica

140. Michael M. Laskier, “Merinids,” new edition of Encyclopedia Judaica

141. Michael M. Laskier, “Mogador,” new edition of Encyclopedia Judaica

142. Michael M. Laskier, "Ofran (Ifrane, Mor)," new edition of Encyclopedia Judaica

143. Michael M. Laskier, "Meknes (city, Mor)," new edition of Encyclopedia Judaica

144. Michael M. Laskier, "Morocco," new edition of Encyclopedia Judaica (50pp.)

145. Michael M. Laskier, "Mzab (region, Alg.),” new edition of Encyclopedia Judaica

146. Michael M. Laskier, “Oran (city in Alg.),” new edition of Encyclopedia Judaica

147. Michael M. Laskier, “Ryvel (Tun.),” new edition of Encyclopedia Judaica

148. Michael M. Laskier, Sa’adi Dynasty,” new edition of Encyclopedia Judaica

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149. Michael M. Laskier, “Safi (city, Mor.),” new edition of Encyclopedia Judaica

150. Michael M. Laskier, "Salé-Rabat (Mor)," new edition of Encyclopedia Judaica

151. Michael M. Laskier, "Sous (region, Mor)," new edition of Encyclopedia Judaica

152. Michael M. Laskier, "Tangier (city, Mor)," new edition of Encyclopedia Judaica

153. Michael M. Laskier, "Tetuan (city, Mor)," new edition of Encyclopedia Judaica

154. Michael M. Laskier, “Wattasids,” new edition of Encyclopedia Judaica

155. Michael M. Laskier, “Zirids, “new edition of Encyclopedia Judaica

156. Michael M. Laskier, “Ziyanids,” Encyclopedia Judaica

157. Michael M. Laskier, "Local Jewry and Jewish Refugees in French Morocco and Tunisia during World War II," Pe'amim, 114-115 (Winter-Spring 2008): 55-106, A

158. Michael M. Laskier, "Cattaoui Family," Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2010, no ranking available

159. Michael M. Laskier, "Ittihad-Maroc,"Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2010, no tanking available

160. Michael M. Laskier, "Otzar ha-Torah," Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2010, no raking availabe.

161. Michael M. Laskier, "Lubavitch," Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2010, no raking available

162. Michael M. Laskier, "Prelude to Colonialism: Moroccan Muslims and Jews through Western Lenses, 1860-1912," European Judaism, Vol. 52, No. 2 (Autumn 2019): 111- 128. A+

V. Non-Refereed Articles:

163. Michael M. Laskier, “Manuscript Catalog of the Alliance Israélite Universelle: Review Article of the Catalog and the Scholarly Materials Available at the Alliance Library in Paris,” The Alliance Review, Vol. 29, No. 49 (Fall 1980): 34-35. The American Friends of the AIU, New York

164. Michael M. Laskier, “Educational Developments in Israel: The Emergence of the

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Kerem Institute for Humanistic Education,” The Alliance Review, New York, 29, No.3 (1980): 20-25. Published by American Friends of the Alliance Israélite Universelle

165. Michael M. Laskier and Dina Porat, “Our Hearts Go Out for Our Polish Co-religionists: Libyan Jewry Enlist on Behalf of European Jewry during World War II,” Et-Mol: A Journal on the History of Eretz-Yisrael and Am Yisrael, Vol. 7, No.4 (42), Nissan 1982: 14-15. Published by the Diaspora Research Institute, Tel-Aviv University. [Hebrew]

166. Michael M. Laskier, “The Evolution of Zionism in North Africa,” Skira Hodsheet, No. 9 (August 1982): 9-32. Israeli Defense Ministry Publications [Hebrew]

167. Michael M. Laskier, “La evolucion de la actividad sionista en las comunidades de Marruecos: 1897-1947,” Rumbos, Numero 12 (Enero-Marzo 1985): 71-82. Published by the Information Department of the World Zionist Organization

168. Michael M. Laskier, “La evolucion de la actividad sionista en las comunidades de Tunez: 1897-1947,” Rumbos, Numero 15 (Marzo 1986): 179-195

169. Michael M. Laskier, “La evolucion de la actividad sionista en las comunidades de Argelia: 1897-1947,” Rumbos, Numero 17 (Marzo 1987): 182-194

170. Michael M. Laskier, “Moroccan Jewry under King Muhammad V,” Skira Hodsheet, No. 9 (November 1986): 34-45. Israeli Defense Ministry Publications [Hebrew]

171. Michael M. Laskier, “Israel and the Palestinians: Background and Outlook on Eve of Madrid Peace Conference,” Secular Humanistic Judaism, No. 3 (November 1991): 52-54. Published by International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism

172. Michael M. Laskier, “The Israel-Maghrib Connection: Past Contacts, Future Prospects,” Jerusalem Letter, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (April 1997): 6pp.

173. Michael M. Laskier, “Vichy Anti-Semitism in the Maghreb,” Be-Shvil ha-Zikaron, 25 (November 1997): 4-11. Yad va-Shem Publications [Hebrew]

174. Michael M. Laskier, "The First International Conference 'Bridging the Worlds of Judaism & Islam' at Bar-Ilan University (2-4 January 2006): A Report," Ru'ah Mizrahit 4 (Summer 2006): 52-56 (Internet Journal of the Israeli Oriental Society)

175. Michael M. Laskier, "Israel as an Active Spectator in the Arab Cold War of the 1950s and 1960s: Egypt and Tunisia through Israeli Lenses," (September 2011) www.archives.gov.il/NR/rdonlyres/37D270AF-4B9A-4E9D-AF5E-561D2570F595/0/MichaelLaskierlecture/pdf,

176. Michael M. Laskier, "The Struggle for the Nation: Israel in the Age of Inter- Cultural Conflicts and Islamist Terrorism," Ha-Humma (The Nation), 52nd Year, Number 196 (Winter 2014): 7-18 (Part I) [in Hebrew]

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177. Michael M. Laskier, "The Struggle for the Nation: Israel in the Age of Intercultural Conflicts, Islamic Terrorism and Rise in Anti-Semitism," Ha-Umma (The Nation), 53rd Year, Number 197 (Spring 2015): 7-23 (Part II) [in Hebrew]

VI. Book Reviews

178. Michael M. Laskier, “The Jewish Community of Sefrou: Review of Rabbi David Ovadia’s Three Volume Work,” Pe’amim: Studies in the Cultural Heritage of Oriental Jewry, 14 (Spring 1982): 132-137. Ben-Zvi Institute [Hebrew] A

179. Michael M. Laskier, “Immigrants from the Atlas Mountains in an Israeli Village” – Review of Book by Moshe Shokeid, Journal of Israeli History 8 (Spring 1987): 138-142 A

180. Michael M. Laskier, “The Jews of Egypt: A Mediterranean Society in Modern Times” Review of Book by Shimon Shamir, Journal of Israeli History, 9 (Spring 1988): 119-124 A

181. Michael M. Laskier, “The Making of Contemporary Algeria, 1830-1987” - Review of Mahfoud Bennoune's Book, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, December1989: 225-227. Published by the Middle East Studies Association A

182. Michael M. Laskier, “De l’instruction à l’emancipation: Les enseignants de l’alliance israélite universelle et les juifs d’orient, 1860-1939” – Review of Aron Rodrigue’s Book, Middle Eastern Studies, 27,3 (1991): 183-185 A

183. Michael M. Laskier, “Urban Society and Imperialism in Southwestern Morocco during the Nineteenth Century”: Review Essay of Daniel J. Schroeter's Book on Essaouira, Middle Eastern Studies, Vol.27, 1991: 182-188. Frank Cass A

184. Michael M. Laskier, “Zionism and Technocracy,” Review of Derek Penslar’s Book, Association of Israel Studies Bulletin (1992): 27-29. University of Pennsylvania B

185. Michael M. Laskier, “Jews and Muslims in Libya” - Review of Harvey E. Goldberg's Book, Mediterranean Historical Review, 7,1 (1992): 112-114 A

186. Michael M. Laskier, “The Other Jews – The Sephardim Today” – Review of Book by Daniel J. Elazar in Studies in Contemporary Jewry IX (1992): 320-324. Oxford University Press & Institute for Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, A+

187. Michael M. Laskier, “Change Within Tradition among Jewish Women in Libya” – Review of Rachel Simon's Book Religious Studies Review, 19. 4 (October 1993): 367. Published by Mercer University B

188. Michael M. Laskier, “The Evolution of Ethiopian Jewry: A History of Beta Israel (Falasha),” Review of Book by James Quirin, American Historical Review, Vol.99, No.1 (February 1994): 278-279 A+ (One of the five leading history journals in the

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world)

189. Michael M. Laskier, “Land and Power – The Zionist Resort to Force, 1882-1948” – Review of Book by Anita Shapira in Shofar, 12,3 (1994): 155-157 B+

190. Michael M. Laskier, “Organizing Rescue: Jewish National Solidarity in the Modern Period” – Review of Book by Ilan Troen & Benjamin Pinkus in Studies in Contemporary Jewry XI (1994): 348-35, A+

191. Michael M. Laskier, “Une vieux judeo-espangnole à l'est: Gabriel Arié” – Review of Book by Esther Benbassa and Aron Rodrigue, Tsiyon (1995): 210-212 A+

192. Michael M. Laskier, “From Philanthropy to Activism: The Political Transformation of American Zionism in the Holocaust Years” – Review of Book by David H. Shpiro in American Jewish History 83,4 (December 1995): 512-515 A+

193. Michael M. Laskier, “In the Shadow of History: Jews & Conversos at the Dawn of Modernity” – Review of Jose Faur in Shofar 14,2 (Winter 1996): 167-170 B+

194. Michael M. Laskier, “Out of Egypt” - Review of Book by André Aciman, Shofar, 15,2 (Summer 1997): 121-123 B+

195. Michael M. Laskier, “Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries: History and Culture in the Modern Era” – Review of Book edited by Harvey E. Goldberg in: Studies in Contemporary Jewry. New York & London: Oxford University Press, 1999: 222-225, A+

196. Michael M. Laskier, “The Decline of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Middle East Politics and the Quest for Regional Order” – Review of Avraham Sela’s Book, American Historical Review (June 2000): 1050-1051 A+ (One of the five leading history journals in the world).

197. Michael M. Laskier, “Saint Veneration among the Jews of Morocco” - Review of Book by Issachar Ben-Ami, Association for Jewish Studies Review, 25,1 (2000- 2001): 133-137. Cambridge University Press A+

198. Michael M. Laskier, “The Anglican Mission and the Jews of Morocco in the 19th Century” – Review of Book by Eliezer Bashan, Association for Jewish Studies Review, 26,1 (April 2002): 165-167. Cambridge University Press A+

199. Michael M. Laskier, “Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry”: Review Essay of Book by Joel Beinin, Association for Jewish Studies Review, 26,2 (Nov 2002): 391-393. Cambridge University Press A+

200. Almoravids to the Algerian War” - Review of Book edited by Julia Clancy-Smith, Mediterranean Historical Review, 19, 1 (June 2004): 120-124. London: Taylor & Francis Group, A

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201. Michael M. Laskier, “Morocco: From Empire to Independence” – Review of Book by C.R. Pennell, Mediterranean Historical Review 20, 1 (June 2005): 140-142 A

202. Michael M. Laskier, “Morocco since 1830: A History” – Review of Book by C. R. Pennell, Ha-Mizrah he-Hadash, 60 (May 2009) [Hebrew]: 142-144 A (Jerusalem: The Magnes Press).

203. Michael M. Laskier, Book Review Essay: "My Enemy, My Mentor: Arab Islamist and Liberal Discourses on the Zionist Movement and Israel" – Review of Book by Uriya Shavit and Ofir Winter, Mida Web – http://mida.org.il (July 2014) [Hebrew]: 6 pages

204. Michael M. Laskier, "Review of North Africa and the Making of Europe: Governance, Institutions and Culture, edited by Muriam Haleh Davis & Thomas Serres, American Historical Review [in press, due December 2019] A+ (One of the five leading history journals in the world).

Papers Presented at Scientific Conferences, Symposia & Workshops

1. 1978: First International Congress on Sephardi-Oriental Jewry, Jerusalem. Paper: “The AIU and the Struggle for Recognition within the Communities of Morocco,” published in the Sephardic and Oriental Heritage, Magnes Press, 1982

2. 1980: “Rural Jewish Communities of the Maghreb,” Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Paper: "Aspects of Change, The Jews of Morocco's Hinterland,” published in Communautes Juives des Marges sahariennes du Maghreb, Ben-Zvi, 1982

3. 1981: 8th Annual Conference of Israel's Oriental Society, Bar-Ilan University, 28 April 1981. Paper delivered: “Muslims and Jews in Morocco: Contrasts and Similarities in the Influence of European Education,” published in Teuda Dalet IV: Studies in Judaica, Tel-Aviv University, 1986

4. 1981: International Conference, “One Hundred Years of Jewish Settlement in Palestine,” Tel-Aviv University. Paper: “Evolution of Zionism in the Maghreb,” published, Studies in Zionism (1983)

5. 1982: Maghribi & European Jewry, Universite Aix-en-Provence. “Anglo-French Jewry and Maghrebi Jewry, 1862-1880,” in Les relations intercommunautaires juives, CNRS, 1984

6. 1983: Mediterranean Jewry during the Holocaust: mini-conference which I organized at Kibbutz Lohame ha-Gheta'ot. My paper: “The Italo-German Occupation in Tunisia, November 1942-May 1943.” Set stage for my book: North African Jewry in the Shadow of Vichy and the Swastika, Tel-Aviv University, 1992

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7. 1983: Teaching Sephardi Heritage at Israeli and American Universities, Ben-Zvi Institute, Jerusalem. Paper: “Strategies of Teaching Complexities of Muslim-Jewish Relations”

8. 1984: 2nd International Conference for Study of Sephardi and Oriental Jewry, Jerusalem. Paper: “The Alliance Israelite Universelle and the Social Conditions of Mediterranean Basin Jewry, 1860-1914,” published in L'Alliance dans les communautes du bassin mediterraneen, Misgav Yerushalayim, 1987

9. 1985: The 9th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Paper delivered: “The Jewish Agency for Palestine and the Jewish Communities of Tunisia and Morocco,” published in Proceedings of the Ninth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Magnes Press, 1986

10. 1986: Alliance Israelite Universelle and the Jewish Communities of Palestine: Conference sponsored by the Alliance Israelite Universelle and the Ben-Zvi Institute. Paper: “The Alliance and Zionism”

11. 1987: “Juifs de France, le mouvement sioniste et l'état d'Israel.” Conference at Univ. de Paris & Ben-Gurion Univ. Paper: “L'intervention des juifs de France dans l'aliyah d'afrique du nord, 1948-55,” published in Yahadut Tsarfat, Ha-Tsionut u-Medinat Yisrael, Ben-Gurion Univ., 1992

12. 1987: Immigration from Muslim Countries to Israel: 1948-64. Yad-Tabenkin. Paper: “Jewish Immigration from Morocco to Israel: Government Policies & International Jewish Organizations,” published in Shorashim ba-Mizrah II & III, Yad Tabenkin, 1989 & 1991

13. 1988: Palestine during World War I, Yad Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem. Paper: “Albert Antebi and Palestine's Jews, 1908-1916,” published in Shofar (Summer 1992), Purdue University Press.

14. 1988: Association for Jewish Studies 20th Annual Conference, Boston. Paper: “The Jews of France and North African Jewry during the Inter-war Years,” published in Studies in the Culture of North African Jewry, Jerusalem, 1991

15. 1989: Association for Jewish Studies 21st Annual Conference, Boston. Paper: “French Jewry, the Joint and the State of Israel, The Rescue of Jewish Refugees in France, 1948-1968”

16. 1989: American Historical Association, 104th Annual Meeting, San Francisco. Panel I organized on Mediterranean Basin Jewry and the Jews of France. Paper: “The Jews of France and the Influx of Maghribi Jewish Immigrants”

17. 1990: The 17th International Congress of Historical Sciences (CISH), Madrid, 26 August - 2 September 1990. Paper: “Modern Anti-Semitism and Muslim/Jewish Relations in the Arabic-Speaking World since the 1930s.” Invited; unable to attend

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18. 1990: “The Geography of the Jewish People,” sponsored by Ohio State University. Paper: “Changing Geography of French Jewry, 1955-1965.” Data from research on my book on French Jewry since World War II; published in an extended feature as an article in Jewish Political Studies Review

19. 1990: Midwest Association for Jewish Studies. Chaired a panel: “Teaching Jewish History at Midwestern Universities.” held at Spertus College of Judaica

20. 1990: Association for Jewish Studies, 22nd Annual Conference, Boston. Paper: “Israeli-Directed Underground Movements in the Arab World, 1948-61”

21. 1991: Second International Conference on Sephardi Studies, SUNY Binghamton. Paper: “Role of Sephardim in the Yishuv's Colonization”

22. 1991: Association for Jewish Studies 23rd Annual Conference, Boston. Panel that I organized. Paper delivered: “Sephardim and Zionist Currents”

23. 1992: 7th Annual Middle Eastern Workshop, CMES University of Chicago. Paper: “Finding Authenticity in Islam & Contemporary Politics: Resurgence of Islamic Fundamentalism in Algeria, 1990-92,” published as a chapter in Great Events from History II: Human Rights, Salem Press, 1992

24. 1992: American Historical Association, 107th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. Paper: “The Sephardim and their Communal Organizations in the New World”

25. 1993: Bridging the Worlds of Islam and Judaism. International Conference Honoring Professor William M. Brinner. Paper: “Viewing the 'Other': Jews of Arab Lands in Modern Arabic Political and Journalistic Literature.” Held at the University of California, Berkeley. Published in a Festschrift volume by E.J. Brill.

26. 1993: “Diversity in the Los Angeles Jewish Community,” organized by One People, Many Voices Coalition, at Stephen S. Wise Temple. My Lecture: “The Jews of Muslim Lands in the Context of the Arab-Israeli Conflict Since 1948”

27. 1993:Association for Jewish Studies 25th Meeting, Boston. Chair, “Zionist Historiography”

28. 1993: Sephardi Jewry, Crisis/Assimilation: Conference at University of Northern Iowa. Paper: “The Sephardic Educational Center & the Crisis of Jewish Identity in Contemporary America,” to be published in Jews of Sepharad, McFarland Publishers

29. 1994: “Israel in the Nineties.” Conference I organized at the University of Judaism, March 8, 1994. Speakers: Yo'av Ben-Horin on Zionism in the Diaspora; Michael M. Laskier, on Islamic Fundamentalism, the PLO, Israel and Moderate Arab Regimes; Sergio Della Pergola on Israeli Demographic Changes; Miryam Glazer on Israeli Literature; and Steven Windmueller, on American Jewry/Israel Relations in the Age of the Peace Process

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30. 1995: “Muslim-Jewish Ties Since World War II,” Conference at Haifa University. Paper: “Mehdi Ben-Barka's Moroccan-Jewish/Israeli Connection: 1955-1965.” To be published in Miqqedem u-Miyyam VII, University of Haifa Press, 2001

31. 1996: “The Place of Europe in the National Identity of Mediterranean Basin Jewry Living in Israel.” Paper at a conference on "National Identity" sponsored by Beit Berl College and the University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany, 11-16 February 1996.

32. 1996: “The Perplexing Cultural and National Identity of the Jews of Muslim Lands in the Pre-Communal Self-Liquidation Period.” Paper at a joint conference of Beit Berl College and the University of Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg, Germany, 17-23 February 1996.

33. 1996: “Teaching the Holocaust”: Conference of Israeli/German educators (the Hilf Network), at Beit Berl College. Paper: “Beit Berl/Wiesbaden Fachhochschule Student Exchange Program”

34. 1996: “Jewish Education in Tunisia: 1948-1973 - Preparation For Immigration or Communal Preservation?” Paper at conference at Yad Tabenkin Institute in Honor of Yitzhak Avrahami, June 4, 1996.

35. 1996: “Beit Berl College/Wiesbaden Fachhochschule Student Exchange Program: Achievements and Shortcomings.” Conference I organized at Beit Berl with participants from Israel and Germany, 8-11 September 1996. Paper: “The Experience of the Israeli Students at the Fachhochschule”

36. 1996: “The Model and Functional Role of Jewish Organizations in the Jewish Community of Tomorrow,” organized by the Jerusalem Center of Public Affairs, 25 September 1996. My contribution: discussion on the French community model

37. 1997: “Eretz-Yisrael/State of Israel in the Consciousness of Sephardi Jewry,” Conference, 20-25 July 1997, Misgav Yerushalayim. Paper: “Eretz-Yisrael and the State of Israel in the Consciousness of the Egyptian-Jewish Elite in the Twentieth Century,” to be published in a volume on Israel in the Consciousness of Sephardi Jewry, Misgav Yerushalayim Press of the Hebrew University

38. 1997: “Israeli Envoys in Arab Lands: Their Vision & Understanding of Local Judeo- Muslim Culture.” Paper at conference on 'Zionism and Identity', Ben-Zvi Institute, Jerusalem. To form part of my forthcoming book on Israel and the Aliya from North Africa.

39. 1997: “The Zionist Leadership in France and its Relations with the State of Israel: 1948-1973.” Delivered at 12th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, 29 July - 5 August 1997. To be included in a book I am writing on French Jewry: 1945-2000.

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40. 1997: “North African Jews and the Promised Land: Problems of Identity and Culture in Israeli Society,” delivered at conference on Identity-Nationality-Education, organized by Beit Berl College in conjunction with Ludwigsburg College in Germany, 9-14 March 1997

41. 1997: “The Arabic and French Jewish Press in Egypt of the Inter-war Period: 1919- 1939,” delivered at conference on “Jews of Egypt in Modern Times,” Cairo, 1-3 June 1997. Organized by the Israeli Academic Center in Cairo. Published by the Bulletin of the Israeli Academic Center in Cairo, June 1998

42. 1997: “The Aliyat ha-No'ar (Youth Aliya) from Morocco to Israel,” Conference organized by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in conjunction with the Robert Assaraf Endowed Chair for Moroccan History, 12 November 1997. My paper: “Aliyat ha-No'ar Caught in the Political Entanglement of Secular and Religious Moroccan Communal Struggles: 1949-1956.” Formed part of my book on Israel and the Aliya Fron North Africa.

43. 1998: “Uniqueness of the Mossad's 'Misgeret' in Algeria of the 1950s vis-à-vis the Mossad's Work in Morocco and Tunisia,” paper delivered at conference “The State of Israel and the Jews of Algeria: 1945-1962,” Eliachar Center of Sephardi Jewry, Ben-Gurion University. Published in a revised version in Pe’amim, 75 (Spring 1988)

44. 1998: International Conference, Columbia University: “The Jews of the Middle East-North Africa in Modern Times.” 23-25 February 1998. Michael Laskier, Reeva Simon, Sara Reguer, organizers. The outcome was the book by Columbia University Press, The Jews of the Middle East & North Africa in Modern Times

45. 1998: “Communal Dispersion and New Identities: Emigration of Jews from Muslim Countries to Israel, Europe and the Americas,” Conference at Haifa University, 15- 16 June. Paper delivered: “Aliya and Absorption in Israel Reflected in Palestinian and Other Arab-Language Press.”

46.1999: “Jewish Communal Leadership Crises in Morocco during Decolonization in the First Decade of Independence: 1956-67,” in “Creativity and Leadership in North African and Spanish Jewry,” an international conference at Bar-Ilan University, 29-30. December 1999. To be published in a special volume by Bar-Ilan University Press entitled: Creativity, Openness, and Leadership in the Maghreb and Sepharad

47. 2000: “The Remnants of the Egyptian Jewish Communities under Sadat and Mubarak, 1970-2000,” International Conference entitled “Identity and Memory: Achievements and Goals In the Research of the Jewish Communities in the East on the Verge of the 21st Century, 22-25 May 2000, sponsored by Ben-Zvi Institute and Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University.

48. 2000: “Israeli-Tunisian Relations in the Past Fifty Years,” International Conference Sponsored by the Dahan Center, Bar-Ilan University & Open University of Israel – 17-18 May 2000. Paper: “Israel between Bourguibism Nasserism, 1956-1967”

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49. 2001: “Periphery and Center in Sephardi Heritage,” International Conference, Haifa University, January 2001. Paper: “Comparative French Educational Influence in Morocco’s Jewish Communities at the Periphery and Center”

50. 2001: “Libyan Jews: Identity, Heritage, History, 21-22 March 2001: “Libyan & Tunisian Jews under Nazism.” International Conference, Bar-Ilan University.

51. 2001: “Periphery and Core in Israel,” National Conference at Ashqelon Academic College, organized by me on 23 May 2001.

52. 2002: “Morocco during World War II,” 20-21 March 2002, Conference at Ben-Gurion University: The “Holocaust & Maghrebi and Balkan Jewries.”

53. 2002: “Egyptian Nasserism and Maghrebi Nationalism,” 4 June 2002, National Conference at Bar-Ilan University: “Egypt & the Mediterranean World”

54. 2002: “The Jews in Egypt from Rommel's Invasion to the November 1945 Riots,” Workshop at Haifa University on “The Impact of World War II and the Holocaust on the Middle East,” 7 November 2002. 55. 2002: “The Plight of European-Jewish Refugees in Morocco during the Second World War Based on the Archives of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee,” Symposium in Honor of Professor Eliezer Bashan, Bar-Ilan University, 20 November 2002.

56. 2003: “Middle East Terrorism”: Conference at Bar-Ilan University, 31 March 2003 coordinated and organized by me.

57. 2003: “Islam and the World”: Annual Conference of the Israel Oriental Society at Ben-Gurion University - my topic, “Al-Adl wa'l Ihsan and Al-Adala wa'l Tanmia Islamist Movements in Morocco in the Final Years of Hasan II's Monarchy and under Muhammad VI” - 27 May 2003.

58. 2003: “Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba and the Tunisian Jewish Communities, 1956-1967,”" an international conference at Bar-Ilan University entitled “Creativity, Heritage and Culture,” 10-11 June 2003.

59. 2003: “The Egyptian Revolution and the Jewish Communities of Egypt,” Conference at the Open University of Israel, Tel-Aviv, 5 November 2003. Paper Delivered, “The Expulsion of Egyptian Jewry in 1956-1957– A Historical Perspective.”

60. 2003: The 35th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies at Boston, 21-25 December 2003. Panel entitled “The Americanization of Israeli Culture,” an interdisciplinary panel (papers on Arabic and Hebrew literature, Sociology and Contemporary History organized and chaired by me.

61. 2004: International Conference, “The Jews of Egypt,” organized at Bar-Ilan University, January 3-5, 2004. My paper: “Jewish Communal Rivalries in Egypt in the Final Years of the Ancien Régime and during the Nasser Era, 1948-1970.”

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62. 2004: Symposium in the Ladino Program at Bar-Ilan University, 28 April, 2004. My Paper: “The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times: Discussing My book in partnership with Reeva S. Simon and Sara Reguer,” published by Columbia University Press

63. 2004: International Conference, “Fez et autres villes au Maroc: Mille ans d’activité intellectuelle,” organized by the Dahan Institute of Sephardi Culture, 18-19 May, 2004. Chair: Panel on “Moroccan History since the Expulsion from Spain”

64. 2004: Symposium Inaugurating the New Department of Middle Eastern History at Bar-Ilan University, 31 May 2004. My Paper: “Radical Islamist Movements in Morocco and Algeria and their Outlook on the State of Israel.”

65. 2004: Annual International Conference of the Association of Israel Studies (AIS), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 14-16 June 2004. Paper: “Israel, France and Algeria at the Height of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1956-1970.” Unable to attend the meeting. My paper was read to the audience by the panel Chair

66. 2004: Conference “Forced to be Free: Democratization in the Middle East.” My Paper: “Attitudes in the Maghreb toward the American Policies in Iraq.” Organized and sponsored by the BESA Center at Bar-Ilan University, 21 June 2004

67. 2004: National Conference on “Egypt in the 1950s: The July 1954 Mishap,” My Paper: “The Background to the ‘Mishap’ and the Makings of the Israeli-Sponsored Sabotage-Espionage Underground. Haifa University, 3-4 November 2004

68. 2004: Symposium on “Urban Centers in the Mediterranean World and Muslim-Jewish Coexistence.” My paper: “Jewish-Muslim-Coptic Coexistence in Cairo & Alexandria Throughout the 20th Century.” Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, 8 December 2004

69. 2005: National Conference on “The Jewish Community of Constantine (Algeria),” at the Renaissance Hotel, Jerusalem, 28 March 2005. My Paper: “Constantine Jewry during the Vichy Era.”

70. 2005: Symposium on “Leading Figures in Jewish History,” organized by the Department of Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University. My Lecture: “Avraham Albert Antébi in Palestine.” 30 March 2005

71. 2005: National Conference on “Democratization and Radical Islamism in the Arab World,” organized by the Academic College on the Sea of Galilee, 5 April 2005. My Paper: “Islamic Radicalism, Globalization, and Democratization in the Maghreb: The Beginning of the Third Millennium.”

72. 2005: The 14th World Congress of Jewish Studies. Paper: "Youth Aliyah in Morocco: From Free Emigration to Clandestine Channels." An Opening Panel including the Israeli Author Elie Amir, former Isrel Supreme Court Judge Dalia Dorner, and Professor Dvora

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HaCohen, Jerusalem, 31 July 2005

73. 2006: Organized together with Professor Yaacov Lev, the Dahan Center, and the Jewish Studies Program at San Francisco State University, an international Conference entitled: “Bridging the Worlds of Judaism & Islam, Bar-Ilan University, 2-4 January 2006.

74. 2006: Conference on The Jews of Lebanon: Identity and Heritage. My paper: Lebanese and Syrian Jewry between Civil Wars. Bar-Ilan University, 16 March 2006

75. 2006: National Conference "The Islamic World – Past and Present," sponsored by the Israel Oriental Society, at Bar-Ilan University. Chair:"The Portrayal of the Jews in Arabic Literature, 8 May 2006

76. 2006: International Conference "Radical Islam: Challenge and Response," sponsored by at the BESA Center, Bar-Ilan University, 24-25 May 2006. My Paper: "The Long Arms of Maghrebi Islamist Radicalism in Western Europe"

77. 2006: International Conference on the Jews of France: Past, Present and Future, at the Dahan Center, Bar-Ilan University, 24-25 May 2006. My paper which is based in small part on my book manuscript in progress (French Jewry, 1944-2006: A Portrait of a Western European Community is entitled "Coexistence or Rupture: Muslims and Jews in Contemporary France"

78. 2006: International Conference on the Jews of France: Past, Present and Future, at the Dahan Center, Bar-Ilan University. Chair of Panel: "Oral History of French Jewry until the End of World War II," 25 May 2006.

79. 2006: Conference in Honor of Dr. Shimon Shtober upon his Retirement from the Department of Middle Eastern History, Bar-Ilan University, 21 June 2006. Chair of Panel "The Modern Middle East"

80. International Conference on Egyptian Jewry, organized by the Technion in Haifa, 2-4 July 2006. My Paper: "Between the Hammer and the Anvil: The Jews of Egypt and the June 1967 Arab-Israeli War"

81. International Conference at the Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem "Charity and Piety in the Middle East in late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Continuity & Transformation, 11-12 February 2007. Chair: "Charity in Jewish Society"

82. International Conference at the Dahan Center on "Syrian Jewry: History, Identity and Heritage," 28-29 May 2007, Bar-Ilan University. Chair of Session: "The Jews in the Political Labyrinth"

83. National Conference on "Libyan Jewry: 40 Years after the Demise of the Community Following the June 1967 Arab-Israeli War." 7 June 2007. My Keynote Speech – "Libyan Jewry in the Decade that Preceded the 1967 War and in the Course of It."

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84. Israel Studies Association's Annual meeting at the Open University of Israel, 11-13 June 2007. My Paper: "The Making of Israeli-Moroccan Relations, 1959-1963"

85. Co-Organizer of an International Workshop on Malaysian Politics and Human Rights Issues under co-sponsorship of the Menachem Begin Center for the Study of Resistance & Underground Movements

86. "Civilizations in Conflict: Can the Barriers and Gaps be Removed?" International Workshop organized jointly by the Program for Conflict Resolution at Bar-Ilan University, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, the Endowed Chair named in honor of Dr. Yosef Burg, and the UNESCO Chair for Human Rights & Democracy. I served as a respondent in the panel on the effectiveness of inter-religious dialogue between academics and activists

87. International Conference at the University of Maryland, 26-29 August 2007 entitled "Jews and Muslims in the Islamic and Western Worlds." I served as the Chairperson and organizer of the conference. Co-organized by the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Dahan Center (Bar-Ilan University), and the Meyerhof Center for Jewish Studies, University of Maryland. I gave the keynote speech: "Jewish-Muslim Ties from the Middle Ages to Modernity"

88. Co-Organizer of a National Conference organized by the Menachem Begin Institute for the Study of Resistance Movements and BESA, Bar-Ilan University, 29 October 2007: "Violence in the World of Islam." My paper, entitled: Salafi-Jihadi Networks in the Maghreb & the European Union in the Dawn of the 3rd Millennium"

89. Organizer of "One Hundred Years Later: The Image of Avraham Stern ['Yair'] Leader of the 'Stern Gang'", The Menachem Begin Institute for the Study of Resistance & Underground Movements, Bar-Ilan University, 10 March 2008. Among the guest speakers was Benyamin Netanyahu, then leader of the Government's opposition and the currently Israeli prime minister

90. "On Wings of Eagles": The 60th Anniversary of the Aliyah of Yememi Jewry to Israel. My Paper: Israel's Policy vis-à-vis the Mass Immigration in the late 1940s and 1950s." Bar-Ilan University, March 2008

91. The Jews of Islam during World War II: International Conference in Light of New Research Findings," The Ben-Zvi Institute, Jerusalem, April 2008. My paper: "Out of the Trauma of Vichy and the Italian-German Menace: North African Jewry and the World Jewish Congress Emergency Conference in Atlantic City, November 1944

92. "Global Tolerance and Intolerance in Medieval & Modern Times," International Conference at Bar-Ilan University, 13-15 May 2008. My paper: "Who is Intolerant?: Western Europe and its Muslim Communities in the Past Two Decades"

93. "The Discreet Alexander Lewey Easterman: A Portrait of a Diplomat in Service of Jewry, 1930s through the 1960s," Forum of Jewish Leaders," under the Auspices of the Jewish History Department - Bar-Ilan University, 17 December 2008

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94. "Nasserism and Bourguibism between the United States and the Soviet Union at the Height of the Arab Cold War," paper delivered at the Symposium Honoring Dr. Shlomit Shriebom-Shivtiel on the occasion of her Retirement from the Arabic Department at Bar-Ilan University, 15 June 2009

95. "Zionism Put to the Test of Time: Ideology, Vision and Reality," national conference sponsored by the Jewish History Department at Bar-Ilan University. I chaired first session entitled: "Jewish Nationalism between Tradition and Renewal," 16 June 2009

96. "The European Union and the Maghreb: Civil Society, Democratization and Economic Development," paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA), Washington, DC, 22-24 October 2009

97. "Jewish-Muslim Relations and Jewish Communal Leadership in Arab Lands during World War II: A Reassessment," in a Workshop Organized by the Holocaust Museum of Washington, DC and the Ben-Zvi Institute's new Documentation Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, 8 February 2010

98. Two Distinct Approaches to Resolving the Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Outlooks of Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba and Morocco's King Hasan II," conference on Peace Processes in the Middle East at the Academic College of the Western Galilee, 15 March 2010

99. "French-Jewish Culture and Maghrebi Jewry, 1830-1914," paper delivered at the Conference "Traditions, Religion, and Ethics: The Encounter between France and North Africa, Paris, Sorbonne, 27-30 June 2010 [ lecture delivered in French]

100. "Jewish-Muslim Relations in Post-Independent Libya under the Sanussi Monarchy and Qadhafi's Jamahiriyya Republic." Keynote Speaker at a National Conference on "Libyan Jewry since the Establishment of the State of Israel," The Dahan Center, Bar-Ilan University, October 12-13, 2010

101. The Middle East and the Maghreb: A New Direction? Revolts and Revolutions in the Arab States in the Aftermath of the Winter 2011 Popular Tunisian and Egyptian Protests." Symposium Moderated by Me, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Bar-Ilan University, February 21, 2011

102. The 14th International Conference on "Jewish Society throughout the Ages. Served as Chair of Panel on origins of Jewish names. Bar-Ilan University, March 22, 2011

103. The Collective memory of Egyptian Jewry: A Study of a Community that Vanished. Paper delivered: "Was the gradual Self-Liquidation of Egypt's Jews Merely a Result of the Arab-Israeli Conflict?" Organized by the Dahan Center at Bar-Ilan University, April 4, 2011

104. "The Diplomats of the Sasson Family: Eliyahu & Moshe Sasson Father and Son: An Untold Chapter in Israeli Diplomacy," The Lecture Series of the Department

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of Jewish History, Bar-Ilan University entitled "Profiles of Leading Figures in Jewish History, May 11, 2011

105. The 35th Annual meeting of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Association of Israel (MEISAI): Special Session to Confirm my election and nomination as the next President of the Association. Held at the Open University of Israel, May 25, 2011

106. "Islamist Political Parties in the Maghreb and Egypt: Their Strategies toward Democratization and Existing Regimes," in Islamist Movements in the Middle East: International Conference sponsored by the Fridreich Ebert Fund and the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Strategic Dialogue of the Netanyia Academic College, Te Aviv, Beit Sokolov, May 30, 2011

107. "Jews and Muslims through the Lenses of Europeans and the Teachers of the Alliance Israélite Universelle in the Decade Preceding the Inauguration of the Colonial Era, 1890-1912." Paper delivered at the University College in London (UCL) at the International conference entitled "One Hundred years to the Inauguration of the French Protectorate in Morocco, June 20-22, 2011

108. "Israeli-Italian Relations as a Reflection of Middle Eastern-Mediterranean Regional Realities: A Historical Perspective." My paper for the international conference in Bologna, September 5-9, 2011, Università Degli Studi Di Bologna entitled: "The Jews of Italy: Cultural, Economic and Political Factors."

109. "Intertwined Worlds: The Judeo-Islamic Tradition." International Conference co- organized by the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and the Woolf Institute Centers, University of Cambridge. A paper on Jewish-Muslim Relations through Social Interaction; and Participation in a roundtable discussion of Judeo-Muslim components.

110. The 11th International Conference of Editors of Diplomatic Documents, Jerusalem, 19-22 September 2011. My Paper: "Documenting the Conflict between Egyptian Nasserism and Tunisian Bourguibism: Materials Released from the Israel State Archives (ISA) and the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)," 21 September 2011

111. The Judeo-Muslim Experience: A Series of lectures Initiated by the Yad Ben-Zvi Institute in Jerusalem. Your Two Presentations: "Judeo-Muslim Relations in the Middle Ages" and "Judeo-Muslim Destinies in the Arab World, Central Asia, the European Union and Australia were delivered on 23 November 2011

112. 50 Years to 'Operation Yakhin': Conference organized by the Menachem Begin Center for the Study of Resistance Movements & the Dahan Center for the Study of the Sephardic Heritage, Bar-Ilan University, November 28, 2011

113. Egypt and Israel between Two Social Protests: A Lecture Presentation at an Art Exhibition at the Bar-Ilan University Central Library, January 24, 2012

114. The Arab Spring: A Multidimensional and Integrative Approach. A national

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Conference at Bar-Ilan University's Department of Middle Eastern Studies. You Introduced the Keynote Speaker, Media Personality Ehud Ya'ari with a 12-Minute Presentation and Gave a Lecture entitled "Tunisia and Morocco during the Arab Spring: A Comparative Analysis of Domestic, Regional, and International Implications," Bar-Ilan University, January 30, 2012

115. The First Anniversary to the 'Arab Spring': Conclusions, Orientations, Assessments. A National Conference at the Western Galilee Academic College. Your Presentation: "The 'Jasmine Revolution' in Tunisia," Acre, February 1, 2012

116. On Organizing Committee of international Conference on "Lebanon's Jewish Communities in Medieval and Modern periods. Also served as chair of one of the panels. Bar-Ilan University, May 15, 2012

117. Encountering the Jewish-Muslim Relationship throughout the Times: Arab-Jewish Dialogue. Lecture: "Convergence and Divergence in Judeo-Muslims Relations." Acre, May 30, 2012

118. Lecture: "Zionist Trends in the Egyptian Jewish Community." Presented at the Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish Studies, May 31, 2012

119. Chief Organizer/Architect of the 36th Annual Conference Sponsored by the Middle East and Islamic Studies Association of Israel abd the Menachem Begin Center for the Study of Resistance Movements, held at Bar-Ilan University, June 7, 2012. I also Convened and Closed the conference as president of the Association

120. National Conference for Professional Librarians of the Arabic Language and Middle Eastern Studies. Jerusalem, the National Library of Israel, October 10, 2012. Your keynote address: "New Developments and Orientations In Middle Eastern Studies of the Modern Period

121. Co-Organized an International Conference via the Menachem Begin Center for the Study of Resistance Movements and the Dahan Center: "Fifty Years to Algeria's Independence." December 17, 2012, at Bar-Ilan University

122. Organized a conference on the occasion of two books published by the Menachem Begin Center for the Study of Resistance Movements: Military Resistance in Late Mandatory Palestine and Security and Political Challenges Put to the Test: Israel in the Arab World and International Arena – both published by Bar-Ilan University Press, at Bar-Ilan University, January 14, 2013

123. "The Second Exodus" Conference launched by the Dahan Center on Aliya and Immigration of Jews from Arab States. Paper: "The Aliya from Morocco to Israel and Immigration to Europe and the Americas," Bar-Ilan University, March 11, 2013

124. "Dialogue between Scholars and Media Representatives on the Role and Potential Contribution of Academics in the Israeli Electronic Media in the Age of Revolutions in

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the Arab World." The Moshe Dayan Research Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Tel Aviv University, April 9, 2013

125. I was among the Chief Assistants in Organizing the 37th Annual Conference Sponsored by the Middle East and Islamic Studies Association of Israel, held at Tel Aviv University, June 6, 2013. It marked the completion of my tenure as President of the MEISAI. I Convened and Closed the Conference as President, granted special plaques to senior scholars and turned over my authority to the newly- elected President

126. "As the Earth Shook: 40 Years to the Yom Kippur War" (under auspices of the Menachem Begin Center for the Study of Underground and Resistance Movements, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies – Bar-Ilan University, and the Academic College on the Sea of Galilee), 30-31 October 2013

127. "My Debate over the Book Hatred, Lies and Violence in the World of Islam by Professor Raphael Israeli at the Center for International Communications, Bar-Ilan University, 22 March 2015

128. Holocaust Denial in the Muslim World: A Symposium Organized at Bar-Ilan University by the Menachem Begin Institute for the Study of Resistance Movements, the Center for International Communications, and the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, 21 April 2015

129. "In the Complex Web of the Lebanon: A Research Conference Examining the War in Lebanon Ten Years Later, 2006-2016. Held at Bar-Ilan University on 15 June 2016 and organized by the University's Middle Eastern Studies Department. Chair of Panel: "Israel's Political and Military Strategy" with lectures by former Israeli Deputy Chief-of- Staff, General Moshe Kaplinsky, and former Defense Minister Amir Armand Peretz

130. "Globalization, Immigration, and Education at the Edge of the Jewish Diaspora." International Conference at Bar-Ilan University' School of Education, 4 July 2016. Chair of Panel "Research about Globalization and Immigration."

131. National Conference focusing on 1300 Years to the Creation of Ramla, Israel and Honoring Professor Yaacov Lev on the occasion of his becoming Professor Emeritus: I Chaired the first Panel entitled "Ramla: the Capital of Jund Filastin under the Umayyads, Fatimids, Seljuqs, Crusades, Ayyubids, and Mamluks." Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 22 November 2016

132. Lecture Series Sponsored at the Cinemateque in Tel Aviv: "Islam's Challenge to Europe," 5 February 2017

133. National Conference at Bar-Ilan University on the 70th Anniversary of the UN Partition Plan," 28 November 2017. You Chaired the Panel "Would the United Nations Partition Plan of 29 November 1947 been adopted Today?" Lectures by Daniel Shapiro, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel under the Obama Administration, Tsvi Maghen, former

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Israeli Ambassador to the Russian Federation, and Knesset Member Issawi Freij

134. National Conference in My Honor upon Becoming Professor Emeritus entitled "In the Crescent's Shadow: The Influences of Islamic Radicalism in Europe. Among the Invitees to lecture – Dr. Michael Oren, a former Israeli ambassador to the United States and deputy minister in the Prime Minister's Bureau; and Knesset Member Kassani Svetlova. My own Lecture: "Israel and Europe in the Shadow of the Middle East Crises and the Challenges Posed by Radical Islam." I gave a paper on "The European Community/European Union, Israel and the Arabo-Islamic World, 1967- 2018." Bar-Ilan University, 15 January 2018, organized by the Middle Eastern Studies Department under the direction of Dr. Yehuda A. Balanga

135. Military Encounters in the Galilee: 70 Years to the 1948 War, The Middle Eastern Studies Unit at Western Galilee Academic College, 5-10-2018: Chair & Respondent in the panel "Palestinian Arab Refugees & Jewish Refugees from Arab Lands."

136. 40 Years to the Israeli-Egyptian Peace Treaty, conference you organized within the Middle Eastern Studies Unit at Western Galilee Academic College. You also delivered the opening lecture. Title of the Paper: "Begin and Sadat between the Camp David Accords and the Israeli-Egyptian peace Treaty." You then gave a second lecture that summarized the conference.

137. The Ego-History International Conference at the Western Galilee Academic College. May 26-27, 2019. Your Paper: "Taking Credit for Organizing the Immigration to Israel: The Jewish Agency Emissaries in Morocco and Tunisia during the 1950s."

(פרופיל אקדמי) Academic Profile

Michael Menachem Laskier is full professor emeritus of modern history at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Bar-Ilan University, and the former director of the University's Center for the Study of Resistance Movements named after former Prime Minister Menachem Begin. He completed his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees with distinction at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He organized international scholarly conferences and served as president of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Association of Israel between 2011 and 2013. Between October 2012 and September 2017 he served as the academic head of the Kinneret Academic College on the Sea of Galilee which then operated under the auspices of Bar-Ilan University.

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Since March 2018, he teaches Middle Eastern history in the interdisciplinary department within The Academic College of Western Galilee where he is also a member of the faculty promotion committee.

Areas of research and teaching focus on Israel's relations with the Arab and Mediterranean worlds; Inter-Arab politics; Muslim-Jewish Relations; Islamic radicalism; the Jews in the Mediterranean Basin & and the Jewish community of France; and Islam in Europe.

I have written 194 articles and chapters (most of them peer-reviewed) and 17 books. Among his published books and those either completed or in progress: The Alliance Israélite Universelle and the Jewish Communities of Morocco: 1862-1962 (State University of New York Press, 1983); The Jews of Egypt, 1920-1970: In the Midst of Zionism, Anti-Semitism and the Middle East Conflict (New York University Press, 1992, 2nd edition 1993); Maghrebi Jewry in the Shadow of Vichy and the Swastika (Tel Aviv University Press, 1992); North African Jewry in the 20th Century: The Jews of Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria (New York University Press, 1994, 2nd edition 1997), Winner of the U.S. National Jewish Book Award; The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times (Columbia University Press, 2003), co-edited and written with Reeva S. Simon & Sara Reguer; Israel and the Maghreb: From Statehood to Oslo (University Press of Florida, 2004); Israel and the Aliyah from North Africa: 1948-1970 (Ben- Gurion University Press, 2006), Winner of the Renée and Nessim Ga'on Book Award for 2008; The Convergence of Judaism and Islam: The Religious, Scientific and Cultural Dimensions (University Press of Florida, 2011, co-edited with Yaacov Lev); The Divergence of Judaism and Islam: Interdependence, Modernity and Political Turmoil (University Press of Florida, 2011, co- edited with Yaacov Lev); Security and Political Challenges Put to the Test: Israel in the Arab and International Arenas (Bar-Ilan University Press, 2012, co-edited/co-written with Ronen Yitzhak); Terrorism on behalf of the Revolution: PLO-Soviet Relations, 1968-1991 (Bar-Ilan University Press, 2016, together with Hanoch Bazov).

Selected Publications in Advanced Stages

These include Egyptian Jewry in the realm of Islam: From the Seventh Century to the Present (completed in 2018, to be published, in French, by the prestigious Parisian press Albin Michel in 2020 or 2021; the first volume of As the Earth Trembled: The Yom Kippur War and Israeli Society (completed in January 2019, accepted for publication at Bar-Ilan University Press), is undergoing professional editing by the Press' staff; the second volume, As the Earth Trembled: Israel, the Arab World, and the Major Powers before the Yom Kippur War, in its Midst, and the Aftermath (this volume will be completed in April 2020 and submitted to Bar-Ilan University Press). The two volumes are co-edited and co-written by myself and Ze'ev Drory.

In September 2019 my article, "Prelude to Colonialism: Moroccan Muslims and Jews through Western Lenses, 1860-1912," was published in European Judaism, Volume 52, No. 2 (Autumn 2019): 110-128; my review of a major book North Africa and the Making of Europe, by Muriam Haleh Davis & Thomas Serres is "in press" to be published in December 2019 by the American Historical Review, which ranks internationally among the top 4 history journals.

I am currently involved in preparing two major book manuscripts: French Jewry, 1945-2015; as well as Israel and the Mediterranean: Five Decades of Uneasy Coexistence, 1948-1998 (this second manuscript together with Ronen Yitzhak).

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Courses Taught Over the Past 38 Years

The Arab-Israeli Conflict (undergraduate lecture)

Iranian Jewry: The Qajar Dynasty to the Ayatollahs (undergraduate lecture)

Israel and the Arab States: 1948-1978 (undergraduate seminar)

Media in the Arab States (undergraduate seminar)

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Libya under the Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi Regime

Europe and the Super Powers in the Middle East (undergraduate seminar)

Radical Islam in 20th Century Middle East & North Africa (undergraduate lecture)

Muslim-Jewish Relations in the Middle East/North Africa: 19th & 20th Centuries (undergraduate-level lecture)

Maghrebi Jewry in the Modern Period (taught as a survey, seminar+ lecture) Muslim North Africa in the Modern Period (undergraduate lecture)

Modern and Contemporary Jewish Social History (undergraduate lecture)

French Jewry since World War II (undergraduate lecture)

Halakha & Modernity: Response of Rabbis in Arab Lands to Modernization (undergraduate lecture)

Jews of Arab Lands between Pan-Arab Nationalism & the Arab-Israeli Conflict (undergraduate lecture)

The Jews of Egypt: From the End of World War I to the Dawn of Nasserism (undergraduate lecture)

The Jews in the Modern World (undergraduate lecture)

The Jews of Egypt in Modern Times (undergraduate lecture)

The Jews of Palestine in the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries (undergraduate seminar & lecture)

New American Jews: Persian, Russian and Israeli Jews in North America (continuing-education course)

Jews of French-Speaking Countries (continuing education) North Africa at the Age of Colonialism & Decolonization (lecture & pro-seminar) Islam & Nationalism in the Modern Maghreb (undergraduate seminar)

Egypt in the Twentieth Century (lecture and pro-Seminar)

Egypt in the Arab Arena at the Age of Nasserism (graduate seminar)

Co-existence and Encounters: Muslim-European-Jewish Relations in the Colonial Maghreb (lecture and pro-seminar)

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Algeria amid Radical Nationalism & Political Islam in the 20th - Early 21st Centuries (lecture and pro-seminar)

The Electronic Media, Press & Journalism in Egypt (graduate seminar)

Fifty Years since the Revolution: Society, Economy, and Politics in Egypt from Nasser to Mubarak (undergraduate seminar)

The Maghreb and the Inter-Arab Arena (lecture and pro-seminar)

Israel and the Maghreb (lecture and pro-seminar)

Egyptian History & Historiography in the 20th Century: Analysis of Arabic-Language Texts by Abd al-Rahman al-Rafi’i, Muhammad Shafiq Ghurbal, Muhammad Husayn Haykal, Muhammad Ramadan, Muhammad Anis, Latifa Muhammad Salim, Abdallah Imam

Egyptian Society and Globalization (lecture and pro-seminar)

State, Democracy, Civil Society in Contemporary Egypt (undergrad seminar)

The Struggle for Women's Rights and the Role of NGOs and Civil Society in the Arab States (graduate seminar)

European Colonialism in Egypt as Reflected in Egyptian Historiography

The Muslim Brotherhood and Takfir Movements in Egypt (lecture and pro-seminar) The Palace in Moroccan Politics & Society from Muhammad V to Muhammad VI (lecture and pro-seminar)

The House of Muhammad Ali in Egypt: 1805-1952 (lecture & pro-seminar) Social and Economic Development in Egyptian Society under Sadat and Mubarak (graduate seminar)

The Struggle for Independence in the Maghreb (undergraduate/graduate seminar) Islam and Modern Globalization: Tensions and Conflicts (lecture & pro-seminar) Islam in the Age of Globalization and the 'Clash of Civilizations' Controversy (lecture, graduate level)

Islam and Islamism in the Muslim World and the European Union (under-graduate seminar)

Social, Economic and Political Developments in the Maghreb – Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya – from the Sixteenth Century to the Early Twenty-First Century (graduate level seminar)

Islam in Europe – B.A. & MA/Graduate-Level lecture course

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Islamic Culture: From the Rise of Muhammedanism and the Caliphates to the High Middle Ages