Ofra Bengio
Biographic Data
| ID | 1060868 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ofra Bengio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ofra |
| FAMILY NAME | Bengio |
| SIGNATURE | BENGIO O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Anfal and Halabja Genocide
The 1987–1988 Anfal Campaign during which the Iraqi Baath regime massacred some 180,000 Kurdish Iraqis, 5,000 of whom killed by chemical weapons in the town of Halabja, is considered one of the major traumas in modern Kurdish history. Yet a few decades later, the Kurds appear to have risen from their proverbial ashes, embarking against great odds on an ambitious state building project in northern Iraq. With this story of “trauma and redemption” a…
Jews, Israel and the Kurds
This article examines the triangular relationship between Jews, Israel and Kurds with a view to unravelling the myths that revolved around them. It argues that the millenarian relationship between Kurdistan’s Jews and their non-Jewish neighbours notwithstanding, the myriad of ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ myths surrounding present-day Jewish-Israeli-Kurdish relations have flourished against the backdrop of a dearth of documented history of both Jewis…
Reclaiming National Identity in Kurdish School Textbooks
This article is a qualitative and comparative study of elementary school textbooks in the Kurdish autonomous enclave of Rojava in Syria and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Historical circumstances and political forces account for both superficial and ideological differences between the two sets of textbooks. Nonethless, despite the Rojava leadership's ostensible opposition to nationalism and the KRI's commitments to respect the states of the region…
Contextualizing the Kurdish national project
This article seeks to analyse the rise of Kurdistan in Iraq within the context of a panoramic picture of Iraq’s history by contrasting two schools of thought regarding this country’s failed system. One school of thought puts the blame on incompetent Iraqi rulers but mainly on the British colonialists who with their misdeeds, mismanagement and selfish interests brought Iraq to its present situation of a failed state. The other school of thought ar…
Game Changers
This article argues that Kurdish society historically enabled the rise of charismatic women. More recently, upheavals brought by the so-called Arab Spring have acted as a catalyst for Kurdish women to improve their social standing. Along with gains made by Kurds in creating new autonomous spaces, the advancement of Kurdish women constitutes a “double revolution” that shows the feminist and nationalist agendas can be complementary, and not in conf…
Mobilised diasporas
This study is a comparative analysis of the role of diaspora communities in the political and cultural activities of the Kurds and the Berbers (Amazigh) - the two most prominent cases of ethno-national “imagining” among the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region’s two main “non-dominant” ethnic groups. Berbers and Kurds, however heterogeneous and varied their multiple historical experiences, all operate within the realm of territorial nation-…
Constitution Making Under Occupation
Book Review| January 01 2011 Constitution Making Under Occupation: The Politics of Imposed Revolution in Iraq Arato, Andrew, Constitution Making Under Occupation: The Politics of Imposed Revolution in Iraq (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), 360 pp., ISBN 9780231143028 Ofra Bengio Ofra Bengio Tel-Aviv University, [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Bustan: The Middle East Book Review (2011) 2 …
The “Kurdish Spring” in Turkey and its Impact on Turkish Foreign Relations in the Middle East
For many years the world used to hear about the Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan (PKK) terrorist actions in Turkey. Recently, however, a new factor entered the scene with great force—a popular uprising which resembles in some ways the Palestinian intifada and the other uprisings which have taken place since the end of 2010 in Arab countries. In the Kurdish lexicon it is called serhildan. The fusion between well-organized guerrilla activities and an ope…
The Turkish-Israeli Relationship
Turkey and Israel are two of the most important countries in the Middle East, but also are outsiders to the region for political and cultural reasons. Here Bengio examines the historic, geo-strategic
Old Grievances, New Fears
Les AA. examinent la triangulation des relations entre les pays arabes, la Turquie et Israel depuis l'alignement strategique de la Turquie et d'Israel suite a la signature, en 1996, d'une serie d'accords militaires entre les deux pays. Ils tentent notamment d'elucider les questions suivantes : Quels sont les facteurs qui ont influence les relations entre la Turquie et les pays arabes, et dans quelle mesure le facteur israelien a-t-il joue un role…
A Republican Turning Royalist? Saddam Husayn and the Dilemmas of Succession
The issue of succession has forced itself upon the Iraqi scene in the last few years for three main reasons: President Saddam Husayn's policies aimed at preserving as much power as possible in the hands of his family and establishing the basis for hereditary rule; growing pressure from the USA, Britain and the Iraqi opposition in the diaspora, to bring about a change of regime in Iraq; and the ‘trend’ towards a generational change of leaders now …
How Does Saddam Hold on
T. S. Eliot called April the crudest month. It is also, fittingly, the month most cherished by Saddam Hussein?the month in which he was born and in which his ruling Baath Party was founded. To celebrate Saddam's April 28 one year, 15 million Iraqis reportedly lit candles to demonstrate their joy; in other years, fireworks, parties, processions (with the ruler sometimes borne in a royal carriage), and exhibitions of photographs of a beaming Saddam…
Saddam's word
This is the first serious attempt to understand modern Iraq through a close examination of the political discourse used by the Ba'th regime and its leader, Hussein. By analysing political terms, concepts, and idioms as disseminated through the official Iraqi mouthpieces, author Ofra Bengio illuminates Iraq's political culture and the events that these expressions have both reflected and shaped. Not only does this study add to our understanding of…
Minorities and the State in the Arab World
A comprehensive discussion of minorities and ethnic politics in eight Arab countries, focusing on the strategic political choices made by minorities, majorities, and regimes in power
The challenge to the territorial integrity of Iraq
(1995). The challenge to the territorial integrity of Iraq. Survival: Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 74-94
The Iraqi Kurds
This article examines the intricate relationship between the Kurds of Iraq and the Iraqi‐Iranian conflict. In the final analysis, the Kurds were both a major beneficiary but at the same time also the major losers from it. This situation became manifest during the Iraqi‐Iranian war which started in September 1980 and ended in August 1988. Hoping to manipulate the war in order to achieve a meaningful autonomy, the Kurds both received support from I…
Shi'is and politics in Ba'thi Iraq
(1985). Shi'is and politics in Ba'thi Iraq. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 1-14
Game Changers
This article argues that Kurdish society historically enabled the rise of charismatic women. More recently, upheavals brought by the so-called Arab Spring have acted as a catalyst for Kurdish women to improve their social standing. Along with gains made by Kurds in creating new autonomous spaces, the advancement of Kurdish women constitutes a “double revolution” that shows the feminist and nationalist agendas can be complementary, and not in conf…
Shi'is and politics in Ba'thi Iraq
(1985). Shi'is and politics in Ba'thi Iraq. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 1-14
Old Grievances, New Fears
Les AA. examinent la triangulation des relations entre les pays arabes, la Turquie et Israel depuis l'alignement strategique de la Turquie et d'Israel suite a la signature, en 1996, d'une serie d'accords militaires entre les deux pays. Ils tentent notamment d'elucider les questions suivantes : Quels sont les facteurs qui ont influence les relations entre la Turquie et les pays arabes, et dans quelle mesure le facteur israelien a-t-il joue un role…
The “Kurdish Spring” in Turkey and its Impact on Turkish Foreign Relations in the Middle East
For many years the world used to hear about the Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan (PKK) terrorist actions in Turkey. Recently, however, a new factor entered the scene with great force—a popular uprising which resembles in some ways the Palestinian intifada and the other uprisings which have taken place since the end of 2010 in Arab countries. In the Kurdish lexicon it is called serhildan. The fusion between well-organized guerrilla activities and an ope…
How Does Saddam Hold on
T. S. Eliot called April the crudest month. It is also, fittingly, the month most cherished by Saddam Hussein?the month in which he was born and in which his ruling Baath Party was founded. To celebrate Saddam's April 28 one year, 15 million Iraqis reportedly lit candles to demonstrate their joy; in other years, fireworks, parties, processions (with the ruler sometimes borne in a royal carriage), and exhibitions of photographs of a beaming Saddam…
The challenge to the territorial integrity of Iraq
(1995). The challenge to the territorial integrity of Iraq. Survival: Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 74-94
Anfal and Halabja Genocide
The 1987–1988 Anfal Campaign during which the Iraqi Baath regime massacred some 180,000 Kurdish Iraqis, 5,000 of whom killed by chemical weapons in the town of Halabja, is considered one of the major traumas in modern Kurdish history. Yet a few decades later, the Kurds appear to have risen from their proverbial ashes, embarking against great odds on an ambitious state building project in northern Iraq. With this story of “trauma and redemption” a…
Jews, Israel and the Kurds
This article examines the triangular relationship between Jews, Israel and Kurds with a view to unravelling the myths that revolved around them. It argues that the millenarian relationship between Kurdistan’s Jews and their non-Jewish neighbours notwithstanding, the myriad of ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ myths surrounding present-day Jewish-Israeli-Kurdish relations have flourished against the backdrop of a dearth of documented history of both Jewis…
Reclaiming National Identity in Kurdish School Textbooks
This article is a qualitative and comparative study of elementary school textbooks in the Kurdish autonomous enclave of Rojava in Syria and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Historical circumstances and political forces account for both superficial and ideological differences between the two sets of textbooks. Nonethless, despite the Rojava leadership's ostensible opposition to nationalism and the KRI's commitments to respect the states of the region…
Contextualizing the Kurdish national project
This article seeks to analyse the rise of Kurdistan in Iraq within the context of a panoramic picture of Iraq’s history by contrasting two schools of thought regarding this country’s failed system. One school of thought puts the blame on incompetent Iraqi rulers but mainly on the British colonialists who with their misdeeds, mismanagement and selfish interests brought Iraq to its present situation of a failed state. The other school of thought ar…
Shi'is and politics in Ba'thi Iraq
(1985). Shi'is and politics in Ba'thi Iraq. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 1-14
The Iraqi Kurds
This article examines the intricate relationship between the Kurds of Iraq and the Iraqi‐Iranian conflict. In the final analysis, the Kurds were both a major beneficiary but at the same time also the major losers from it. This situation became manifest during the Iraqi‐Iranian war which started in September 1980 and ended in August 1988. Hoping to manipulate the war in order to achieve a meaningful autonomy, the Kurds both received support from I…
The challenge to the territorial integrity of Iraq
(1995). The challenge to the territorial integrity of Iraq. Survival: Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 74-94
Saddam's word
This is the first serious attempt to understand modern Iraq through a close examination of the political discourse used by the Ba'th regime and its leader, Hussein. By analysing political terms, concepts, and idioms as disseminated through the official Iraqi mouthpieces, author Ofra Bengio illuminates Iraq's political culture and the events that these expressions have both reflected and shaped. Not only does this study add to our understanding of…
Minorities and the State in the Arab World
A comprehensive discussion of minorities and ethnic politics in eight Arab countries, focusing on the strategic political choices made by minorities, majorities, and regimes in power
A Republican Turning Royalist? Saddam Husayn and the Dilemmas of Succession
The issue of succession has forced itself upon the Iraqi scene in the last few years for three main reasons: President Saddam Husayn's policies aimed at preserving as much power as possible in the hands of his family and establishing the basis for hereditary rule; growing pressure from the USA, Britain and the Iraqi opposition in the diaspora, to bring about a change of regime in Iraq; and the ‘trend’ towards a generational change of leaders now …
How Does Saddam Hold on
T. S. Eliot called April the crudest month. It is also, fittingly, the month most cherished by Saddam Hussein?the month in which he was born and in which his ruling Baath Party was founded. To celebrate Saddam's April 28 one year, 15 million Iraqis reportedly lit candles to demonstrate their joy; in other years, fireworks, parties, processions (with the ruler sometimes borne in a royal carriage), and exhibitions of photographs of a beaming Saddam…
Old Grievances, New Fears
Les AA. examinent la triangulation des relations entre les pays arabes, la Turquie et Israel depuis l'alignement strategique de la Turquie et d'Israel suite a la signature, en 1996, d'une serie d'accords militaires entre les deux pays. Ils tentent notamment d'elucider les questions suivantes : Quels sont les facteurs qui ont influence les relations entre la Turquie et les pays arabes, et dans quelle mesure le facteur israelien a-t-il joue un role…
The Turkish-Israeli Relationship
Turkey and Israel are two of the most important countries in the Middle East, but also are outsiders to the region for political and cultural reasons. Here Bengio examines the historic, geo-strategic
Constitution Making Under Occupation
Book Review| January 01 2011 Constitution Making Under Occupation: The Politics of Imposed Revolution in Iraq Arato, Andrew, Constitution Making Under Occupation: The Politics of Imposed Revolution in Iraq (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), 360 pp., ISBN 9780231143028 Ofra Bengio Ofra Bengio Tel-Aviv University, [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Bustan: The Middle East Book Review (2011) 2 …
The “Kurdish Spring” in Turkey and its Impact on Turkish Foreign Relations in the Middle East
For many years the world used to hear about the Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan (PKK) terrorist actions in Turkey. Recently, however, a new factor entered the scene with great force—a popular uprising which resembles in some ways the Palestinian intifada and the other uprisings which have taken place since the end of 2010 in Arab countries. In the Kurdish lexicon it is called serhildan. The fusion between well-organized guerrilla activities and an ope…
Mobilised diasporas
This study is a comparative analysis of the role of diaspora communities in the political and cultural activities of the Kurds and the Berbers (Amazigh) - the two most prominent cases of ethno-national “imagining” among the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region’s two main “non-dominant” ethnic groups. Berbers and Kurds, however heterogeneous and varied their multiple historical experiences, all operate within the realm of territorial nation-…
Game Changers
This article argues that Kurdish society historically enabled the rise of charismatic women. More recently, upheavals brought by the so-called Arab Spring have acted as a catalyst for Kurdish women to improve their social standing. Along with gains made by Kurds in creating new autonomous spaces, the advancement of Kurdish women constitutes a “double revolution” that shows the feminist and nationalist agendas can be complementary, and not in conf…
Contextualizing the Kurdish national project
This article seeks to analyse the rise of Kurdistan in Iraq within the context of a panoramic picture of Iraq’s history by contrasting two schools of thought regarding this country’s failed system. One school of thought puts the blame on incompetent Iraqi rulers but mainly on the British colonialists who with their misdeeds, mismanagement and selfish interests brought Iraq to its present situation of a failed state. The other school of thought ar…
Reclaiming National Identity in Kurdish School Textbooks
This article is a qualitative and comparative study of elementary school textbooks in the Kurdish autonomous enclave of Rojava in Syria and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Historical circumstances and political forces account for both superficial and ideological differences between the two sets of textbooks. Nonethless, despite the Rojava leadership's ostensible opposition to nationalism and the KRI's commitments to respect the states of the region…
Jews, Israel and the Kurds
This article examines the triangular relationship between Jews, Israel and Kurds with a view to unravelling the myths that revolved around them. It argues that the millenarian relationship between Kurdistan’s Jews and their non-Jewish neighbours notwithstanding, the myriad of ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ myths surrounding present-day Jewish-Israeli-Kurdish relations have flourished against the backdrop of a dearth of documented history of both Jewis…
Anfal and Halabja Genocide
The 1987–1988 Anfal Campaign during which the Iraqi Baath regime massacred some 180,000 Kurdish Iraqis, 5,000 of whom killed by chemical weapons in the town of Halabja, is considered one of the major traumas in modern Kurdish history. Yet a few decades later, the Kurds appear to have risen from their proverbial ashes, embarking against great odds on an ambitious state building project in northern Iraq. With this story of “trauma and redemption” a…
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