Asher Ḳaufman
Biographic Data
| ID | 5443191 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Asher Ḳaufman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Asher |
| FAMILY NAME | Ḳaufman |
| SIGNATURE | KAUFMAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Schlumberger (Ireland) |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9769-005X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The June 1985 Withdrawal That Never Was: Reevaluating the 1983 Israel-Lebanon Agreement and the Creation of the Security Zone in South Lebanon
This article revisits the 1983 Israel-Lebanon Agreement using new archival material, mainly from the Israel State Archives, with three main goals. First, it demonstrates the centrality of the agreement for Israeli schemes in Lebanon and argues that Israeli demands during the negotiations shed new light on its decision to stay in Lebanon in June 1985, despite the government decision of January 1985 to withdraw to the international border. Second, …
Reaching for the Heights: The Inside Story of a Secret Attempt to Reach Syrian-Israeli Peace
Imagine that Syria and Israel had signed a peace agreement in March 2011—just before the start of the anti-regime demonstrations—an agreement stipulating that Israel withdraw completely from the Golan Heights in exchange for Syria recalibrating its foreign relations and ceasing its support for Israel’s adversaries, Hizballah, Iran, and Hamas, as well as backing an Israeli Palestinian resumption of peace talks. How would the Middle East look today…
Belonging and Continuity: Israeli Druze and Lebanon, 1982–2000
This article analyzes spatial perceptions and practices of Druze citizens of Israel before, during, and after the Israeli occupation of South Lebanon in 1982−2000. It argues that the opening of the Israel–Lebanon border in 1982 and its closing in 2000 had three effects: it generated internal social, political, and cultural changes within the community in Israel; it changed the relationship of the Druze with the State of Israel; and it reestablish…
Reviving Phoenicia: The Search for Identity in Lebanon
This study follows the social, intellectual and political development of the Phoenician myth of origin in Lebanon from the middle of the 19th century to the end of the 20th. Asher Kaufman demonstrates the role played by the lay, liberal Syrian-Lebanese who resided in Beirut, Alexandria and America towards the end of the 19th century in the birth and dissemination of this myth. Kaufman investigates the crucial place Phoenicianism occupied in the f…
Thinking Beyond Direct Violence
The thought-provoking roundtable on “theorizing violence” in the November 2013 issue of IJMES paid much attention to different manifestations of physical violence. This is the type of violence that as early as 1969 Johan Galtung, one of the founders of the field of peace studies, termed direct violence, distinguishing it from other forms of violence, to which I will refer below. Direct violence, Galtung noted, is related to “ somatic incapacitati…
Between Permeable and Sealed Borders: The Trans-Arabian Pipeline and the Arab–israeli Conflict
The Trans-Arabian Pipeline (Tapline), which extended from Dhahran in Saudi Arabia to Zahrani in Lebanon and operated from 1950 to 1982, was haunted by the Arab–Israeli conflict throughout the years of its operation. The route of the pipeline—which traversed Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon—was chosen so as to circumvent Palestine/Israel. However, following the Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights in the 1967 war, Israel became an activ…
Contested Frontiers in the Syria-Lebanon-Israel Region: Cartography, Sovereignty, and Conflict
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: On Ghajar and Other Anomalies in the Syria-Lebanon-Israel Tri-Border Region
This article argues that the partition of the village of Ghajar between Israel and Lebanon by the Israeli Line of Withdrawal, as determined by the United Nations in 2000, was based on historical and cartographical errors. It demonstrates that the entire village was controlled by Syria until the June 1967 war when Israel occupied it along with the Golan Heights. The article shows that the entire pre-1967 tri-border region of Syria, Lebanon, and Is…
Too Much French, but a Swell Exhibit’: Representing Lebanon at the New York World's Fair 1939–1940
This article investigates the participation of Lebanon in the 1939 New York World's Fair. Through an analysis of the preparations in Lebanon, the inauguration ceremony of the pavilion in New York and its displayed content, three main themes are highlighted. First, the article focuses on the relationship between French colonial conduct and its impact on Lebanese elites. Second, it demonstrates the complexity of inter and intra-sectarian dynamics i…
Between Palestine and Lebanon: Seven Shi'i Villages as a Case Study of Boundaries, Identities, and Conflict
This article follows the fate of the only seven Shi'i villages in Mandatory Palestine, beginning in the time of the border demarcation between Palestine and Lebanon (1919-1924) and concluding with Hizbullah's demand to retrieve their territories back to Lebanon (2000). The article examines the relations of the villages with the Jewish Yishuv and with the Sunni population in Palestine during the British Mandate; their fate as Palestinian refugees …
Tell Us Our History’: Charles Corm, Mount Lebanon and Lebanese Nationalism
"Kaufman, "The Temple of Jerusalem: Tractate Middot
Determining the Length of the Medium Cubit
Between Palestine and Lebanon: Seven Shi'i Villages as a Case Study of Boundaries, Identities, and Conflict
This article follows the fate of the only seven Shi'i villages in Mandatory Palestine, beginning in the time of the border demarcation between Palestine and Lebanon (1919-1924) and concluding with Hizbullah's demand to retrieve their territories back to Lebanon (2000). The article examines the relations of the villages with the Jewish Yishuv and with the Sunni population in Palestine during the British Mandate; their fate as Palestinian refugees …
Belonging and Continuity: Israeli Druze and Lebanon, 1982–2000
This article analyzes spatial perceptions and practices of Druze citizens of Israel before, during, and after the Israeli occupation of South Lebanon in 1982−2000. It argues that the opening of the Israel–Lebanon border in 1982 and its closing in 2000 had three effects: it generated internal social, political, and cultural changes within the community in Israel; it changed the relationship of the Druze with the State of Israel; and it reestablish…
Tell Us Our History’: Charles Corm, Mount Lebanon and Lebanese Nationalism
Determining the Length of the Medium Cubit
Thinking Beyond Direct Violence
The thought-provoking roundtable on “theorizing violence” in the November 2013 issue of IJMES paid much attention to different manifestations of physical violence. This is the type of violence that as early as 1969 Johan Galtung, one of the founders of the field of peace studies, termed direct violence, distinguishing it from other forms of violence, to which I will refer below. Direct violence, Galtung noted, is related to “ somatic incapacitati…
Between Permeable and Sealed Borders: The Trans-Arabian Pipeline and the Arab–israeli Conflict
The Trans-Arabian Pipeline (Tapline), which extended from Dhahran in Saudi Arabia to Zahrani in Lebanon and operated from 1950 to 1982, was haunted by the Arab–Israeli conflict throughout the years of its operation. The route of the pipeline—which traversed Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon—was chosen so as to circumvent Palestine/Israel. However, following the Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights in the 1967 war, Israel became an activ…
Too Much French, but a Swell Exhibit’: Representing Lebanon at the New York World's Fair 1939–1940
This article investigates the participation of Lebanon in the 1939 New York World's Fair. Through an analysis of the preparations in Lebanon, the inauguration ceremony of the pavilion in New York and its displayed content, three main themes are highlighted. First, the article focuses on the relationship between French colonial conduct and its impact on Lebanese elites. Second, it demonstrates the complexity of inter and intra-sectarian dynamics i…
Determining the Length of the Medium Cubit
"Kaufman, "The Temple of Jerusalem: Tractate Middot
Tell Us Our History’: Charles Corm, Mount Lebanon and Lebanese Nationalism
Between Palestine and Lebanon: Seven Shi'i Villages as a Case Study of Boundaries, Identities, and Conflict
This article follows the fate of the only seven Shi'i villages in Mandatory Palestine, beginning in the time of the border demarcation between Palestine and Lebanon (1919-1924) and concluding with Hizbullah's demand to retrieve their territories back to Lebanon (2000). The article examines the relations of the villages with the Jewish Yishuv and with the Sunni population in Palestine during the British Mandate; their fate as Palestinian refugees …
Too Much French, but a Swell Exhibit’: Representing Lebanon at the New York World's Fair 1939–1940
This article investigates the participation of Lebanon in the 1939 New York World's Fair. Through an analysis of the preparations in Lebanon, the inauguration ceremony of the pavilion in New York and its displayed content, three main themes are highlighted. First, the article focuses on the relationship between French colonial conduct and its impact on Lebanese elites. Second, it demonstrates the complexity of inter and intra-sectarian dynamics i…
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: On Ghajar and Other Anomalies in the Syria-Lebanon-Israel Tri-Border Region
This article argues that the partition of the village of Ghajar between Israel and Lebanon by the Israeli Line of Withdrawal, as determined by the United Nations in 2000, was based on historical and cartographical errors. It demonstrates that the entire village was controlled by Syria until the June 1967 war when Israel occupied it along with the Golan Heights. The article shows that the entire pre-1967 tri-border region of Syria, Lebanon, and Is…
Contested Frontiers in the Syria-Lebanon-Israel Region: Cartography, Sovereignty, and Conflict
Reviving Phoenicia: The Search for Identity in Lebanon
This study follows the social, intellectual and political development of the Phoenician myth of origin in Lebanon from the middle of the 19th century to the end of the 20th. Asher Kaufman demonstrates the role played by the lay, liberal Syrian-Lebanese who resided in Beirut, Alexandria and America towards the end of the 19th century in the birth and dissemination of this myth. Kaufman investigates the crucial place Phoenicianism occupied in the f…
Thinking Beyond Direct Violence
The thought-provoking roundtable on “theorizing violence” in the November 2013 issue of IJMES paid much attention to different manifestations of physical violence. This is the type of violence that as early as 1969 Johan Galtung, one of the founders of the field of peace studies, termed direct violence, distinguishing it from other forms of violence, to which I will refer below. Direct violence, Galtung noted, is related to “ somatic incapacitati…
Between Permeable and Sealed Borders: The Trans-Arabian Pipeline and the Arab–israeli Conflict
The Trans-Arabian Pipeline (Tapline), which extended from Dhahran in Saudi Arabia to Zahrani in Lebanon and operated from 1950 to 1982, was haunted by the Arab–Israeli conflict throughout the years of its operation. The route of the pipeline—which traversed Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon—was chosen so as to circumvent Palestine/Israel. However, following the Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights in the 1967 war, Israel became an activ…
Belonging and Continuity: Israeli Druze and Lebanon, 1982–2000
This article analyzes spatial perceptions and practices of Druze citizens of Israel before, during, and after the Israeli occupation of South Lebanon in 1982−2000. It argues that the opening of the Israel–Lebanon border in 1982 and its closing in 2000 had three effects: it generated internal social, political, and cultural changes within the community in Israel; it changed the relationship of the Druze with the State of Israel; and it reestablish…
Reaching for the Heights: The Inside Story of a Secret Attempt to Reach Syrian-Israeli Peace
Imagine that Syria and Israel had signed a peace agreement in March 2011—just before the start of the anti-regime demonstrations—an agreement stipulating that Israel withdraw completely from the Golan Heights in exchange for Syria recalibrating its foreign relations and ceasing its support for Israel’s adversaries, Hizballah, Iran, and Hamas, as well as backing an Israeli Palestinian resumption of peace talks. How would the Middle East look today…
The June 1985 Withdrawal That Never Was: Reevaluating the 1983 Israel-Lebanon Agreement and the Creation of the Security Zone in South Lebanon
This article revisits the 1983 Israel-Lebanon Agreement using new archival material, mainly from the Israel State Archives, with three main goals. First, it demonstrates the centrality of the agreement for Israeli schemes in Lebanon and argues that Israeli demands during the negotiations shed new light on its decision to stay in Lebanon in June 1985, despite the government decision of January 1985 to withdraw to the international border. Second, …
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