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Updated: December 2008
Personal
Education
| 1993-1996 |
Ph.D., Aranne School of History, Tel-Aviv University.
Dissertation: The Role of the Press and Journalistic Discourse in the Arab Palestinian National Struggle, 1929-1939;
Supervisor: Prof. Israel Gershoni |
| 1984-1987 |
M.A., Aranne School of History, Tel-Aviv University.
Thesis: The War of Attrition as Reflected in Egyptian Sources;
Supervisor: Prof. Yehuda Wallach |
| 1981-1984 |
B.A., Department of Middle Eastern History and Arabic Literature, Tel-Aviv University |
Academic Experience
| 2007 |
Senior Lecturer & Researcher, The Open University |
| 2004-2007 |
Lecturer and Researcher, The Open University |
| 2004-2007 |
Lecturer, The Department of Communications, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| 2002 – 2004 |
Teacher, The Arab Academic Institute, Beit Berl College |
| 1992-2004 |
Researcher, Tutor, and Consultant on the Development of new courses on Islam and Middle Eastern History, the Open University of Israel |
| 1998-2002 |
Instructor, The Department of Communications, The Multidisciplinary Department, Emek Yezreel College |
| 1998 – 1999 |
Teacher, the Department of Middle East History, Tel Aviv University |
| 1998-1999 |
Instructor, the Department of Middle East History, Haifa University |
Professional Experience
| 1992-2004 |
Researcher, Tutor, and Consultant on the Development of new courses on Islam and Middle East History, The Open University |
| 1996-2002 |
Contributor to History Curriculum Studies, Coordinator and Teacher for In-Service Training Programs for Teachers of History, The Department of Curriculum Development, The Ministry of Education and Culture |
| 1986-1992 |
Teacher, History and Arabic Culture, Yafeh Comprehensive High School |
Research Fields
- Middle Eastern History in the New Era
- The History of the Palestinian National Movement
- The History of Arab Mass Communications
Scholarships and Prizes
| 2005 |
Israel Science Foundation Grant (ISF) |
| 2005 |
Ma'of Scholarship, The Council for Higher Education |
| 1997 |
Aranne Scholarship, The School of History, Tel-Aviv University |
| 1995 |
Uriel and Lora Dann Scholarship |
| 1995 |
Ben-Gurion Scholarship, The Histadrut Labor Federation |
| 1994 |
David Horowitz Institute for the Research of Developing Countries, Tel-Aviv University |
Reports for Refereed Publications
| 2001 |
Palestinian and Israeli Intellectuals in the Shadow of Oslo and The Al-Aqsa Intifada, The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, Tel-Aviv University |
| 2003 |
State Formation and Media Regime in Palestine, The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, Tel-Aviv University |
Membership in Professional Societies
| 1990-2004 |
The Association of Military History in Israel, Tel Aviv University |
| 1996-2004 |
The Historical Society of Israel |
| 2001-2004 |
The Association for Israel Studies |
| 2004 |
The Middle East Studies Association |
Responsibility for Open University Courses
| The Arab Community in Israel, development (with Dr. Ilana Kaufman) |
| The Modern Middle East, member of the course-development team |
| The Middle East Between the World Wars, member of the course-development team |
| Jews Among Muslims, member of the course-development team |
| Islam: Introduction to the History of the Religion, assisted in preparation of the course textbook |
Teaching Experience
| 1986-1992 |
Teacher of History and Arabic Literature, Yafeh Comprehensive High School |
| 1992-2004 |
Tutor, Introduction to the Modern History of the Middle East |
| 1994-2004 |
Tutor, The Middle East Between Two World-Wars |
| 1997-2004 |
Tutor, History of Zionism - 1881 to 1914 |
| 1997-2004 |
Tutor, Europe - the Cradle of Nationalism |
Publications
Academic Publications
| 1. |
USA-Egypt Relations in the 1967 War (1987), Nazareth (Arabic). |
| 2. |
The Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936-1939 (1988), Nazareth (Arabic). |
| 3. |
The War of Attrition as Reflected in Egyptian Sources (1995), Yad Tabenkin & Tel-Aviv University (Hebrew). |
| 4. |
Mustafa Kabha and Ronit Barzilai, Refugees in Their Land – The Internal Refugees in Israel 1948-1996 (1996), Givat Haviva (Hebrew). |
| 5. |
Mustafa Kabha and Nimer Serhan, Bshir Ibrahim, The Judge and the Rebel, 1936-1939 (2000), Ramallah (Arabic). |
| 6. |
Mustafa Kabha and Nmer Sirhan, Bilad al-Rouha (Menashe Region) Under British Mandate, Sindyana as A Case-Study (2004), Ramallah (Arabic). |
| 7. |
Under the Eyes of the Censor, The Palestinian Press in the National Movement between the Two World War (2004), The Center for Arabic Literature Studies, Beit-Berl College (Arabic). |
| 8. |
The Press in the Eye of the Storm: The Palestinian Press Shapes Public Opinion 1929-1939 (2004), Yad Ben-Zvi & The Open University of Israel (Hebrew). |
| 9. |
Towards a Historical Narrative of the Nakba: Complexities and Challenges (ed.) (2006), Mada - Arab Center for Applied Social Research, Haifa (Arabic). |
| 10. |
Writing up The Storm- The Palestinian Press Shaping Public Opinion. Vallentine Mitchell Academic, London (forthcoming). |
Articles in Refereed Books
| 1. |
The challenges of writing Palestinian modern history: The emergency of writing a complete narrative, in Mustafa Kabha, Towards a Historical Narrative of the Nakba, Complexities and Challenges (2006), Mada - Arab Center for Applied Social Research, Haifa, 5-25. |
| 2. |
A Palestinian look at the new historians and post-Zionism in Israel, in Benny Morris (ed.), Making Israel, Michigan University Press (forthcoming). |
| 3. |
The role of Jews of eastern origin in rebuilding the Arabic journalistic discourse in Israel, 1948-1967, Studies in Honor of Prof. Sasson Somekh, The Department of Arabic Literature, Tel-Aviv University (forthcoming). |
| 4. |
A net without borders: Online journalism among the Arab populations in Israel, in Dan Caspi (ed.), Online Journalism in Israel, The Israeli Institute of Democracy, Jerusalem (forthcoming, Hebrew). |
Articles in Refereed Journals
| 1. |
The role of the Palestinian press in publicizing and organizing the general strike April-October 1936, Iyunim Be'tkumat Israel, 11 (2001) 212-230 (Hebrew). |
| 2. |
The Haganah in Arab and Palestinian historiography and media, Israel Studies, 7, Fall 2002, 45-61 (with Sarah Osezki-Lazar). |
| 3. |
Muslims and Franks in Bilad Ash-Sham: intensified religious fidelity and higher barriers, Al-Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean, 15 (March 2003), 47-58 (with Daphna Ephrat). |
| 4. |
The Palestinian press and the general strike of April-October 1936: Filastin as a case study, Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (July 2003) 169-190. |
| 5. |
The popular courts of the Palestinian-Arab revolt, 1936 -1939, Zemanim, 92 (Autumn 2005) 26-35 (Hebrew). |
| 6. |
M. Kabha and H. Erlich, Al-Ahbash and the Wahhabiyya: Interpretations of Islam. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 38 (2006). |
Book Reviews
| 1. |
Hagar Hillel (2004), Israel in Cairo, A Zionist Newspaper in National Egypt. Am Oved Publishers, 2004, Pi'amim, 100, Summer 2005 (Hebrew). |
| 2. |
Mahmud Ghanayim (ed.) Al-Jadid in a Half Century, A Bibliographical Index, Beit Berl College, 2004, Jamma'a (forthcoming, Summer-Autumn 2006) (Hebrew). |
| 3. |
Ami Ayalon (2004), Reading, Palestine Printing and Literacy, 1900-1948, University of Texas, Hahadash (forthcoming, Hebrew). |
Open University Publications (in Hebrew)
The Modern Middle East, Vol. 6, The Palestinians, A People Dispersed (forthcoming).
Translations
| 1. |
Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv, Hostile Partnership, Nazareth: 1989 |
| 2. |
Zvi Elpeleg, The Grand Mufti, Acre: 1992 |
| 3. |
Shimon Peres, The New Middle-East, Nazareth: 1994 |
Others
| 1. |
The Regime of Kadaffi in Libya, Al Kalam, 4 (May 1987) (Arabic). |
| 2. |
The First Contacts between the Amir Abdulla and The Jewish Agency, Al- Aswar, 8 (Autumn 1990) (Arabic). |
| 3. |
The Palestinian Press during the Period of the British Mandate (1995), Hurewitz Institute for Research in Developing Countries, Tel-Aviv University (Hebrew). |
| 4. |
My Enemy's Enemy is My Friend: The Palestinian National Movement and its Attitude towards Fascism and Nazism, Zemanim, 67 (Summer 1999) (Hebrew). |
| 5. |
The Plot and the Victim, Kfar Kassem Massacre in the Arab Palestinian Historiography (published in Hebrew), R. Rosenthal (ed.), Kfar Kassem Events and Myths, Sidrat Kav Adom, Kibbutz Hameuchad Publications, 2000. |
| 6. |
The Arab Press in Israel on the Al-Aqsa Intifada and its Ramifications (published in Hebrew) Ha'ein Ha'shvieit, 29, Nov. 2000 (Hebrew). |
| 7. |
From Sacred Jerusalem to the Spring, Themes in the Arab Press in Israel, (with Dan Caspi), Panim (March 2001) (Hebrew). |
| 8. |
The Haganah Organization in the Eyes of Arabs (with Sarah Osezki-Lazer), Alei Zait (Summer 2002) 303-343 (Hebrew). |
| 9. |
The Arab press in Israel 1948-2006, as an apparatus in the identity-building process, Herzog Institute of Communications, Tel-Aviv University. (forthcoming ) (Hebrew). |
Conference Presentations in Israel
| 1. |
Sixty Years to the Arab Revolt in Israel, 1936-1939, The Open University of Israel, 4 June 1996 |
| 2. |
Israeli Society through the Eyes of Arab Researchers, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, 23 June 1996 |
| 3. |
Fifty Years to the State of Israel, Researchers Conference, The Truman Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 26 March 1998 |
| 4. |
The Media and Sectarianism in Israel, The Open University of Israel, 8 January 1998 |
| 5. |
Dispersed Communities, Renewed Identities, the Immigration of Jews from Islamic Countries, Researchers' Conference, Haifa University, 16 June 1998 |
| 6. |
Relations between Israel and the Palestinian National Movement through the Perspective of the Oslo Accords, Researchers Conference, The Ben Gurion Heritage Centre in Sdeh Boker, 1-2 July 1998 |
| 7. |
Relations between Jews and Arabs during the Mandate Period, The Historical Society of Israel, The Institute for Peace Studies, Givat Haviva, 19 June 1999 |
| 8. |
The Arabs and the Media in Israel, The Jewish-Arab Centre, Haifa University, 16 May 2000 |
| 9. |
The War of Independence in Israel - New Research, The Yad Ben Zvi Institute for Israel Studies, 10 May 2002 |
| 10. |
Media and Politics in Israel: the Power of the Media, Gilo Center for Education on Democracy and Civics, The Hebrew University, 9 April 2002 |
| 11. |
Egypt and Sudan, Annual Conference of The Israeli Oriental Society, Haifa University, 7 May 2002 |
| 12. |
Majority and Minority Relations in the State of Israel, Truman Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 17 October 2002 |
| 13. |
Palestinian Arabs in Israel: between Integration and Disintegration, The Jewish-Arab Centre, Haifa University, 27 October 2002 |
| 14. |
Open Border, Closed Border: Between Israel and the Palestinians, Tel-Aviv University, 12 January 2003 |
| 15. |
Haaretz: Portrait of A Newspaper, The Institute for the Study of Zionism, Tel-Aviv University, 12 May 2003 |
| 16. |
Globalization and Anti-Globalization, The 25th Conference of the Israeli Sociological Association. Ben-Gurion University, Beersheva, 26 February 2004 |
| 17. |
The Arab Press in Israel, Beit Berl College, The Center for Arab Literature Research in Israel, 28 February 2004 |
| 18. |
Online Journalism in Israel, The Israeli Institute of Democracy, Jerusalem, 15 February 2005 |
| 19. |
The Press in A Changeable World: Jews and Arabs in the Muslim Countries, The Open University of Israel, 25 December 2005 |
| 20. |
Culture in the Middle East in the Modern Era, The Open University and Umm al-Fahem Municipality, 1 March 2006 |
| 21. |
100 Years since the Hidden Question, Yad Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem, 26 March 2006 |
| 22. |
Online Journalism in Israel, Oranim College, 14 May 2006 |
| 23. |
70 Years to the Arab Revolt 1936-1939, Sdeh Boker College in the Negev, 16-17 May 2006 |
| 24. |
Conference of the Galilee Research, Tel-Hai College, 28-29 June 2006 |
Presentations at International Conferences
| 1. |
International Conference on Conversion of the International Medieval Institute of Leeds University, Leeds, 17-21 July |
| 2. |
Visions and Divisions, The Association for Israel Studies, 1-14 May 2001, American University, Washington D.C. |
| 3. |
The Association for Israel Studies, The Eighteenth Annual Meeting, 26-28 May 2002, Vail, Colorado |
| 4. |
First World Congress of Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Mainz, 9-13 September |
| 5. |
Hierarchy and Power, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 17-21 June 2004 |
| 6. |
The Second Joint International Conference on Language and Linguistics, The University of Oxford College of Continuing Education and The American University in Cairo, Cairo, 24-25 March 2006 |
| 7. |
Narrating the Nile - Cultures, Identities, Memories, International Workshop, Tel-Aviv University and The Open University of Israel, 29-31 May 2006 |
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