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I live in the West of my East. I dream Hebrew, I speak Arabic. I was born in Bagdhad and grew up in Jerusalem. I moved to Tel Aviv, studied at The Hebrew University, Harvard and Yale and traveled to Amman, Gaza and the West Bank.

My teaching, research and consulting reflects my understanding of the Middle East realities. It based on perceptions of shifting boundaries rather than static boundaries, by multiple identities and fluid loyalties rather than single identities and fixed loyalties.

My divorce from the rigidity of an "all or nothing" perceptions has enabled me to balance between the poetry of visions and ideologies and the prose of Middle East tragic landscape. My research and engagement in policy processes and design has taught me that in the Middle East many leaders and governments do not see themselves solving deep conflicts and bitter disputes as much as transforming them.




Shaul Mishal, Ph.D.
Department of Political Science
Faculty of Social Science
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
Fax: +972.3.640.9276
Email: mishal@post.tau.ac.il
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Career Brief

Shaul Mishal is a Professor of Political Science at Tel Aviv University. Serves as senior advisor to the Department of Political Planning at the Israeli Foreign Ministry and to the Ministry of Defense. Founded and directed the Center for Israeli Arab Studies. Authored and co-authored 5 books and numerous articles in subjects related to Arab and Islamic political cultures and Palestinian politics. Visiting Professor at Yale University, visiting Scholar at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard and Senior Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health. Received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and completed post-Doctoral studies at Yale University.

Professional Experience
2006-08 Yale University Yale Center for International and Area Studies Visiting Professor in Middle Eastern Studies
2004-05 Tel Aviv University Political Science Professor
1995-96 Harvard University School of Public Health Fellow
1993-94 Yale University Political Science Visiting Professor
1992-96 Institute for Israeli Arab Studies   Head of Institute
1991 Tel Aviv University Political Science Assiciate Professor
1989-90 Yale University Political Science Visiting Professor
1986-87 Harvard University The Center for International Affairs Visiting Scholar
1982-90 Tel Aviv University Political Science Senior Lecturer
1981-82 Yale University Political Science Research Fellow
1978-82 Tel Aviv University Political Science Lecturer
1976-77 Tel Aviv University Political Science Research Fellow
Academic and Professional Meetings
2007 Hamas and the Future of the Israel-Palestinian Dispute, The Middle East Seminar, MacMillan Center, Yale University
2004 Annual Meeting of the Peace Science Society, Houston, Texas
2004 Central Institute for Technology, Virginia
2003 Gilman Conference on New Directions in International Relations, Yale University
2000 The International Programs Center for Conflict Resolution, University of Oklahoma, Haifa
1998 The Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, Amman
1997 International Conference of the Morris E. Curiel Center for International Studies
1995 The Takmi Program Seminar on Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health
1994 The American Political Science Association
1994 The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace
1993 Concilium on International and Area Studies, Yale University
1990 The Political Science Department Seminar, Yale University
1989 The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, The Annual Seminar, Tel Aviv University
1989 The Israeli Political Science Association, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1986 The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
1981 The Conflict Resolution Seminar, Yale University
1981 Concilium on International and Area Studis, Yale University
Qualifications
B.A The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Political Science and Sociology 1968
M.A The Hebrew University Political Science and Public Policy 1971
Ph.D The Hebrew University Political Science 1976
Principal Publications
Books
The Palestinian Hamas: Vision, Violence and Coexistance (with A. Sela)
Columbia University Press, First Edition 2000, Second Edition 2006.
Also published as:
The Hamas Wind - Violence and Coexistance
Yediot Ahronot Books, First Edition 1999, Second Edition 2006 (Hebrew).
Investment in Peace: The Politics of Economic Cooperation Between Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinians (with R. Kuperman, D. Boas)
Sussex Academic Press, 2001.
Speaking Stones: Communiques from the Intifada Underground (with R. Aharoni)
Syracuse University Press, 1994.
Also published as:
Speaking Stones: The Words Behind the Palestinian Intifada
Hakibbutz Hameuhad, 1989 (Hebrew).
The PLO Under Arafat: Between Gun and Olive Branch
Yale University Press, 1986.
West Bank, East Bank: The Palestinians in Jordan, 1949-1967
Yale University Press, 1978.
Selected Articles
" Al Qaeda as Dune Organization toward a Typology of Islamic Terrorism Organization" (with M. Rosenthal).
Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Vol.28, No.4, 2005, pp.275-293.
" What Happened to Suicide Bombing in Israel: Insight from a Terror Stock Model" (with E. Kaplan, A. Mintz, C. Samban).
Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Vol.28, No.3, 2005, pp.225-235.
" The Pragmatic Dimension of the Palestinian Hamas: A Network Perspective"
Armed Forces and Society, Vol.29, No.4, 2003, pp.569-589.
" Political Expectations and Cultural Perceptions in the Arab-Israeli Peace Negotiations" (with N. Morag).
Political Psychology, Vol.23, No.2, 2002, pp.325-353.
" Participation Without Presence: Hamas, the PA and the Politics of Negotiated Coexistance" (with A. Sela).
Middle Eastern Studies, Vol.38, 2002, pp.1-26.
" The Network State: Triangular Relations in Middle Eastern Politics" (with I. Talmud).
International Journal of Contemporary Sociology, Vol.37, No.2, 2000, pp.175-197.
" Trust or Contract? Negotiating Formal and Informal Agreements in the Arab-Israeli Peace Process" (with N. Morag).
International Negotiation, No.5, 2000, pp.523-542.
"Intifada Discourse: The Hamas and UNL Leaflets"
The PLO and Israel, Avraham Sela and Moshe Ma´oz (eds.), St. Martin´s Press, 1997.
" Israel and the PLO: A Game with Different Information" (with D. Schmiedler, I. Sened).
Game Theory and Applications, T. Ichiishi, A. Neyman, Y. Touman (eds.), Academic Press, 1990.
"The Unfolding of the Intifada"
Survey of Jewish Affairs 1990, William Frankel (ed.), Basil Blackwell, 1990, pp.3-23.
" Paper War - Words Behind Stones: The Intifada Leaflets"
The Jerusalem Quarterly, No.51, 1989, pp.71-94.
" Coalition Formation in the Arab World: An Analytical Perspective" (with A. Diskin)
International Interactions, Vol.11, 1984, pp.43-59.
" Palestinian Voting in the West Bank: Electoral Behavior in a Traditional Community Without Sovereignty" (with A. Diskin).
The Journal of Politics, Vo.44, 1982, pp.538-58.
" Nationalism through Localism: Some Observations on the West Bank Political Elite"
The Middle Eastern Studies, Vol.17, 1981, pp.478-91.
" Spatial Models and Centrality of Internatonal Communities: Meetings Between Arab Leaders, 1966-1978" (with A. Diskin)
The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol.25, 1981, pp.655-75.
Editorship
Arabs in Israel, A Montly Newsletter Editor-in-Chief
Blue-Green, Book Series (Hebrew) Editor-in-Chief
Studies in Arab-Jewish Reality, Book Series (Hebrew) Editor-in-Chief
Society, Politics and Culture, Yedioth Ahronoth Book Series (Hebrew) Editor-in-Chief
Grants, Fellowship and Prizes
2007-08 The Shiite Leadership of Iran, Iraq and Lebanon: Vision, Space and Strategies
2005 Palestinian Suicide Bombers
Homeland Security Center of Excellence for Behavioral and Social Research on Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
2005 Political Discourse of Uprooting: The case of Gush Katif
The Floersheimer Institute for Policy Studies
2004 Al-Qaeda as a Dune Organization: A New Perception in a Comparative Perspective
Israel Science Foundation
2004 Al-Qaeda and the Middle East Islamic Terrorism: Comparative Analysis and Policy Implications
The Tami Steinetz Center for PEace Research
2000 Cooperative Networks of Arabs and Jews in the Context of Economic Business Enterpreneurship
Netherlands-Israel Development Research Program
1997 Economic Enterpreneurship in an Era of Peace
The Chaim Herzog Center for Middle East Studies and Diplomacy
1995 Takemi Fellowship in International Health
1995 Hamas: A Behavioral Profile
The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research
1990 Dayan Research Fellowship
1989 The Political and Social Dimension of the Intifada Leaflets
David Horowitz Institute for Research on Developing Countries
1986 The Image of the Arab in Hebrew and Translated Literature as Thaught in the Israeli High School
The Ford Foundation
1983 Tel Aviv University Research Project on Peace
1975 Lady Davis Trust
Membership in Political Societies, Scientific Boards and Committees
The American Political Science Asociation
The Foreign Policy Decision Making at Texas A&M
The International Advisoty Board
The Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies
The International Center for Peace in the Middle East
The Israeli Ministry of Economics and Planning
The Israeli Political Science Association
The Israel Sociological Society
The Israel Oriental Society
The Middle East Studies Association
David Horowitz Institute
The Lavon Institute for Labor Research
The Institute for Israeli Arab Srudies
Lectures
Tactical Prevention of Suicide Bombings in Israel
Annual Meeting of the Peace Science Society, Houston, Texas
November 2004
Patterns of Israeli Enterpreneurship with Egypt and Jordan
Central Institute for Technology, Virginia
October 2004
Explaining Arafat and Sharon´s Policy Options During the Second Intifada
Gilman Conference on New Directions in International Relations, Yale University
February 2003
What Went Wrong in Camp David 2000?
St. Antony´s College, Oxford University
March 2002
Conflicts and Tacit Inderstandings: Hamas and Israel
The International Programs Center, University of Oklahoma, Haifa
April 2000
How Hamas Thinks
Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, Amman
October 1998
Trust vs. Contract: Reflections on the Arab-Israeli Peace Negotiations
The Israeli Studoes Association, Rutgers University
June 1998
The Network State
The Israeli Sociological Society, University of Haifa
February 1998
The Bureaucratic Culture of Islamic Movements: The Case of the Palestinian Hamas
Center for the International Studies, MIT
February 1997
Beyond Boundaries in Policy-Making
The Takemi Program in International Health, Harvard
December 1995
The Intifada Discourse: HAmas and UNL Leaflets
The Truman Institute International Conference on Israel and the PLO
April 1994
The Crisis in the Persian Gulf and the Future of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
The Political Science Seminar, Yale University
November 1990
The Palestinian Intifada: Some Socio-Political Observations
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
September 1986
Coalition Formation in the Arab World: An Analytical Perspective
The Concilium on International and Area Studies, Yale University
December 1981
Palestinians from the Jordanian and Israeli Time Perspective
The Joint Political Studies Committee, Yale University
April 1976