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Curriculum Vitae

Abdelwahab Hechiche

University of South Florida Government and International Affairs 4202 East Fowler Avenue, Soc 107

Tampa, Florida 33620-8100 Telephone: (813) 974-2249 email: [email protected]

Education: 1971 Doctorat de Troisième Cycle, VI Section of Economic and Social Sciences

Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes-Sorbonne Nouvelle La Question Palestinienne et les Relations Israélo-Jordaniennes.

1969 Diplôme de l’Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales (International Law)

L’ONU et la Coopération Internationale dans l’Espace Extra-Atmosphérique. Faculty of Law, University of Paris. Post graduate degree.

1966 Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures (English Literature) Order and Liberty in the

Political Thought of Milton. Sorbonne, Paris. Post graduate degree. 1962-63 One-Year Cycle in Business and Management for Sorbonne students/Summer

Training with La Compagnie Transatlantique. 1962 M.A. in English and American Literatures and Civilizations with certification to

teach English, University of Paris-Sorbonne. 1959 Certificat d’Etudes Littéraires Générales: Institut des Hautes Etudes:

Tunis-Sorbonne. 1957-58 French Baccalauréat: Premiére et Deuxiéme Partie, Lycée Carnot, Tunis. 1957 First Prize in French Literature: Lycée Carnot, Tunis. Selected to compete in

the “Concours Général.

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Employment: 1993- present Professor: Department of Government and International Affairs, USF 1988-92 Host, “World Forum” show, WUSF-TV Channel 16, Tampa, Florida. 1970-93 Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor in International Studies,

Department of Government and International Affairs, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida.

1962-70 English Professor, Academy of Paris. 1962-63 O.R.T.F, French Television/Journal Télévisé, Centre Cognac Jay, Paris. Honors: 2013 Selected by USF Honor Society for International Studies Sigma Iota Rho to be recognized with an award of lifetime honorary membership. The induction ceremony was held on Friday, September 27. 2013 Invited to join the Advisory Council of the Center for Catholic-Jewish Studies of the University of Saint Leo, in Florida. I have accepted the invitation 2013 Invited by the World Justice Project to contribute to the World Justice Project’s

Rule of Law Index 2013-1014. 2013 My C.V was requested for potential collaboration with the Institute for Peace &

Justice, University of San Diego 2012 Spring Semester. I will be invited as an Associate at the Center for Migrations of the French Institute of International Relations (ISRI) 2011 Nov 3-6. ASMEA (Association for the Studies of the Middle East and Africa. Washington, DC 2011 April. A presentation to CENCOM, MacDill AFB, The Arab Spring: The Case of Tunisa 2010: May. Invited by the Tampa Bay Turkish Cultural Center to participate in an educational trip to many regions of Turkey.


2010: July. Invited by Oxford Round Table to present a paper on international terrorism. 2010: Spring and Fall Semesters. I took a Turkish course at the Tampa Bay Turkish Cultural Center. 2009: December. Invited by the Fondation du la Vocation whose guest of honor was

President Nichola Sarkozy. 2009: Due to a surgery in October 2008, I had to abstain from some national and

international travels. Invited by the Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education for the July 2009 conference on “Tunisian Competencies” overseas.

2008: Invited by the Osservatorio Del Mediterraneao to participate in a World Peace

Conference in Palermo, Italy, where I presented the following paper: Le Processus de Paix Israelo-Palestinienet les Elections Presidentielles Americaines: De Bush a Bush. Sepetember 18-21.

2006-07 As a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Algiers, Algeria, during the academic

year 2006-2007, I participated in several international conference in Algeria and in Tunisia. While in Algeria I undertook research for a book manuscript France and the Arab-Islamic World in Euro-American Relations.

2006: I came back to Tampa from Algeria to present a paper on Sovereign Immunity

and the Pinochet Case, USF ISLAC, September. 2006: Participated in the Second International Congress “Imams and Rabbis for

Peace,” in Sevilla, Spain, March 2004-05 Fulbright Award for Algeria. Declined because of USF teaching needs. 2002 Invited to contribute to “Le Livre International de la Paix” (The Book of Peace)

presented at the “Memorial de Caen”, Normandy, France.

Invited to participate in the inauguration of the “Memorial de Caen” and in the Colloquium on World Issues with Heads of States and distinguished international scholars held in October.

Invited by the European and Tunisian Academies of Sciences, Arts, and Letters to preside one of the sessions of the Conference “The Mediterranean Serving Man, Man Serving the Mediterranean”, September, Carthage, Tunisia.


2001 Correcting our Memories and Traditions: Confronting the Passion of Religious Fundamentalism, a Special conference celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Shalom Hartman Institute, and Dr. David Hartman’s 70th Birthday, at the Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem, October 22-24.

Guest of Honor at the International Conference of the American Jewish Committee which was attended by President G. W. Bush, President V. Fox of Mexico, H. E S. Peres of Israel, and H.E J. Fisher of Germany, Washington, D.C., May 1-4.

1999 Participant in a debate “Contre L’Exclusion, Pour La Tolerance”, Soirees

France Libertés, UNESCO, Paris, November. Received by H.E. President Yaser Arafat in Tunisia as a follow up of the Good Will Peace Mission to the Middle East (Nov.-Dec.1992), March.

1992 Member of a delegation organized by the U. S. Interreligious Committee for

Peace in the Middle East to encourage the Peace Negotiations in the Middle East, Fall. The Peace Mission was encouraged and supported by former President Jimmy Carter. The delegation was hosted by Heads of State and Government.

1991 A personal invitation from H.E. Zein Al-Abidin Ben Ali,President of Tunisia, Fall.

Outstanding Teaching Award (State of Florida). Outstanding Faculty Advisor: Student Organization - Model United Nations.

1989-90 International Fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES),

Harvard University. 1983 Selected by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University for the

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar on Muslim Ethnic Minorities in the Middle East and the U.S.S.R.

1981 Selected Best Teacher of the Year, Mortar Board. 1980 Selected Best Teacher of the Year, Greek Society.

After participating in the First Model Organization of African Unity at John Hopkins University (in March 1979), the Director of the Seminars in Diplomacy, Dr. M. Nwanze, invited me to be the Secretary-General of the First Model


League of Arab States to be held at Georgetown University in March 1981 with three USF student organizations.

1979-80 Selected by the Southern Center for International Studies for the Dean Rusk

Seminar Series in World Affairs. 1979 Invited to participate, by La Fondation de La Vocation, in the 1979 ceremony

honoring the new laureates under the presidency of Valery Giscard d’Estaing, and to whom I was specially introduced for my continuing devotion to “Peace through Education.”

1966-68 Visiting Fulbright Scholar at Virginia Polytechnic Institute ( V.P.I), and at the

University of South Florida (U.S.F), selected by the Franco-American Fulbright Educational and Cultural Exchange Programme in Paris.

1966 Selected for an internship at the United Nations in New York City with the

support of the Director of the UN Office in Paris. I was assigned to the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.

1965 Laureate of the Fondation de La Vocation, Paris (for dedication to Peace in the

Middle East). Today, this foundation is called: Fondation Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet Pour La Vocation.

Teaching and Curriculum Development: a. Department of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Area Studies: North Africa, The Middle East, European Unification,The U.N. and Peace, America’s Role in the World, World Perspective.

New Courses: Islam and World Politics, International Terrorism, Human Rights vs. Divine Laws

b. Inter-Departmental Cooperation

Department of Modern Languages: I introduced the teaching of Arabic.

Department of Humanities: I helped initiate a new course on the Humanities of the Middle East (1976 and 1978).


c. Florida State University System

I assisted the Florida Committee on the exchange programs with the Middle East (Egypt and Israel). I assisted in the planning and the implementation of the Exchange Program with Université de Paris VII (since 1978). I developed a new course on Human Rights for GIA in 1998-99.

Professional Projects in International Education: 2012 From the Arab Spring to the Islamic Spring: Or how to build “a democracy without democrats.” Instituto De Estudos Economicos e Internacionais

O Instituto Nacional de Ciencia e Tecnologia, University of Sao Paulo, March. 2007 I was invited by Global Ethics to participate in a conference on the Preservation

of Sacred Spaces at the United Nations, New York, in preparation of the U.S. Peace Initiative Conference at Annapolis, MD, November.

In November 2007 I also was invited to participate in a world conference on Peace and Higher Education hosted by the Pro-Digitate Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal.

2006 In March I was invited by OECD (Organization of Economic Cooperation and

Development) to be one of the Rapporteurs of the First Global Forum on Higher Education hosted by the Ministry of Higher Education of Chile, Santiago, Chile, March.

1992-02 Strong commitment and participation in interfaith dialogue conferences in the

US and overseas 2001 Invited to participate in the first Florida State University System workshop on

the establishment of a European Union Studies Center to be headquartered at the University of Florida, in Gainesville. I am one of four USF faculty liaison group with the EU Studies Center.

1975-82 Chairman, Committee on International Education of the South Florida

Educational Planning Council.


I planned, organized and conducted, as co-director and director, seven consecutive Summer Seminars for Teachers. In this framework, I was invited by the Office of Higher Education of the State of Florida to select a delegation of educators to attend a seminar in Egypt. Another group of teachers were sent to Nigeria with a NSF grant acquired by the Afro-American Studies Program at USF then chaired by Dr. Festus Ohaegbulam. I assisted the Center for African Studies of the University of Florida to develop a summer seminar for teachers by co-sponsoring the 1977 Seminar on Africa in Tampa.

1975-82 Helped organize two Florida Regional Seminars on Africa with Florida State

University and the University of Florida (1974 and 1976).

I initiated the planning and organization of the 1977 Seminar on Arab Women, with the assistance of Dr. Nuha Abu Dhabbah, from Washington, D.C.

Invited to several orientation programs for Hillsborough county teachers in cross-cultural education with the specific goal of correcting or reassessing cultural perceptions in existing materials dealing with non-Western civilizations.

1982-83 Planning of a world conference on The New Information Order and

International Violence with the help of UNESCO and some U.S. agencies. This project was meant to contribute to the inauguration of the USF International Center for the Study of Violence.

Service: University of South Florida

• Faculty Advisory Committee

• College Council on Undergraduate Studies - 1970-1974

• Advisor to the World Affairs Council/MUN - 1970-1980

• Advisor to the USF Iranian Club-1972-1978

• Committee on International Programs - 1970-1975

• Committee on Committees, Faculty Senate – 1980

• Advisor to the USF Fencing Club (1996-2000)

• Advisor to the new USF MUN (2000-present)

• I assisted the Honors College Office of International Awards to review several Fulbright

Scholarships Applications. The review was completed on time.


• I assisted Associate Provost Mari Crummet in assessing the risks for USF students

planning to study in the Middle East (Palestine/Israel/Jordan)

• Fall 2013: Invited by the Dean’s Office to be on the University Distinguished Professor

Award Committee.

Professional Organizations (past and present):

• “Corresponding Member”, European Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.

• Founding member of the USF Foreign Forum.

• Founding member of the International Cultural and Economic Center of Tampa.

• Resource person to religious and professional organizations of the community.

• Member of the United Faculty of Florida Bargaining Team - 1991-1992.

• Member of the Presidential Committee on the Year of Discovery.

• The Maghreb Studies Association

• The Mediterranean Studies Association

• Middle East Institute.

• Middle East Studies Association.

• International Studies Association.

• American Professors for Peace in the Middle East.

• Arab-American University Graduates.

• Association des Etudes Internationales (Tunis)

• ASMEA (Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa)

• Association of Maghreb Studies formerly Maghreb Review (London).

• Université Itinerante Euro-Arabe (Paris-Rome).

Scholarly Activities: Conferences, Seminars, Symposia: 2013 Presented a paper at the June 2013 Maghreb Studies Association Conference:

“The Axis Paris-London-Washington and the Mediterranean: From Suez to Benghazi 1956-2013” Mansfield College, Oxford. The paper will be peer reviewed for publication.

Invited to be a Guest Editor for the Fall 2013 American Journal of Middle Eastern

Studies (AJMES) issue.


Paper selected for presentation at the November 2013 ASMEA (Association for Middle Eastern and African Studies) in Washington, D. C: The Jasmine Revolution Between Secularism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Case of Tunisia and The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

2012 Preparation to conduct a Seminar and present a paper at the University of Sao

Paulo, Brazil on the Arab Spring 2012 invited to chair and be a discussant for a panel of the October 2012 ASMEA Conference (Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa) in Virginia: “Domestic Politics and Foreign Relations in the Middle East.” 2006-7 Participated in several international conferences in Tunisia and Algeria. 2006 Imans and Rabbis for Peace, Seville, Spain, March, Foundation Hommes de

Parole.

Le Mouvement National Tunisien et les défis de l’Indépendance, Advanced Institute of the History of National Movement, Tunis, Tunisia, May.

2005 Co-Chairman of Second Plenary Session of the First World Congress “Imams and

Rabbis for Peace”, Brussels, Belgium, January 3-6. 2004 “Religion in Politics and Politics in Religion”, Florida-Israel Institute and

Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, January 20. 2003 Invited to present the book “What Jews Should Know About Islam and

Muslims: Remembering A Common Heritage” at the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Annual Conference: “Beyond the Pale: Sin and Exclusion”, Jerusalem, January.

“Ethique, Information et Diplomatie: Le Cas Des Nouveaux Malentendus Transatlantiques”, European Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, Paris, September 25-27.

“Euro-American Relations, The UN, and the Iraqi Crisis”, UNA-USA, ST Petersburg, Florida, October.


2002 “Some Perspectives on Interfaith Dialogue”, The Franciscan Center, Tampa, Florida, March

Participation in the Conference “Spiritual Encounters with God”, Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem, April.

Presentation of a paper “Le Dialogue des Civilisations au Service de la Méditerranée”, European and Tunisian Academies of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, Carthage, Tunisia, September.

Colloquium on World Issues: “The US Between Alliances and Empire” with the participation of world leaders and scholars, for the inauguration of the “Memorial de Cen”, in Normandy, France, October Invited to chair a panel “Media and Politics” at the Middle East Studies Association 2002 International Conference, Washington, D.C, November.

2001 Ethnie, Culture, Religion et Interculturalité: Impératifs ou Défis pour une

Education Mondiale, co-sponsored by the World Organization of Human Rights and the European Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, International Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Trieste, Italy, September 19-22.

Ethnicity, Religion, and National Identity in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, guest speaker of the Eminent Scholars Lecture Series, hosted by the Center for Judaic and Near Eastern Studies and Florida International University, April.

2000 Pour Une Nouvelle Morale Internationale: Les Sciences et les Arts Au

Service de la Paix?, Conférence sur la Technologie, les Sciences, les Arts et la Paix, Académie Européenne des Sciences, des Arts, et des Lettres, Conference held at the Royal Academy of Belgium, Brussels, September.

A Response to Dr. David Hartman’s book: Israelis and The Jewish Tradition: An Ancient People Debating Its Future, Yale University Press, 2000, Conference on Sacred Time at the Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem, February.

1999 Special Guest of the Fondation de la Vocation for the Awards Ceremony under

the presidency of H. E Jacques Chirac

Religion, Politics, and Mediation in North Africa: Tunisia, Conference on Religion and Politics, Instruments of Conflicts and Instruments of Mediation, at the Evangelische Akademie, Loccum, Germany, November 17-19.


The Interfaith Journey: From Vatican II to the Dawn of the New Millennium, The Jack and Florence Gelman Lectures Series, Niagara University, October 17.

1999 “Jewish-Muslim Relations: Challenges and Opportunities”, American Jewish

Committee Conference, May 4-8, Washington, D.C., 6th International Leadership Conference with participation of President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, and H.E. Madeline Albright, Secretary of State.

“The US-Iraqi Crisis: Between UN Diplomacy and US Force”, Guest speaker for the League of Women Voters and the UN Association of Pinellas County, Sarasota, Florida, March 22.

“Keeping the Faith: Jewish-Muslim Relations Yesterday and Tomorrow”, a preliminary presentation in connection with the announcement of a research project leading to the publication of two books on Jewish-Muslim relations to be produced by Dr. Reuven Firestone and Dr. Abdelwahab Hechiche, under the sponsorship of the Heilbrunn Institute of Interreligious Affairs, February 11.

1998 Participant in the US Interreligious Conference in Support of the Middle East

Peace Process, with letters of support from former President Jimmy Carter, and President Bill Clinton, Washington, D.C., November.

1997 Selected by the US Interreligious Committee for Peace in the Middle East to

be a member of the delegation visiting the US Congress and the Department of State to discuss the “Peace Process” in the Middle East with H.E.D. Ross.

1997 One of the three guest speakers at the Interfaith Conference on the Middle East

at Temple Beth El of Boca Raton, Florida.

Participant in the 1997 Board of Directors Conference of the US Interreligious Committee for Peace in the Middle East, Washington, D.C.

Presented a paper “Bab-El Bhar: Porte, Mur ou Fenetre? Ou Tunis entre Geopolitique et Voyeurisme”, International Colloquium honoring the selection of Tunis as the 1997 Cultural Capital by UNESCO. Chaired a panel at the same colloquium.

1996 Participated in a conference on “Religious Revival and Political Ideology”, St.

Mary’s University College, Twickenham, England, September 6-8.

Participated in the Conference “Aid and Development”, Tunis, Tunisia, April.


1996 Participant in the Inter-Faith Conference: A Trialogue between Jews,

Christians, and Muslims, St. Petersburg, Florida, April.

Participated in the Conference on Peace and Education, UNESCO, Paris, March 6.

Presented a paper on Arab-Israeli Reconciliation, at the French Parliament (Assemblée Nationale), March 7.

Participated in the Seminar on Political Islam and Policy Implications, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., February 26. “Islam: From the Heart and the Mind of a Believer”, three lectures to Pine Shore Church (Adult Education Program), Sarasota, Florida, January.

1995 Chair of a panel for the Conference on MAGHREB ET MEDITERRANÉE,

co-sponsored by the Maghreb Review and the Sorbonne University, September- October.

Rapporteur for the Seminar on “Femmes, Développement, Environnement”, Gammarth, Tunisia, April.

Chaired two panels of Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations in the U.S.A. for the Inter-Faith Convocation, Interfaith Conference, Northshore Congregation Israel, Northshore, Illinois, March. “Islamic Resurgence and the Future of Jewish-Arab Muslim Relations”, Temple Beth Israel, Longboat Key, Florida, February 15.

1994 Participant in the Middle East Institute Conference: “Changing Perspectives In the Middle East”, National Press Club, Washington, D.C., October. Rapporteur of the Seminar on “Women, Development and the Environment”, organized by the Association de Development et de Protection de 1’ Environnement de La Marsa, with the collaboration of the Tunisian Government, the A.N.P.E, and the Fondation Friedrich Naumann, Gammarth, Tunisia.

Keynote guest speaker of Northshore Congregation Israel: “For A Jewish-Muslim dialogue: The American Dimension”, Northshore, a suburb of Chicago.


1993 Honored by Agudath Sholom, Samford, Ct. Special guest of Rabbi and Mrs. J. Ehrenkranz.

1993 Invited to join the Board of Directors of the U.S. Interreligious Committee for

Peace in the Middle East. Member of the Delegation visiting the White House.

“Israelism and Palestinianism: From Mutual Denial to Mutual Recognition” Rabbinic Cabinet Conference UAJ, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, December.

Chaired panel “Jerusalem: Toward A Reconciliatory Solution”, National Interfaith Convocation To Celebrate and Build Peace In The Middle East, Washington, D.C. November 9-10.

Invited to the 1993 Session of the Euro-Arab Itinerant University, University of Marmara, Istanbul, Turkey. Selected to be a member of the Scientific Committee of the Euro-Arab University, April.

“Judeo-Arab-Islamic Relations Between Divine Law and Human Rights” Euro-Arab University 1993 Session, hosted by the University of Marmara, Istanbul, Turkey, April.

“Decolonization and North African Jews: The Problématique of their Integration In Israel” at the Maghreb Review Annual Conference on Decolonization, The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, July.

1990 Attended and participated in the International Conference on “Technology and

Social Change”, Tunis, Tunisia.

Presentation of paper “American Values and their Impact on the Teaching of the Middle East”, Fellows Colloquium, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, April-May.

1989 Main speaker of a Conference on Tunisia, Africa Centre, London England.

February. 1988 Presentation of a paper on “The Notion of International Crisis in

Libyan-Tunisian Relations: The Case of the 1985 Crisis” The Maghreb Review Conference, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris, France.

I represented USF at the Conference on the Education and the United Nations, New York, N.Y. I was also an advisor to a USF Students’ Delegation.


1998 Participation in an international seminar on “Political Violence” in Dubrovnik,

Yugoslavia. 1987 A Conference on Lebanon co-sponsored by the Lebanese Studies Institute/Tufts

University/The Fletcher School Of Law and Diplomacy/Harvard University, Medford, MA, Fall.

Seminar on Methodology and Articulation in Research on North Africa. American Institute of Maghribi Studies, US Legation, Tangiers, Morocco, Spring.

Invited to the Second Summer Session of the Euro-Arab University, Malta where I presented a paper on Middle Eastern Studies in the United States.

1986 Research Grant regarding North Africa at the Center of African Studies,

University of Florida.

Panelist “The Maghreb”, Middle Eastern Studies Association, New Orleans, November.

1985 I presented a paper: “The Invasion of Lebanon and the New Regiopolitics of

the Middle East”, Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas. 1984 I represented USF at the Global Conference on International Education where

I participated in a teleconference with Hawaii, May.

“Palestinian National Identity and Pan-Arabism,” Florida Political Science Association, Winter Park, Florida, April. “North African Jews and Their Potential Role in Arab-Israeli Relations,” Panel on Ethno-nationalism in the Middle East, International Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia, March.

1983 Visiting Professor at the Institut Charles V, Université de Paris VII. Winter Semester.

I was invited by Professor D. Chevallier, Chair of the Department of Islamology to participate in the “Centenaire” of Ernest Renan’s Lecture on Islam and Science, Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Université de Paris IV.


Selected by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies for the 1983 Summer NEH Grant, Harvard University.

1983 “L’Opinion Publique Américaine et La Question Palestienne,” Seminar on Third World Affairs, University of Saint-Etienne, France, May 9. 1983 “The U.S. Connection and Tunisian Nationalism: Strategy and Tactics,”

International Colloquium on World War II and the Campaign of Tunisia, Tunis, October.

1982 “North Africa and the Middle East Conflicts: The Role of Militant Libya,”

International Studies Association Convention, Cincinnati, Ohio, March.

Participation in an international colloquium: “The Palestine Question,” The Southern Center for International Studies, Atlanta, Georgia, April 22-23.

I chaired a panel on “The Unity of the Maghrib,” Maghrib Studies Association Conference, London, June 25-26.

Invited by the I.F.R.I. (Institut Français des Relations Internationales) for Dr. Issam Sartawi’s lecture and press conference: “The PLO and the Future of the Palestinians.” Dr. Sartawi was appearing as the spokesman of the PLO when the latter was under siege in Beirut. Paris, July 13.

1980 “Self-Determination and the Palestinians,” International Law Section of ISA, ISA

Convention, Los Angeles, California, March.

“The Palestinians in the New Middle East Context,” The Middle East Club, Tampa, Florida, April.

“Iran and Afghanistan: The Soviet Challenge,” Five Lectures to five Committees of the Council on Foreign Relations in the Southeast as a guest speaker of the Council on Foreign Relations, New York, N.Y. Foreign Relations, New York. Tennessee/Kentucky/Georgia/Alabama/Florida,

The Annenberg School of Communications invited me to participate in the World Conference on Communications held at the ASC, Philadelphia, in May. I was a recipient of a grant. Among the sponsors: UNESCO and the U.S. International Communication Agency.


1980 “The Iraqi-Iranian War,” a dialogue with Professor C. Hudson, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies Georgetown University, organized by WPLP Radio, October 15.

“The United Nations in Transition,” (a contribution to U.N. Day), Women Club, Temple Terrace, Florida, October 22.

Participant in The Southeastern Dialogue on the World Changing Economy. An international conference held in Atlanta, Georgia, October.

1979 “Islam: A Force of Progress or Decline?” United Nations Association,

Sarasota Florida, April.

“Israel Under the Begin Era.” Conference organized by the Baltimore Hebrew College, Baltimore, Maryland, April.

Selected by the Southern Center for International Studies, Atlanta, to participate in the 1979-80 Seminar on World Issues under the chairmanship of Professor Dean Rusk. This seminar was held monthly, October through May. Selected to be a respondent to Dr. Joseph. Sisco, former Assistant Secretary of State for Middle Eastern Affairs, December 5.

1978 “Islamic Education in the West,” paper, Conference on Islam, a non-Islamic

Environment, M.S.A. of North America, Florida, May, “Islam and Muslim Life in Western Society,” moderator.

Intensive participation in the Speech Communication Association Summer Conference in International Intercultural Communication, USF.

1977 “A Report on the North-South Dialogue Conference: The Role of the

Common Market,” International Economic and Cultural Center, Tampa, Florida, October.

“The European Economic Community and the Maghrib,” Colloquium on the EEC and the Third World, organized by the Center for Political and Legal Studies of the Third World, University of Pantheon-Sorbonne and held at UNESCO headquarters, Paris, September. Invited by Professor E. Jouve.

1976 “The Neo-Destour Party and the Development Process in Tunisia,”

Arab-American University Graduates (AAUG), New York, October.


“Development in North Africa,” Chair of the panel, AAUG Convention, New York. 1976 “International Energy and Capital Exchange Between Producers and

Consumers,” Discussant, Midwest Political Science Association Convention, Chicago, Illinois, April.

“Franco-Algerian Reconciliation; Form Napoleon III to Gaullist France,” International Studies Associates (ISA), Toronto, Canada, February.

1974 I conducted some research at the EEC about regional EEC-Maghreb Relations

and Regional Integration in North Africa. I was assisted by the EEC Commission.

Research in Progress I conducted a partial research for a book at the Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France. Since then, I have been officially invited to their important conferences/seminars as a Fellow researcher. I conducted a brief research in Tunisia on the recent and disturbing developments of the Arab Spring: I was trying to verify my own assessment of the revolution presented in Brazil and in my paper. I began my research for a paper to be presented at Oxford next summer: “The Axis Paris-London-Washington and the Mediterranean: From Suez to Benghazi via Tunis 1956-2012.The paper has been submitted to the Maghreb Review, London, for publication before the deadline of October 2013. I have reached an agreement “in principle” with Publisud Editions, in Paris, for two book length publication projects. Publications: Unpublished: a. Militant Libya: A New Challenge to US Supremacy in the Middle East and North

Africa. b. North African Jews and the Middle East Conflict: Ethnonationalism in the Middle

East. c. Soleil des Antipodes, Melanges offerts a Shams Nadir, Editeurs, L’or du Temps et

L’ Harmattan. The book is a collective work.


d. Sacred Time in Jewish Memory Between Tradition and Rationalism: A Comparative Analysis of Yehuda Halevi and Moses Maimonides in David Hartman’s: “Israelis and the Jewish Tradition: An Ancient People Debating Its Future”, for the Shalom Hartman Institute Conference on Sacred Time in Jerusalem.

Published and to be published: Books:

Pour Une Nouvelle Morale Internationale: Les Sciences et les Arts au Service de la Paix?, Publisud, Paris, April 2005

Le Livre International de La Paix, a collection of messages of peace from world leaders in politics, science, religion, arts, and education, October 2002.

What Jews Should Know About Islam: Rediscovering a Common Heritage, Publisud, Paris, (Published, Spring 2002.) Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Islam for Jews, The Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Institute for International Interreligious Understanding of the American Jewish Committee, in association with Ktav Publishing House, INC, Spring 2001 (co-author).

L’Autodétermination Palestinienne Entre Le Droit Et La Force: Face aux obstacles americano-israeliens. Publisud, Paris (Fall 1991).

Chapters:

“The U.S. Connection and Tunisian Nationalism: Strategy and Tactics” in Actes du Colloque International de Tunis sur La Campagne de Tunisie (International Colloquium on WWII and the Campaign of Tunisia) Ministry of Defense of Tunisia, Fall 1983. Member of the US delegation. “Judeo-Arab Fraternity Rediscovered: A Categorical Imperative for the Twenty-First Century”, in Shalom/Salam: A Resource for Jewish-Muslim Dialogue, Gary M. Bretton-Granatoor and Andrea L. Weiss, Editors, UAHC Press, New York, N.Y., Spring 1993. “Bab Al-Bhar: Mur, Porte, ou Fenêtre? Ou Tunis entre Géopolitique et Voyeurisme”, in Proceedings of the International Colloquium “Tunis, Cite de la Mer”, in print Spring 1999.


Articles:

A recent e-mail from Professor Luis Fernando Ayerbe of the University of Sao Paulo confirmed that the article we sent him last year was a refereed article published in its English version. He also informed me that the same article was translated into Portuguese and published in Politica Externa -the equivalent periodical of Foreign Affairs- under the title: Da Primavera Arabe a Primavera Islamica? Ou como construir uma democracia sem democratas. Politica Externa, Vol.21, Jun/Jul/Ago 2012. ISSN 1518-6660, http://www.ieei-unesp.com.br/portal/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ENSAIO-DO-IEEI-12.pdf` “La tolerance, imperatif categorique pour le XXIeme siècle ou la Tolerance entre Droits de l’Homme et Droit Divin a l’age de la mondialisation” (Tolerance, a categorical imperative for the 21st Century or Tolerance Between Human Rights and Divine Law in the Age of Globalization”, a contribution to a special homage to Andre Chouraqui: De Ain-Temeouchent a Jerusalem, in PERSPECTIVES, Revue de l’Universite Hebraique de Jerusalem, The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, No. 15, 2008.

Publication of my contribution to the USF ISLAC Conference on Sovereign Immunity of September 2006.

Submission of “Le Mouvement National Tunisien et les défis de l’Indépendance,” To be published by the Advanced Institute of the History of National Movement, Tunis, Tunisia.

“Ensemble: Croyances et Incroyance” to be published by the Musee National des Granges de Port-Royal des Champs and the Ministry of Culture of France (2005-2006)

“Information et Diplomatie: Le Cas des Nouveaux Malentendus Transatlantiques”, in State and Society, Poland, in print 2005.

“Ethical and Moral Dimensions in Higher Education”, published by UNESCO-CEPES (European Center for Higher Education), Bucharest, 2005.

“Religion, Politics, and Mediation in North Africa: Tunisia”, and “Patterns of Coexistence: Nordafrika,” in Politik mit der Religion: Instrumente des Konflikts, Instrumente zur Mediation, in Loccumer Protokolle 65/99, 2001, Germany.

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Stosunki Zyzwania i mozliwossci: Wczoraj ijutro, in Midrasz, Listopad, 1999, Warsaw, Poland. “Tolerance in Arab-Islamic-Jewish Relations: Between Divine Law and Human Rights”, submitted to Etudes Internationales, a trilingual periodical, Tunis, Spring 1998.

“Renaissance et Déclin de la Résistance Palestinienne” in POLITIQUE

ETRANGERE, No. 5, 1973, Centre d’Etudes de Politique Etrangère, Paris.A

“Saudi Arabia and Israel”, The Global Review, Spring-Summer Issue 1982.

“La C.E.E. et Le Maghreb: Double Modele d’Intégration Régionale et de Coopération Nord-Sud” (The E.E.C. and the Maghreb: A Double Model of Regional Integration and of North-South Cooperation), Etudes Internationales, Tunis, Spring 1983.

“Les Etudes Arabes, Islamiques, Méditerranéennes et Inter-Culturelles aux Etats-Unis”, in Etudes Internationales, Spring 1988, Tunis, Tunisia.

“Conflict and Resolution in Libyan-Tunisian Relations”, The Maghreb Review, Summer 1990, London, England.

“Decolonization and North African Jews: Their Problématique in Israeli National Integration”, The Maghreb Review, London, (1994).

Reports:

Report of the First Global Forum on Higher Education published by OECD, 2007. Report of the Fourth Plenary Session: Quality in Education in An Open Society: What Lessons can be drawn from PISA? The Global Forum ON Education: Challenges for Education in a Global Economy, Santiago de Chile, October 24-24, 2005. To be published by OECD and the Ministry of Education of Chile.

State Plan for Global Education in Florida: Findings and Recommendations The Florida Advisory Council on Global Education, December 1981 Co-Author.


Book Reviews:

“Between War and Peace: Dilemmas for Israeli Security”, by Efraim Karsh, Cass, London, 1996, requested by the Middle East Studies Journal.

“Islam and Israel: Muslim Religious Endowments and the Jewish State” by Michael Dumper, Washington, D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1994, in The Journal of Islamic Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1, January 1997, Oxford University Press.

“The Arab Predicament: Arab Political Thought and Practice since 1967” by Fuad Ajami, Cambridge University Press 1981, in Arabia and the Muslim World, pp.58-59 London, March 1982.

“Judhur Al-Wisaya Al-Urdunyia: Dirasa Fi Wathayik Al Archeev As-Suhunyia” (The Roots of Jordanian Tutelage: A Study of Documents from Zionist Archives) by Suleiman Basheer, Jerusalem 1980 in Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol 5, #1 Winter 1983.

“The Middle East and North Africa”, by Lois A. Aroian and Richard P. Mitchell, Mac Millian, New York, London, 1984, in Arab Studies Quarterly, Spring 1985. “The Arab State”, edited by Giaccomo Luciani, London, Routledge,1990. Pp. 464, in Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume 2 Number 2, July 1991, Oxford University Press.

“The Palestinian Uprising, A War By Other Means”, by F. Robert Hunter. London/New York: I. B. Tauris & Co., Publishers, 1991. Journal of Islamic Studies, Oxford University Press, January 1993.

“Disorienting Encounters: Travels of a Moroccan Scholar In France In 1845-1846, The Voyage of Muhammad As-Saffar”, by Susan Gilson Miller, University of California Press, 1992, Journal of Asian and African Studies (1994).

“Itinéraires de Paris à Jérusalem: La France et le conflit israélo-arabe” (Tome I: 1917-1958, tome II: 1958-1991), by Samir Kassir and Farouk Mardam-Bey, Les Livres de La Revue d’Etudes Palestiniennes (Washington, D.C.: Institut des Etudes Palestiniennes, 1992). Vol. I: Pp.294, vol. II: Pp.490. Book review requested by the Journal of Middle East Studies (JMES).


“Les Mythes Illégitimes: essai sur la Aterre promise” by F. Smith-Florentin,

Labor Fides, 1994, Geneve Book review requested by JMES. Political Ascent: Contemporary Ilamic Movements in North Africa, by Emad Eldin Shahin, Westview Press, 1997, requested by The Middle East Journal, for Spring 1998.

Proceedings of Seminars:

“Femmes, Développement, Environnement”, Association Ecologique de La Marsa, Tunis, Tunisia, 1995.

Community Service:

Volunteer in Interfaith Outreach Programs Visits to educational and civic institutions I am still trying to find some time to be trained as a guardian ad litem

I accepted a few interviews/attended many lectures at USF organized by the C enter for Strategic and Diplomatic Studies-Patel Center, and at Saint Leo Univ/Interfait Dialogue: Eternal Light as a guest of Dr. Abraham Peck and members of the American Jewish Committee of Sarasota. The event was also attended by President J. Genshaft.

International Service:

I assisted a Soufi calligraphist, writer, and composer, Mr. Ahmed Ben Diab, based in Paris and Milano, to translate a very difficult and poetically written foreword for his book to be published in June 2013. I accepted to present a lecture on Islam for Dr. Janna Merrick in Paris with the suggestion that they visit the Grand Mosque of Paris.

Dr. Bernard Hugonnier, former Deputy Director of the Division of Higher Education of OECD offered me the opportunity to join him and his newly created Consulting Group for a project of International Education Aid to Tunisia that he was submitting to the Office of the French Prime Minister. I had no choice but to decline his offer because I was about to leave for Paris and Tunisia for my own planned research. However, I accepted to assist him-although on very short notice- in evaluating his


project before he submitted it to the French government. Dr. Hugonnier and I had had the golden opportunity to be on the same panel with the former Director of UNESCO, Dr. Mayor, at the European Institute of Higher Education in Bucarest, and later at the First Global Forum on Higher Education in Santiago de Chile.

Public Service:

Local, regional, national and international: Frequent press / radio / T.V. interviews including the BBC, The Voice of America and Radio Vatican.

Languages:

English, French: Fluency in writing and speaking, basic Turkish and Portuguese Classical Arabic and Tunisian Dialect: Spoken and written Good foundation in Spanish (Conversation) Basic elements in German and Russian acquired during graduate studies in linguistics and philology.

Hobbies: Family: I enjoy family life with daughter Amira and wife Jeanne: visiting zoos,

museums, dance and musical concerts, traveling. Sports: Swimming, Tennis, Basketball, Fencing Music: Classical Guitar and World Folk Music

Gardening and Do-It-Yourself (home maintenance/auto mechanics)

References Furnished Upon Request Revised November 2013

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