Elie Rekhess
Visiting Crown Chair in Middle East Studies, Professor of History,
(Ph.D. Tel Aviv University)
Office: Crowe Hall 4-135
Phone: 847-491-3984
E-mail: e-rekhess@northwestern.edu
Dr. Rekhess who is one of Israel's leading experts on the Arab minority in Israel, Jewish-Arab relations, Palestinian politics, and the Islamic resurgence in the West Bank and Gaza, teaches courses on modern Israel and the Middle East at Northwestern each year, usually in the spring quarter. He also serves as Senior Research Fellow in the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies Tel Aviv University, as the head of its Program on Jewish-Arab Cooperation in Israel sponsored by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, and on the faculty of its Department of Middle Eastern History.
He is the author of, most recently, Islamic Fundamentalism in Israel, and co-editor of two forthcoming volumes: The Municipal Elections in the Arab and Druze Sector (2003): Clans, Sectarianism and Political Parties, and The Arabs in Israel: A National Minority in a Jewish Nation State. His other publications include, The Arab Minority in Israel: Between Communism and Arab Nationalism (1993); three edited volumes, The Arabs in Israeli Politics: Dilemmas of Identity (1998); Arab Politics in Israel at a Crossroads (1996); The Arab Minority in Israel: Dilemmas of Political Orientation and Social Change (1994); and numerous shorter studies.
Dr. Rekhess has held a variety of significant advisory posts, including Senior Consultant on Arab Minority Affairs to the Prime Minister's Office (1993-1994); Senior Consultant on Arab Affairs to the Histadrut Labor Organization (1994); Senior Consultant to the Abraham Fund for the Enhancement of Jewish-Arab Coexistence (1994 to date); and Member of the Board of 'Sikkuy', the Association for the Advancement of Equal Opportunities (1993 to date). A regular public lecturer and television commentator on Arab issues in Israel and the territories, he served as a strategic advisor to Ehud Barak during his election campaign (1999) and as an advisor to Science Minister Matan Vilna'i, Chairman of the Ministerial Committee on the Arabs in Israel (1999-2000).
Jewish Studies Courses
History 391 The Nascent State of Israel - Internal Politics & Social Change
History 392 Arabs in a Jewish State: the Arab Minority in Israel- Between Integration and Alienation
Article on Iran
