Dr. Raphael Cohen-Almagor is a Senior Associate Research Fellow at The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Programme at The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI)
Raphael Cohen-Almagor received his doctorate from the University of Oxford. He served as Chair in Politics and was the Founding Director of the Middle East Study Centre (MESC) at the University of Hull. He has held many fellowships, including at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and served as President of The Association for Israel Studies (AIS). His visiting appointments include the Yitzhak Rabin-Fulbright Visiting Professorship at UCLA School of Law and Department of Communication, Visiting Professor at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, and Distinguished Visiting Professor to the Faculty of Laws at University College London. He was twice a Fellow at The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (WWICS) and until recently a Global Fellow of WWICS. In 2023, he was the Olof Palme Visiting Professor at Lund University, Sweden.
Raphael co-founded Israel’s Second Generation to the Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Organization and is the founder of The University of Haifa Center for Democratic Studies, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Medical Ethics Think Tank, and The MESC. He has authored hundreds of publications across political science, international relations, ethics, history, sociology, education, and poetry.
Areas of Expertise
Arab-Israeli Conflict, Security, Peace, Human Rights, Social Responsibility, Media Ethics, Medical Ethics, Political Theory, Public Policy, Freedom of Expression
Languages
English, Hebrew
Publications
The Boundaries of Liberty and Tolerance (1994)
The Right to Die with Dignity (2001)
Euthanasia in The Netherlands (2004)
Speech, Media and Ethics (2005)
The Scope of Tolerance (2006)
The Democratic Catch (2007)
Voyages (2007)
Confronting the Internet's Dark Side (2015)
Just, Reasonable Multiculturalism: Liberalism, Culture and Coercion (2021)
The Republic, Secularism and Security: France versus the Burqa and the Niqab (2022)
Forthcoming
His book Resolving the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict: A Critical Study of Peace Mediation, Facilitation and Negotiations between Israel and the PLO, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press (2026). He has also edited several volumes.
Media
Podcast
"Professor Rafael Cohen-Almagor - part 1", Israel Connexion, 2021
"Professor Rafael Cohen-Almagor - part 2", Israel Connexion, 2021
"Professor Rafael Cohen-Almagor - part 3", Israel Connexion, 2021
"Online Hate Speech and Internet Intermediaries. In conversation with Professor Raphael Cohen-Almagor", Hate Crime Unit, 2020
Articles
"Confronting the dark side of the internet", Mercatornet, 2015