Jean-François LEGRAIN
CNRS/GREMMO (Groupe de recherches et d’études sur la Méditerranée et le Moyen-Orient)
Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon
Publications in English
“The Fundamentalists : a Challenge for the PLO Monopoly in Occupied Palestine”, a conference for the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (Brismes) and AFEMAM, Durham, 9-11 july 1989.
1990 - "The Islamic Movement and the Intifada", in Intifada. Palestine at the Crossroads, directed by Jamal R. Nassar et Roger Heacock, New York, Praeger, 1990, p. 175-189 (a great part of this text was plagiarized by Michel Jubran and Laura Drake, "The Islamic Fundamentalist Movement in the West Bank and Gaza Strip ", Middle East Policy (MEP), II/1993, 2, p. 1-15. The plagiarism was confessed in MEP, III/1994, 3, p. 2).
1991 - "A Defining Moment : Palestinian Islamic Fundamentalism" in Islamic Fundamentalisms and the Gulf Crisis, edited by James Piscatori, Chicago, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1991, p. 70-87.
1994 - "Palestinian Islamisms : Patriotism as a Condition of Their Expansion", in Accounting for Fundamentalisms : The Dynamic Character of Movements, edited by Martin E. Marty et R. Scott Appleby, Chicago, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, p. 413-427.
1995 -"Hamas", in Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, edited by John L. Esposito, New-York, Oxford University Press, 1995, t. 2, p. 94-95.
1997 - "Hamas : Legitimate Heir of Palestinian Nationalism ?", in Political Islam. Revolution, Radicalism or Reform ?, edited by John L. Esposito, Boulder-London, Lynne Rienner, p. 161-178.
1999 - "The successions of Yasir Arafat", Journal of Palestine Studies, XXVIII/4, Summer 1999, n° 112, p. 5-20 (http://www.palestine-studies.org/final/en/journals/content.php?aid=2556&jid=1&iid=112&vid=XXVIII&vol=129) (local copy).
2004– Interview by Gilles Paris, "Arafat Irreplaceable" (local copy), translation of "Une succession et non un remplacement : Arafat est irremplaçable", Le Monde, 6 novembre 2004 (http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3218,36-385847,0.html) (local copy).
2005/1 - "Mahmoud Abbas, the savior ?", Truthout (http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011805H.shtml) (local copy), translation of "Mahmoud Abbas : le sauveur ?", Le Figaro, 17 janvier 2005 (http://www.figaro.fr/debats/20050117.FIG0279.html) (local copy).
2005/2 – « Yâsir ‘Arafât », Encyclopaedia of Islam, Leiden, Brill, 3e édition.
2006/1 -"Hamas on the Political Scene", an English translation by Nur al-Cublicle from Florida (http://nuralcubicle.blogspot.com/2006/01/victory-of-hamas-without-hysteria.html) (local copy) of " Le Hamas sur la scène politique", Le Monde, 31 janvier 2006 (http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3232,36-735978,0.html).
2006/2 – "Beyond Gaza and beyond Beirut: the true objectives of Israel", an English translation by Nur al-Cublicle from Florida (http://nuralcubicle.blogspot.com/2006/07/just-what-is-israel-up-to.html) (local copy) of "Au-delà de Gaza, au-delà de Beyrouth, les vrais objectifs d'Israël", Le Figaro, 21 juillet 2006 (http://www.lefigaro.fr/debats/20060721.FIG000000050_au_dela_de _gaza_au_dela_de_beyrouth_les_vrais_objectifs_d_israel.html) (local copy).
2006/3 - "Fatah vs. Hamas, heading toward an internecine Palestinian war?”, an English translation by Nur al-Cublicle from Florida (http://nuralcubicle.blogspot.com/2006/12/hamas-and-fatah-no-civil-war.html) (local copy) of "Fatah-Hamas, vers une guerre interpalestinienne ?", chat sur lemonde.fr, 15 décembre 2006 (http://www.lemonde.fr/web/imprimer_element/0,40-0@2-3218,50-845536,0.html) (local copy) .
2007 - "Gaza: Fatah repudiates the Constitutional process", an English translation by Nur al-Cublicle from Florida (http://nuralcubicle.blogspot.com/2007/06/gaza-fatah-repudiates-constitutional.html) (local copy) of "Palestine : aucun rafistolage n’est envisageable", Libération, 13 juin 2007 (http://www.liberation.fr/actualite/ecrans/_files/file_260781_35198.pdf) (local copy).
2008/ – "Hamas", in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, edited by John L. Esposito & Natana DeLong-Bas, New-York, Oxford University Press, 2d edition, will be released in october 2008 (http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/).
2009 - "The Shiite Threat in Palestine: between phobias and propaganda", Communication given on 1 October 2009 in the International Conference on Sunni-Shia Contemporary Relations organised by Brigitte Maréchal - Centre interdisciplinaire d'études de l'Islam dans le monde contemporain (CISMOC) (Catholic University of Louvain) and Sami Zemmi - The Middle East and North-Africa Research Group (MENARG) Universiteit Gent (UGent), Brussels, 30 September - 2 October 2009 (French original version).