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RAPHAEL COHEN-ALMAGOR Raphael Cohen-Almagor received his doctorate in political theory from Oxford University (1991). Former member of the Israel Press Council (1997-2000). In 1999-2000 he was awarded the Fulbright-Yitzhak Rabin Award and was a Visiting Professor at UCLA School of Law and Department of Communication. He was Chairperson of Library and Information Studies (200-2003) and is Associate Professor at the Department of
Communication, University of Haifa, where he heads the Center for Democratic Studies. In 2003-2004 he was a Senior Fellow and visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University. Raphael is the author of
Middle Eastern Shores
(poetry, Hebrew, 1993),
The Boundaries of Liberty and Tolerance
(1994),
The Right to Die with Dignity
(2001) and
Euthanasia in the Netherlands
(2004), and editor of several books, among them
Liberal Democracy and the Limits of Tolerance: Essays in Honor and Memory of Yitzhak Rabin
(2000),
Challenges to Democracy: Essays in Honour and Memory of Isaiah Berlin
(2000),
Medical Ethics at the Dawn of the 21st Century
(2000), and
Moral Dilemmas in Medicine
(Hebrew, 2002). He is currently completing a book titled
The Scope of Tolerance
as well as his second poetry book,
Travels
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