Selected publications on political topics

(with Terry Regier) “Palestine and the Western ‘Street’,” Security in Context, 1 May 2024.

“There is No Military Objective in Gaza,” Daily Nous blog guest post, 8 November 2023.

(Editor and Translator) 11 Lives: Stories from Palestinian Exile, New York: OR Books and the Institute for Palestine Studies, 2022.

“Shereen Abu Akleh in Her Own Words,” Mondoweiss, 23 May 2022.

“Israel Flouts the Distinction between Civilians and Combatants,” Palestine Square (Blog of the Institute for Palestine Studies), 24 May 2021.

“BDS and the Morality of Boycott,” Palestine Square (Blog of the Institute for Palestine Studies), 2 December 2020.

“Netflix Series Fauda as an Effective Tool of Israeli Propaganda,” Palestine Square (Blog of the Institute for Palestine Studies), 15 June 2020.

Interview about Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon, al-Modon (Beirut), 29 January 2016 (in Arabic).

Interview about Palestine and Authoritarian Arab Regmies, FarsNews, 11 October 2015.

"Five Lessons Learned from the Israeli Attack on Gaza," Theory & Event 18:1 (2015).  (Pre-publication version: here; Arabic version: as-Safir (Beirut), 25 July 2014)

"Does Israel Target Civilians?" Institute for Palestine Studies website (11 August 2014).

(with Terry Regier) "What Next for the 'Arab Street'?" Perspectives: Political Analysis and Commentary from the Middle East, Spring 2011, pp.54-57.  (TV appearance on Arab uprisings on TVO - The Agenda)

"'The Most Moral Army in the World'": The New "Ethical Code" of the Israeli Military and the War on Gaza," Journal of Palestine Studies 39:3 (Spring 2010), pp. 6-23. Video interview on the subject of the article here.

(Editor) Manifestations of Identity: The Lived Reality of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon (Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies and Institut francais du Proche-Orient, 2010).  (Also published in Arabic translation.)

"'The Most Moral Army in the World,'" Znet, 17 May 2009.

"Gaza Phone Tag," Counterpunch, 5 January 2009.

(with Terry Regier) "The Arab Street: Tracking a Political Metaphor," Middle East Journal, 63:1 (2009), 11-29. Media coverage: ”On the Media,” National Public Radio, Slate.

(with Diane Riskedahl) "The Road to Nahr al-Barid: Lebanese Political Discourse and Palestinian Civil Rights," Middle East Report no.244, 37:3 (2007).

(with Tarif Khalidi) "The Pope's Monopoly on Reason," The Nation, 21 September 2006.

"The Light of Reason and the Right of Return," American Philosophical Association Newsletter on International Cooperation, 4:1 (2004), 13-15.

"Utopian Zionism or Zionist Proselytism? A Reading of Herzl's Altneuland," Journal of Palestine Studies, 30:4 (2001), 55-67 (also published in Arabic translation in Majallat al-Dirasat al-Filastiniyyah 45-46 Winter-Spring 2001, pp. 44-55).

Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon 2001, Institute for Palestine Studies: Beirut, 2001.

"The Right of Return for Palestinian Refugees," Nashrat al-Hijra al-Qasriyya (Forced Migration Review; published by Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford) 7, July 2000 (in Arabic).

Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon, Institute for Palestine Studies: Beirut, 1999.

"Formulating the Right of National Self-Determination," in Philosophical Perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, ed. Tomis Kapitan, New York: Sharpe, 1997.

"Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon," Middle East Report no. 194-5, 25:6 (1995), pp. 28-29.

"A First Visit to Palestine," Journal of Palestine Studies 24:3 (1995), pp. 74-80.

Book Reviews

Review of Israeli and Palestinian Identities in History and Literature edited by Kamal Abdel-Malek and David C. Jacobson, Journal of Palestine Studies 30:1 (2000), pp. 104-106.

Review of The Founding Myths of Israel by Zeev Sternhell, Journal of Palestine Studies 29:2 (2000), pp.109-111.

Review of Beyond the Promised Land by Glenn Frankel, Journal of Palestine Studies 26:2 (1997), pp. 107-109.

Review of Sandcastles by Milton Viorst, Journal of Palestine Studies 25:4 (1996), pp.97-99.

Review of The Slopes of Lebanon by Amos Oz, Beirut Review 1:2 (1991), pp. 109-111. 

Review of Children of Bethany by Said Aburish, Journal of Palestine Studies 19:4 (1990), 122-125.

Review of From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman, Journal of Palestine Studies 19:2 (1990), 117-121.