Publications

Books:

Nasser’s Peace: Egypt’s Response to the 1967 War with Israel (New York: Routledge, 2017). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315110967

Journals and Magazines:

“The Arab-Iranian Stamp War Over the Persian Gulf: 1949-1973,” The Journal of the Middle East and Africa (2025), pp. 1–22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21520844.2025.2500765

“A New Marshall Plan for Gaza,” Foreign Policy, March 27, 2025.

“The Hashemite Regime on Jordanian Postage Stamps: A Visual History of Nation-Building,” Alternatives (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/03043754241292574

“Arab Challenges to Jordan’s Custodianship of Holy Sites in Jerusalem,” Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 47, No. 3 (Spring 2024), pp. 57-78. DOI: 10.1353/jsa.2024.a927947

“Visualizing Palestine in Arab Postage Stamps: 1948-1967,” Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 60, Issue 6 (2024), pp. 979-999. DOI: 10.1080/00263206.2024.2314523

“Jordanian Stamps of the Islamic Holy Places in Jerusalem: 1967-1989,” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 52, Issue 2 (2023), pp. 271-93. DOI: 10.1080/13530194.2023.2251129

“Changing Attitudes Toward the West Bank in Jordan,” Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Fall 2022), pp. 44-70. DOI: 10.1353/jsa.2022.0022

“Maps of the West Bank in Jordanian Postage Stamps, 1952–1985,” Contemporary Review of the Middle East, Vol. 9, Issue 1 (March 2022), pp. 51-69. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/23477989211053177

“Why Jordan Will Not Reannex the West Bank,” Foreign Policy, November 10, 2021.

“Nasser and the Palestinians,” Middle East Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Summer 2021), pp. 1-13.

“Five Domestic and Regional Security Challenges for Jordan in 2021,” Strategic Assessment, Vol. 24, No. 2 (April 2021), pp. 129-133. 

“Don’t Pursue Saudi-Israeli Peace at Jordan’s Expense,” Foreign Policy, January 26, 2021.

“Does Jordan Want the West Bank?” Middle East Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 4 (Fall 2020), pp. 1-11.

“Can Palestinian Third Parties Make A Difference?” Palestine–Israel Journal of Politics, Economics, and Culture, Vol. 18, Issue 2/3 (2012), pp. 121-125.

“Defining the Enemy as Israel, Zionist, Neo-Nazi or Jewish: The Propaganda War under Nasser’s Egypt, 1952-1967,” (Jerusalem: The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Hebrew University, 2012). Posen Papers in Contemporary Antisemitism, Issue 14, pp. 1-26.

“Nasser’s Inter-Arab Rivalries: 1958-1967,” Institute for Security and Defense Analysis—Middle East Observer, Vol. 2, Issue 4 (March-June 2011), pp. 88-92.

“The Syria-Soviet Alliance,” inFOCUS Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring 2009).

Articles:

“Arab Leaders are Slowly Realizing that Hamas has to Go,” The Jewish Chronicle, February 21, 2025.

“Yom Kippur War 50 Years on: Egypt Thinks it Won but Fails to Exploit the Peace Dividend,” The Jewish Chronicle, September 28, 2023.

“Jordanians Start to Discuss Reclaiming West Bank Rule,” The Jewish Chronicle, September 18, 2020.

“How Big is Russia’s Win in Syria?” Russia Matters, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, November 6, 2019.

“Russia and the U.S. have Common Interests in Syria. But it may not Matter,” The Washington Post, July 9, 2018.

“Why Russia will Prevail in Syria,” The Washington Post, February 27, 2018.

“Iran has Driven Israel and the Gulf Arab States Together,” The Washington Post, January 3, 2018.

“The Pervasiveness of Antisemitism in Jordanian Media and Prospects for Change,” Foreign Policy Research Institute, September 20, 2017.

“A Humiliated Arab World Turns to Islamism,” The Jewish Chronicle, June 6, 2017.

“Nasser’s Legacy on the 50th Anniversary of the 1967 War,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, No. 472, May 21, 2017.

“Palestinian Attitudes Toward Israel,” Foreign Policy Research Institute, May 2012.

“Post-Mubarak Egyptian Attitudes Toward Israel,” Foreign Policy Research Institute, October 2011.

“Looking Back: Nasser’s Inter-Arab Rivalries: 1958-1967,” Al Arabiya News, July 30, 2011.

“Academic Perspective: Revisiting Nasser and Palestine after the 1967 War,” Al Arabiya News, June 11, 2011.

Book Review:

“A Review of Asher Susser’s ‘Jordan, Palestine, and the Politics of Collective Identity: A History’,” Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, May 8, 2025.

“A Review of Yehuda U. Blanga’s ‘The US, Israel, and Egypt: Diplomacy in the Shadow of Attrition, 1967-70’,”  Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, March 23, 2020.

“A Review of Oroub El-Abed’s ‘Unprotected: Palestinians in Egypt since 1948’,”  Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, May 18, 2010.