General
- Kaminer, Matan. 2024. “The Abrahamic Ideology: Patrilineal Kinship and the Politics of Peacemaking in the Contemporary Middle East.” Millennium 52, no. 2: 198–220.
The Abraham Accords and Middle East Geopolitics
- Cohen, Sam Zieve. 2022. “The General Who Coined the Abraham Accords.” The Circuit, 10 January. https://tinyurl.com/circuit-general
- El Kurd, Dana. 2023. “The Paradox of Peace: The Impact of Normalization with Israel on the Arab World.” Global Studies Quarterly 3, no. 3: ksad042.
- Evron, Guy Yadin. 2020. “‘This, Our Cousin Does Not Yet Understand’: The Arab ‘Cousins’ in the Early Zionist Imagination.” MESA Graduate Prize Paper Competition, New York University, New York, NY.
- Fakhro, Elham, and Tareq Baconi. 2022. “A Shared Vision: Security Convergence between the Gulf and Israel.” Journal of Palestine Studies 51, no. 3: 50–55. https://doi.org/10.1080/0377919X.2022.2090209
- Hanieh, Adam. 2018. Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, chapter 8.1.
- Landau, Dana, and Lior Lehrs. 2022. “Populist Peacemaking: Trump’s Peace Initiatives in the Middle East and the Balkans.” International Affairs 98, no. 6: 2001–19.
- Podeh, Elie. 2018. “Saudi Arabia and Israel: From Secret to Public Engagement, 1948–2018.” Middle East Journal 72, no. 4: 563–86.
- Ravid, Barak. n.d. Trump’s Peace: The Abraham Accords and the Reshaping of the Middle East. Edited by Sofia Kouropatov, Yiffat Givon, and Noam Tamari. Translated by Sahar Zivan. With Hanoch Piven. Barak Ravid - Independent Publishing.
- Segev, Samuel, and Yvette Shumacher. 2008. “Israel-Morocco Relations From Hassan II to Muhammad VI.” Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs 2, no. 3: 49–60.
- The Economist. 2022. “Trade and Security Ties Are Knitting Israel into Its Region.” 22 September. https://tinyurl.com/economist-knitting
- Ziadah, Rafeef. 2021. “Saudi-UAE Interventions: Arms, Aid and Counter-Revolution.” Long Reads, Transnational Institute, Amsterdam. https://tinyurl.com/ziadah-tni
Migrant Workers in Israel and the Gulf
- Iskander, Natasha. Does Skill Make Us Human?: Migrant Workers in 21st-Century Qatar and Beyond. Princeton University Press, 2021.
- Kaminer, Matan. 2024. Capitalist Colonial: Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture. Stanford University Press.
- Kamrava, Mehran, and Zahra Babar, eds. 2012. Migrant Labor in the Persian Gulf. Hurst & Co.
- Raijman, Rebeca, and Adriana Kemp. 2010. “The New Immigration to Israel: Becoming a De-Facto Immigration State in the 1990s.” In Immigration Worldwide, edited by Uma Segal, Nazneen Mayadas, and Doreen Elliot, 227–43. Oxford University Press.
Theocracy in the Middle East
- Birnbaum, Maria. 2022. “Entangled Empire: Religion and the Transnational History of Pakistan and Israel.” Millennium 50, no. 2: 561–90.
- Diwan, Kristin. 2021. “Clerical Associations in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates: Soft Power Competition in Islamic Politics.” International Affairs 97, no. 4: 945–63.
- Mikdashi, Maya. 2022. Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
- Möller, Lena-Maria. 2022. “Marital Choice and ‘Suitability’ in a Heterogeneous Society: Some Reflections on Kafāla in the United Arab Emirates.” In The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, edited by Javaid Rehman, Ayesha Shahid, and Steve Foster, vol. 6, 134–47. Leiden: Brill.
- Tirosh, Yofi. 2020. “Diminishing Constitutional Law: The First Three Decades of Women’s Exclusion Adjudication in Israel.” International Journal of Constitutional Law 18, no. 3: 821–46.
“Abrahamic Religions” and Related Notions
- Bashkin, Orit. 2021. “On Noble and Inherited Virtues: Discussions of the Semitic Race in the Levant and Egypt, 1876–1918.” Humanities 10, no. 3.
- Boum, Aomar. 2012. “The Performance of Convivencia: Communities of Tolerance and the Reification of Toleration.” Religion Compass 6, no. 3: 174.
- Campos, Michelle U. 2011. Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 77.
- Derrida, Jacques. 2001. “Hostipitality.” In Acts of Religion: Jacques Derrida, edited by Gil Anidjar, 368–80, 414–20. New York, NY: Routledge.
- Evron, Guy Yadin. 2020. “‘This, Our Cousin Does Not Yet Understand’: The Arab ‘Cousins’ in the Early Zionist Imagination.” MESA Graduate Prize Paper Competition, New York University, New York, NY.
- Hughes, Aaron. 2013. Abrahamic Religions: On the Uses and Abuses of History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 64–98.
- Kirk, Mimi. 2022. “American Evangelicals, the Gulf States, and Israel: A Cynical Covenant.” Arab Center Washington DC, 24 August. https://tinyurl.com/kirk-evangel
- Massad, Joseph A. 2015. “Forget Semitism!” In Islam in Liberalism, edited by Joseph A. Massad, 328–29. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
- McAlister, Melani. 2001. Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East, 1945–2000. Berkeley, CA; Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 165–78.
- Pasha, Mustapha Kamal. 2017. “Religion and the Fabrication of Race.” Millennium 45, no. 3: 312–34.
Anthropological Theory: Kinship and Communities of Disagreement
- Abu El-Haj, Nadia. 2014. The Genealogical Science: The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
- Ben-Yehoyada, Naor. 2014. “Transnational Political Cosmology: A Central Mediterranean Example.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 56, no. 4: 875–76.
- Boyarin, Daniel, and Jonathan Boyarin. 1993. “Diaspora: Generation and the Ground of Jewish Identity.” Critical Inquiry 19, no. 4: 693–725.
- Hughes, Geoffrey. 2020. “Envious Ethnography and the Ethnography of Envy in Anthropology’s ‘Orient’: Towards a Theory of Envy.” Ethos 48, no. 2.
- Pitt-Rivers, Julian. 2017. “The Fate of Shechem or the Politics of Sex.” In From Hospitality to Grace: A Julian Pitt-Rivers Omnibus, edited by Giovanni Da Col and Andrew Shryock, 352–6. Chicago, IL: HAU Books.
- Scheele, Judith, and Andrew Shryock, eds. 2019. The Scandal of Continuity in Middle East Anthropology: Form, Duration, Difference. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
- Shryock, Andrew. 1997. Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan. Berkeley, CA; Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press.
- Shryock, Andrew. 2012. “Breaking Hospitality Apart: Bad Hosts, Bad Guests, and the Problem of Sovereignty.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 18, no. s1: S20–33.
Middle Eastern Religions in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
- McNutt, Paula. 1999. Reconstructing the Society of Ancient Israel. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 41–2, 200–2.
- Newby, G. D. 2000. “Text and Territory: Jewish-Muslim Relations 632–750 CE.” In Judaism and Islam: Boundaries, Communication and Interaction, edited by Benjamin Hary, John Hayes, and Fred Astren, 83–96. Leiden: Brill.
- Retsö, Jan. 2002. The Arabs in Antiquity: Their History from the Assyrians to the Umayyads. London: Routledge, 212–28.
- Shoemaker, J. 2011. The Death of a Prophet: The End of Muhammad’s Life and the Beginnings of Islam. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1–17.
Zionism
- Ben Dor-Benite, Zvi. ‘Proletarianization of the Mizrahim’. In Race and the Question of Palestine, edited by Ronit Lentin and Lana Tatour. Stanford University Press, 2025.
- Caplan, Neil. 1983. ‘Faisal Ibn Husain and the Zionists: A Re-Examination with Documents’. International History Review 5, no. 4: 561–614.
- Mor, Liron. 2023. Conflicts: The Poetics and Politics of Palestine-Israel. New York, NY: Fordham University Press.
- Mor, Liron, and Matan Kaminer. 2025. “‘Matter in the Hands of the Maker’: The Racialization of Mizrahi Labor in Zionist Culture.” Palestine/Israel Review 2, no. 2: 278–309. https://doi.org/10.5325/pir.2.2.0008
- Tzoreff, Avi-ram. 2020. “Beyond the Boundaries of ‘The Land of the Deer’: R. Binyamin between Jewish and Arab Geographies, and the Critique of the Zionist-Colonial Connection.” Jerusalem Quarterly 82: 130–53.
- Weizmann, Chaim. 1968. The Letters and Papers of Chaim Weizmann, Series A, Vol. VIII. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 210.
Progressive Readings
- Qaḥf, Muhjah. 2016. Hagar Poems. University of Arkansas Press.
- Thabede, S’lindile. 2022. “Navigating the Threshold: An African-Feminist Reading of the Hagar Narrative in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.” PhD diss., Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch.
- Tzoreff, Avi-Ram. 2021. “The Political Theology of the Feminine Jew and Anticolonial Criticism in the Writings of Yehoshua Radler-Feldman (R. Binyamin) during WWI”. Jewish Quarterly Review 111, no. 1: 105–29. https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2021.0005.