Political Violence and Conflict:
“Palestinian Nationalism,” in Asaf Siniver, ed. Routledge Companion to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (London: Routledge, 2022), pp. 59-74.
“Rethinking Compellence Success: Why The Chemical Weapons Deal was a Good Deal …for Bashar al-Assad: An Exchange on the article, ‘The Obama Administration and the War in Syria,” Security Studies, Vol 30, No. 2 (2021), pp. 302-309.
“Syrian Views on Obama’s Red Line and the Case for Limited Strikes against Assad,” Ethics & International Affairs, Vol. 34, No. 2 (July 2020), pp. 189-200.
Triadic Coercion: Israel’s Targeting of States that Host Nonstate Actors, co-authored with Boaz Atzili (New York: Columbia University Press, Series in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare, 2018).
“Political unity is the precondition for effective strategy,” in Jamie Stern-Weiner, ed. Moment of Truth: Tackling Israel-Palestine’s Toughest Questions (New York: Or Books, 2018), pp. 147-150.
“Rebel Fragmentation in Syria and Palestine,” Program on Middle East Political Science Studies No. 5, December 18, 2013. **Shorter version published in Foreign Policy, October 10, 2013.
“Triadic Deterrence: Coercing Strength, Beaten by Weakness” (with Boaz Atzili), Security Studies, 21, no. 2 (April-June 2012), pp. 301-335.
“The Palestinian national movement and the 1967 War,” in Wm Roger Louis and Avi Shlaim, eds., The 1967 Arab-Israeli War: Origins and Consequences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 126-148.
“Precluding Nonviolence, Propelling Violence: The Effect of Internal Fragmentation on Movement Behavior,” Studies in Comparative International Development, 47, no. 1 (March 2012), pp. 23-46.
“Nonstate actors, fragmentation, and conflict processes” (special issue co-edited with Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham), Journal of Conflict Resolution, 56, 1 (February 2012). Introduction, pp. 3-15.
“Out-group conflict, in-group unity? Exploring the effect of repression on movement fragmentation” (with Theodore McLauchlin), Journal of Conflict Resolution, 56, no. 1 (February 2012), pp. 41-66.
“History, Rationality, Narrative, Imagery: A Four-Way Conversation on Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict,” (With Neil Caplan, Brent Sasley, and Mira Sucharov), Journal of Political Science Education, 8 (2012), pp. 288-302.
Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011; Paperback, June 2014).
“A Composite-Actor Approach to Conflict Behavior,” in Adria Lawrence and Erica Chenoweth, eds., Rethinking Violence: States and Non-state Actors in Conflict (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010), pp. 197-219.
“Spoiling Inside and Out: Internal Political Contestation and the Middle East Peace Process,” International Security, 33, no. 3 (Winter 2008/09), pp. 79-109.
Social Movements, Protest, and Uprisings:
“Putting Palestinian Agency First,” Introduction to the Special Issue: Recentering the Palestinian People in the Study of Politics, Middle East Law and Governance, Vol. 14, No. 3 (October 2022), pp. 285–304.
“We don’t have the luxury to stop”: Interview with Syrian civil society activist Oula Ramadan.” Middle East Report, 301, December 2021.
“Mobilization from scratch: Large-scale collective action without preexisting organization in the Syrian uprising.” Comparative Political Studies Vol. 54, no. 10 (September 2021), pp. 1786-1817.
“Religion and Mobilization in the Syrian Uprising,” in Melani Cammett and Pauline Jones, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Politics in Muslim Societies (Oxford University Press, published online, October 2020).
“Civil Action in the Syrian Conflict,” in Deborah Avant et. al, eds. Civil Action and Dynamics of Violence in Conflict (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 35-63.
“Moral Identity and Protest Cascades in Syria,” British Journal of Political Science, 48, no. 4 (October 2018), pp. 877-901.
“Contingency and Agency in a Turning Point Protest: March 18, 2011 in Daraa, Syria,” in James Jasper and Frederic Volpi, eds., Microfoundations of the Arab Uprisings: Mapping Interactions between Regimes and Protesters (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018), pp. 111-134.
“Revolution and Rebirth in Syria,” in Arabic in الثورات العربية عسر التحوّل الديمقراطي ومآلاته [The Arab Revolutions: The Dilemma and Mechanisms of Democratic Transformation] (Doha, Qatar: Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, 2018), pp. 159-183.
We Crossed A Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria (New York: Custom House, 2017).
“Palestinians and the Arab Spring,” in Adam Roberts, Michael J. Willis, Rory McCarthy, and Timothy Garton Ash, eds., Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring: Triumphs and Disasters (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 248-269.
“From Palestine to Syria: Three Intifadas and lessons for popular struggles,” Middle East Law and Governance, 8 (2016), pp. 91-103.
“Diffusion mechanisms as stepping stones: Qualitative evidence from Syria,” Program on Middle East Political Science Studies No. 21, August 24, 2016.
“A new Palestinian Intifada?” Foreign Policy, October 10, 2011. **Reposted at Palestine Note, http://palestinenote.com/blogs/blogs/archive/2011/10/11/a-new-palestinian-intifada.aspx#comments**
Occupied Voices: Stories of Everyday Life from the Second Intifada (New York: Nation Books, 2003).
Migration, Refugee Studies, and Diasporas:
“Neoliberal Humanitarianism: Contradictory Policy Logics and Syrian Refugee Experiences in Japan,” (co-authored with Gracia Liu-Farrer and Mohammed al-Masri), Migration Studies, published online on March 12, 2024.
“Migration and Forced Displacement in the Middle East” (with Rawan Arar, Laurie Brand, Rana B. Khoury, Noora Lori, Lama Mourad), in Marc Lynch, Jillian Schwedler, and Sean Yom, eds. The Political Science of the Middle East: Theory and Research since the Arab Uprisings (New York, Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. 232-255.
“How Homeland Experiences Shape Refugee Belonging: Rethinking Exile, Home, and Integration in the Syrian Case,” International Migration Review, first published online, April 14, 2021.
“What Makes the ‘Refugee Crisis’ a Crisis? Displaced Syrians on the Need for Dignity,” Digest of Middle East Studies, first published online August 23, 2021.
“Host state policy, socio-economic stratification, and Syrian refugees in Germany and Turkey,” Comparative Politics, Vol. 52, No. 2 (January 2020), pp. 241-272.
“Between Appreciation and Frustration: Syrian Asylum Seekers and the Social Welfare Bureaucracy in Germany,” in Dalia Abdelhady, Nina Gren, and Martin Joormann, eds, Refugees Encountering Northern European Welfare States: The Construction of Crisis and the Bureaucratization of Everyday Life (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2020).
“Becoming a Refugee: Reflections on Self-Understandings of Displacement from the Syrian Case,” Review of Middle East Studies Vol. 52, No. 2 (November 2018), pp. 299-309.
“Culture or Bureaucracy? Challenges in Syrian Refugees’ Initial Settlement in Germany,” Middle East Law and Governance 9 (2017): 313-327. **A shorter version available as: “Culture or Bureaucracy? Challenges in Syrian refugees’ initial incorporation in Germany,” Program on Middle East Political Science Studies No. 25, March 2017.**
“Vetting Trump’s Vetting of Refugees,” Program on Middle East Political Science Studies No. 24, March 2017.
“Competing for Lebanon’s Diaspora: Transnationalism and Domestic Struggles in a Weak State,” International Migration Review, 48, no. 1 (Spring 2014), pp. 34-75. **Winner of Moise Khayrallah Lebanese Diaspora Studies Prize for best article by an established scholar in 2014**
“Emigration and the Resilience of Politics in Lebanon,” Arab Studies Journal, 21, no. 1 (Spring 2013), pp. 187-209.
“Emigration and Power: A Study of Sects in Lebanon, 1860-2010,” Politics & Society, 41, no. 1 (March 2013), pp. 102-133.
Emotions and Politics:
“Narratives of Fear in Syria,” Perspectives on Politics 14, no. 1 (March 2016), pp. 21-37. **Winner of Syrian Studies Association Prize for best article in 2016**
“Affects in the Arab Uprisings,” in Nicolas Demertzis, ed., Emotions and Politics (Hampshire, England: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2013), pp. 228-242.
“Emotions and the Microfoundations of the Arab Uprisings,” Perspectives on Politics, 11, no. 2 (June 2013), pp. 387-409. ** Chosen by Foreign Policy as one of the best journal articles on the Middle East in 2013**
“An Emotional Lens on the 2011 Arab Uprisings,” In Brian Edwards, ed., On the Ground: New Directions in Middle East and North African Studies (Doha: Northwestern University in Qatar, 2014), pp. 31-37.
Political Transitions
“Mobilization in Military-Controlled Transitions: Lessons from Turkey, Brazil, and Egypt” (with Mert Arslanalp), Comparative Sociology 16 (2017), pp. 311-339.
“Struggle in a Post-Charisma Transition: Rethinking Palestinian Politics after Arafat” (with Ali Jarbawi), Journal of Palestine Studies, 36, no. 4 (Summer 2007), pp. 6-21. **[Simultaneously published in Arabic as مأزق “فتح” بعد غياب القيادة الكاريزمية والشرعية الثوري in مجلة الدراسات الفلسطينية 71 (Summer 2007)]**
Research Methods and Ethics:
“Emotional Sensibility: Exploring the Methodological and Ethical Implications of Research Participants’ Emotions,” American Political Science Review, first published online, December 14, 2022.
“On Field-being,” in Peter Krause and Ora Szekely, eds. Stories From the Field: A Guide to Navigating Fieldwork in Political Science, forthcoming with Columbia University Press, June 2020.
“Qualitative Transparency Deliberations: Research in violent or post-conflict political settings” (report with Ana Arjona and Zachariah Mampilly). American Political Science Association Organized Section for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, Qualitative Transparency Deliberations, Working Group Final Reports, Report IV.2 (February 13, 2019); under review at Perspectives on Politics as part of a larger symposium on QTD.
“Memory as a field site: interviewing displaced persons,” International Journal of Middle East Studies Vol. 49, No. 3 (August 2017), pp. 501-505.
“Puzzles, Time, and Ethnographic Sensibilities: Research Methods after the Arab Spring,” Middle East Law and Governance 7 (2015), pp. 132-140.
“Ethics and Research on the Middle East,” Program on Middle East Political Science Studies No. 8, July 2, 2014.
“Middle East political science research during transition,” Program on Middle East Political Science Studies No. 1, June 12, 2012.
Book Reviews:
“Reluctant Reception: Refugees, Migration and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa (by Kelsey P. Norman).” Perspectives on Politics 19, no. 4 (December 2021), pp. 1351-1352.
“The Rule of Violence: Subjectivity, Memory and Government in Syria (by Salwa Ismail).” Perspectives on Politics, 17, no. 4 (December 2019), pp. 1204-1206.
“Rebel Power: Why National Movements Compete, Fight, and Win (by Peter R. Krause),” H-Diplo ISSF Roundtable, 10, no. 16 (2018).
“What do Affects Affect? On Andrew A.G. Ross’s Mixed Emotions: Beyond Fear and Hatred in International Conflict,” Theory & Event 17, no. 3 (September 2014).
“Critical Dialogue: Sharon Erickson Nepstad and Wendy Pearlman on Nonviolent Protest,” Perspectives on Politics 10, 4 (December 2012), pp. 993-998.
“Security and Suspicion: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel (by Juliana Ochs).” American Ethnologist 39, no. 2 (May 2012), pp. 454-455.
“Authoritarianism in an Age of Democratization (by Jason Brownlee),” Comparative Political Studies, 42, no. 3 (March 2009), pp. 470-473.
“Palestinian Refugee Repatriation: Global Perspectives (edited by Michael Dumper),” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 41, no. 1 (Winter 2009), pp. 127-128.
“Middle East Dilemma (edited by Michael Hudson),” Arab Studies Journal 7/8, no. 2/1 (Fall 1999/Spring 2000), pp. 129-131.