Asher Susser spent the 2010-2011 academic year on sabbatical as the Israel Studies Professor at the Center for Judaic Studies, at the University of Arizona in Tucson. In January 2011, he addressed the Florida Society for Middle East Studies, at Florida Atlantic University, on Israel and the Palestinians. In February, he spoke at the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona (U of A) on "Identity Politics in Jordan, "and delivered the Pozez Memorial Lecture at the Center for Jewish Studies at U of A, on "Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians; One State, Two States, or Three?"

 In March, Prof. Susser participated in a conference on "The Shifting Sands of Hegemonic Powers in the Middle East," at Northwestern University, where he delivered a paper on "The Middle East of the 21st Century: The Changing Regional Architecture." In April, he spoke at the Center for Near Eastern Studies at the U of A on "Middle Eastern Upheaval--Alternative Analytical Paradigms." In May, he delivered a lecture on "Identity Politics in Jordan" at the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies at the University of California in San Diego.

In June, his paper on "Jordan 2011: Uneasy Lies the Head," was published by the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University in their Middle East Brief series. His latest book, Israel, Jordan and Palestine; The Two-State Imperative, was accepted for publication by the University Press of New England and is scheduled to appear in the Fall of 2011.

email: susser@post.tau.ac.il

Books

The Rise of Hamas and the Crisis of Secularism in the Arab World (monograph), Essay Series, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University (February 2010).

Jordan: Case Study of a Pivotal State (2000).

Political Biography of Jordan’s Prime Minister Wasfi al- Tall (1994).

Editor, Challenges to the Cohesion of the Arab State (editor, 2008).

Editor, Six Days-Thirty Years: New Perspectives on the Six Day War (1999).

Co-editor, The Hashemites in the Modern Arab World (1995) and At the Core of the Conflict: The Intifada (1992, in Hebrew).

(back to top)

Journal Articles (a selected list)

"Partition and the Arab Palestinian Minority in Israel" (2009).

"Jordan: Preserving Domestic Order in a Setting of Regional Turmoil" (2008).

"The Sunni-Shi'i Shift of the 21st Century" (Hebrew) (2008).

"Jordan’s Maze of Identities: Tribal, Jordanian, Palestinian and Islamic" (2008).

"Israel, the Arabs and Palestine: Facing Crucial Decisions,"
The Jerusalem Review, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2006-7), pp. 57-67.

"The Decline of The Arabs"

(back to top)

Chapters in Books (a selected list)

“Jordan,” in B. Maddy-Weitzman (ed.), Middle East Contemporary Survey, 1999 (Boulder: Westview Press, 2001), pp. 337-368.

“The Palestine Liberation Organization,” in I. Rabinovich and H. Shaked (eds.), Middle East Contemporary Survey, 1984-85 (Boulder: Westview Press, 1987), pp. 181-233.

(back to top)