Conflict Resolution in the Middle East; Territorial and Ethnic Conflict in the Middle East; Colonialism and Empire in the Middle East; Minorities and Indigenous Peoples' Politics; Bedouin Tribes and the modern Middle Eastern State; Ottoman and British Rule in the frontiers: Southern Palestine, Transjordan and Sinai; Oslo Accords and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; The Arab Political Parties in Israel; The Islamic movement and Jerusalem.

Dr. Mansour Nasasra is a Senior Lecturer in Middle East politics and International Relations at the Department of Politics and Government, Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Before that, he taught at the University of Exeter and Plymouth University (both in the UK), and was a Research Fellow at the Council for British Research in the Levant in East Jerusalem. He is the author of The Naqab Bedouins: A Century of Politics and Resistance, (Columbia University Press, 2017), co-editor of The Naqab Bedouin and Colonialism: New Perspectives (Routledge, 2015), and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook on Middle East Cities (Routledge, 2018). Nasasra also published a number of journal papers on East Jerusalem, Oslo agreements, the Palestinians in Israel and Oslo. His recent work focuses around city networking between Gaza, Bir al Saba, Hebron and Jerusalem

Authored and edited books

1. Nasasra, M. 2017. The Naqab Bedouins: A Century of Politics and Resistance. Columbia University Press, New York.
2.Mansour Nasasra , Sophie- Richter Devroe, Richard Radcliffe , Sarab Abu Rabia, (editors), 2014. The Naqab Bedouin and Colonialism: New Perspectives. Routledge.
3.*Sophie Richter-Devroe, Mansour Nasasra and Richard Ratcliffe (editors), 2016. The Politics of Representation: The Case of the Naqab Bedouin. Holy Land and Palestine Studies, Volume 15 Issue 1. Edinburg University Press, 2016.
4.* Haim Yacobi &Mansour Nasasra (editors) 2019, Routledge Handbook on Middle East Cities, Routledge.
5.*Mansour Nasasra, Mustafa Kabha, Sophie Richter Devroe (editors), 2019. Beersheba District: Political, Social and Economic Dimensions (in Arabic), Dar issaf publications, Jerusalem.

Journal articles:
1.Nasasra, M. 2011 “The Southern Palestine Bedouin and British Mandate Relations 1917-1948: Resistance to Colonialism”, Arab World Geographer, No.4. Vol 14, pp. 305-335.
2.Nasasra, M. 2012 “The Ongoing Judaisation of the Naqab and the Struggle for Recognising the Indigenous Rights of the Arab Bedouin People, Settler Colonial Studies, No. 2, Vol. 1, pp. 81-107.
3.Nasasra, M. 2015 “Ruling the Desert: Ottoman and British Policies towards the Bedouin of the Negev and Transjordan Region, 1900-1948”, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, No. 42, Vol. 3.
*4.Nasasra, M, 2016. "The Southern Palestine Bedouin between Colonialism and Nationalism: Comparing Representations in British Mandatory Documents and Palestinian Newspapers, 1930-1948". Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies, No. 15 Vol 1, pp. 79–95.
*5.Nasasra, M, 2017. "Back to the Land". World Policy Journal, vol. xxxiv, No 4, 2017. SJR
*6.Nasasra, M. 2018. “The politics of claiming and representation: the Islamic movement in Israel”. Journal of Islamic Studies, No.1 Vol. 29, 1-32.
*7. Nasasra, M. 2019. “The Politics of Exclusion and Localization: The Palestinian Minority in Israel and the Oslo Accords”. Ethnopolitics.
*8. O’Conner, K. Larkinᴾᴵ, K. ,Nasasraᴾᴵ, M., Shanksᴾᴵ, K. 2019. “School choice and conflict narratives: active representation among street level bureaucrats in East Jerusalem”. Administration and Society. No. 25, Vol 4, pp. 1-38.
*9. Nasasra, M. 2020. Two Decades of Bedouin Resistance and Survival under the Military rule, 1948-1967, Middle Eastern Studies. No. 1, Vol 56, pp. 64-83.
*10. Nasasra, M& Bellis, E. 2020. The role of Bedouin Youth and Women in Resistance to the Israeli Prawer Plans in the Naqab, Middle East Critique. No. 4, Vol 29, pp. 1-25.

The Politics of Empire in the Middle East.
Ethnic and Territorial Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa.
War and peace in the middle east.