Book:
Israel in Africa: Security, Migration, Interstate Politics, (Zed Books, 2020).
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with Freddie Carver, ‘International Organisations and “Local” Networks: Localisation and Refugee Participation in the Ethiopian-South Sudanese Borderlands,’ Refugee Survey Quarterly 41(1) (2022): 1–25.
‘From discursive resistance to new genealogies: rethinking Israelite identities in Africa through the case of NuerChristian Zionists,’ Africa 91(5) (2021): 832–51.
‘Negotiating the sounds of born-again Christianity: aesthetic provocations in Ethiopia’s western periphery,’ Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief 17(4) (2021): 490–516.
‘“One People, One Struggle”: Anya-Nya propaganda and the Israeli Mossad in Southern Sudan, 1969-1971,’ Journal of Eastern African Studies 12(3) (2018): 428-453.
‘The Act of Reading – Children’s Rights, Children’s Literature and Transitional Justice,’ International Journal of Transitional Justice 9(3) (2015): 507-516.
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Book reviews:
Affective trajectories: religion and emotion in African cityscapes, (edited by Hansjörg Dilger, Astrid Bochow, Marian Burchardt, and Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon, Durham: Duke University Press), Reading Religion (2021).
In the Shadow of Moses: new Jewish movements in Africa and the diaspora, (edited by Daniel Lis, William F. S. Miles and Tudor Parfitt, Los Angeles CA: Tsehai Publishers), Africa 89(2) (2019): 416-417.
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Recent articles and essays in English:
‘Appeasing disgruntled critics,’ Africa is a Country, 30 July 2021.
‘Healing, Protestantism and Cattle Sacrifice in the Ethiopian-South Sudanese Borderlands,’ Symeon 11 (July 2021): 18–21.
‘Kwame Nkrumah and Israel,’ Africa is a Country, 2 June 2021.
‘The politics of blessings,’ Africa is a Country, 19 February 2021.
‘Not a new dawn: Why the Israel-Sudan deal was a long time coming,’ +972 Magazine, 30 October 2020.
‘Israel in Africa: Transactional Politics and Medium-sized States,’ African Arguments, 10 July 2020.
‘Why is Israel in Africa?,’ Africa is a Country, 26 March 2020.
‘How Israel’s Secret Refugee Deals Collapsed in the Light of Day,’ Refugees Deeply, 3 May 2018.
‘Birth registration of South Sudanese refugee children: the view from Uganda,’ Citizenship Rights in Africa Initiative, 04 December 2017.
‘Israel’s High Court allows transfers of Sudanese and Eritreans to Rwanda and Uganda but strikes down indefinite imprisonment: an analysis,’ Justice matters in Africa, 21 September 2017.
‘Call it a comeback: Israel’s grand “return” to Africa,’ African Arguments, 03 August 2017.
‘South Sudan’s New Generation of Pop Stars Confront the Civil War in Their Music,’ OkayAfrica, 13 January 2017.
‘A Resource, a Hindrance: The Border Between the two Sudans from the Perspective of Refugees from Sudan’s Blue Nile State,’ Border Criminologies, 23 November 2016.
‘Five Years of War in Blue Nile State: Hope and Despair between the Two Sudans,’ Ifriqiya: Africa Research and Analysis 2(6) (September, 2016): 1-6.
‘Regional and local tensions intertwine in Gambella, as violence claims hundreds of lives,’ Justice matters in Africa, 02 May 2016.
‘No option but Europe,’ Forced Migration Review 51 (January, 2016): 36 (with Olivia Bueno).
‘In Ethiopia’s Gambella region, refugee encampment policies meet a complex reality on the ground,’ Justice matters in Africa, 29 December 2015.
‘Born In Israel And Deported To South Sudan: Documenting Exile,’ OkayAfrica, 24 November 2015.
‘Israeli District Court Decision a Set Back for Ending Transfers and Imprisonment of Asylum Seekers,’ Justice matters in Africa, 17 November 2015.
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Some reports and policy papers:
‘Mobile Livelihoods: borderland dynamics between Uganda and South Sudan,’ Rift Valley Institute, March 2022.
with Freddie Carver and Elizabeth Deng, ‘More Local is Possible: Recommendations for enhancing local humanitarian leadership and refugee participation in the Gambella refugee response,’ Oxfam International, December 2021.
with Lucy Hovil, ‘Uganda’s Refugee Policies: The History, the Politics, the Way Forward,’ International Refugee Rights Initiative, October 2018.
‘Eritrean refugees in Kampala and the Ugandan asylum system,’ International Refugee Rights Initiative, July 2018.
‘Protection politics: Preventing illegal extraditions, refoulement and cross-border persecution in East Africa,’ International Refugee Rights Initiative, January 2018.
‘Departures of asylum seekers from Israel to Rwanda and Uganda,’ Hotline for Refugees and Migrants and ASSAF, January 2018, (unpublished report in Hebrew).
‘A Crisis Normalised: Civilian perspectives on the conflict in Sudan’s Blue Nile State,’ International Refugee Rights Initiative, September 2016.
‘“I was left with nothing”: “Voluntary” departures of asylum seekers from Israel to Rwanda and Uganda,’ International Refugee Rights Initiative, September 2015.
Yotam Gidron 