Abbas, R. (2007). The role of the school system in shaping the personality, identity and level of citizenship of its students: An ethnographic case study in two Druze high schools, Bar-Ilan University, 267 pages. (Hebrew).

Supervisors: Prof. Yaacov Iram & Dr. Deborah Court

i.  Authored Books – Published

←Court, D., & Abbas, R. (2022). Insider outsider research: new perspectives on method and meaning. London: Routledge.

This book received a positive review in the journal The Qualitative Report (Q1), 2023, 28(2),  https://doi.org.10.46743/2160-3715/2023.6190

←Abbas, R., & Court, D. (2021). The Israeli Druze community in transition: Between tradition and modernity. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars.

ii.  Edited Books – Published

←Court, D., Abbas, R., Abu Much, R., & Kamal, Z. (Eds.) (2023).  Social justice in multicultural settings: International perspectives. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars.

←Court, D., Abbas, R., & Kamal, Z. (Eds.) (2022). Aspects of social justice in an Arab Israeli teachers’ college: Principles, practices, and politics. Cambridge Scholars.

iii.  Edited Books – Accepted

←Abbas, R. & Hamarshi, H. (2026). Lessons in leadership: The life and work of Zaki Kamal.
Accepted for publication and scheduled for publication in 2026. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars.

i. Published

← Kamal, Z. & Abbas, R. (2025). The loss of deep reading and critical thinking in

education. Curriculum and Teaching, 40(2), 111-120. https://doi.org/10.7459/ct/400208. (SJR H Index 8, Ranking Q4 2024).

←Abbas, R. K. (2025).  An intercultural journey on the yellow brick road. Qualitative Research Journal, Vol. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/QRJ-01-2025-0012. (SJR H index: 28. Ranking: Q2, IF= 0.48).

←Abbas, R & Court, D. (2024). Insider-outsider research, qualitative discovery, and the enhancement of social justice. The Qualitative Report, 20(11), 2750-2760. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2024.7427. (SJR H index: 56. Ranking: Q1, IF= 0.5).

← Kamal, Z. & Abbas, R. (2024). Educational implications of religions as moral systems: The example of Ramadan. Curriculum and Teaching, 39(2), 59-69. https://dio.org/10.7459/ct/390205  (SJR H Index 7, Ranking Q4 2024).

←Abbas, R & Court, D. (2024). Academic publications – Everything you wanted to know. Daruna 51, 11-17. (In Hebrew)

← Abbas, R., Kamal, Z. & Heno, N. (2024). Perceptions and attitudes of educational teams towards treatment and prevention programs for the phenomenon of school violence Arab society, 50, 13-32, Daruna. (In Hebrew)

← Abbas, R., Pataki, S., Folberg, A., Juarez, C. & Ryan, C. (2023).  It’s hard to be everything at once: “Israeli Arab women balancing work, family and community roles. European Journal of Social Sciences Studies, 8(3), 47-66. DIO: 10.46827qejsss.v8i3.1396.

← Abbas, R. (2023).  Hosting an international conference in an Arab Israeli teachers’ college: A reflection on leadership and learning. Journal for Multicultural Education. 17(4), 473-484. https://doi.org/10.1108/JME-03-2023-0019 (SJR H Index 13, Ranking Q1 2022)

←Abbas, R., Abu-Rahmon, N. & Khalifa, R. (2023).  Combined teaching strategies as an attitude changing tool towards inclusive education. Curriculum and Teaching, 38(2), 7-19. https://doi.org/10.7459/ct/38.2.02 (SJR H Index 6, Ranking Q4 2023).

←Sarid, M., Vaknin-Nusbaum, V., Abbas, R., & Dardick, W. (2022). The role of reading skills in statistical literacy among bilingual and native Hebrew-speaking college students. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. 3361-3373. https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2022.2052789 (SJR H index: 52, IF 2022 3.92, Ranking Q1 2021)

←Abbas, R., Pataki, S., Folberg, A., Juarez, C. & Ryan, C. (2022). Separating gender role traditionalism from cultural traditionalism among Arab Israeli Women. Daruna 49, 14-20. (In Hebrew).

←Abbas, R., & Vaknin-Nusbaum, V. (2021). Motivation and attitudes of Israeli Druze schoolchildren toward L2 Hebrew compared to Modern Standard Arabic. Pragmatics and Society, 12(4), 591-611. https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.18056.abb (SJR H index: 14, IF=0.75, Ranking Q2 2021)

←Abbas, R., Abu Hanna, E., Zoabi, Kh., Marey-Sarwan, I., & Abu Ahmad, H. (2021). Real time experience of participants in higher education during the coronavirus: A case study. Curriculum and Teaching, 36(1), 51-70. https://doi.org/10.7459/ct/36.1.05 (SJR H index: 5, Ranking Q4 2021)

←Abbas, R., & Ilaiyan, S. (2021). Is there indeed a commitment in trainee teachers of Israel’s Arab sector to education for multiculturalism? Intercultural Education, 32(3), 311-325. https://doi.org/10.1080/14675986.2021.1882943 (SJR H index: 24. Ranking Q1 2021)

←Abbas, R., Gutermen, O., & Neumann, A. (2021). Why don’t Druze families homeschool? Religion and Spirituality in Society, 11(2), 191-200. https://doi.org/10.18848/2154-8633/CGP/v11i02/191-200 (SJR H index: 3, IF 2021 O.39, Ranking Q2 2021)

←Abbas, R., (2020). How do school-based ceremonies contribute to adolescents’ identity design? A case study in two Druze high schools. Citizenship Teaching and Learning, 15(3), 323-340 (18). https://doi.org/10.1386/ctl_00037_1 (SJR H index: 8, Ranking Q3, 2020)

←Abbas, R., & Court, D. (2020). Inside out or outside in? On the issue of dress for teachers of religion, and the case of the Druze. Religious Education, 115(2), 119-128. https://doi.org/10.1080/00344087.2019.1639877 (SJR H index: 17, , IF=0.27, Ranking Q2 2021).

Mongillo, G., Feola, D., Kaplan, R., Vaknin-Nusbaum, V., & Abbas, R. (2019). Primary teachers’ use of communicative strategies for linguistically diverse learners: A cross-cultural case study. The Language and Literacy spectrum, 29 (1), 5 Ramahttps://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/lls/vol29/iss1/5

Abbas, R., Pataki, S. P., Vaknin-Nusbaum, V., & Ilaiyan, S. (2018). What do they want my life? The perception of parent – child relationships among Druze adolescents in Israel. Journal of Adolescent Research, 34(3), 261-281. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0743558418764088 (SJR. H index: 72. Ranking: Q1-Q2 IF= 0.7).

Abbas, R., Vaknin-Nusbaum, V., Neuman, A., Mongillo, G., Feola, D., & Kaplan, R. (2018). The use of modern standard and spoken Arabic in math lessons: The case of a diglossic language. Culture and Education, 30(4), 730-765.
https://doi.org/10.1080/11356405.2018.1519920 (SJR H index 12. Ranking Q2-Q3 – IF-0.29).

Keller, T., Camardese., A., & Abbas, R. (2017). “We don’t talk about that here”: Teachers, religion, public elementary schools and the embodiment of silence, a national United States and Israel study. Journal of Childhood and Religion, 7, 1-41.

https://mosaic.messiah.edu/edu_ed/27/

Court, D., & Abbas, R. (2015). Future orientation in a traditional society: Higher education and the Israeli Druze. International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society, 5(3),4-17. (SJR H index: 4. Ranking: Q2, IF= 0.14).

Abbas, R. & Court, D. (2015). Two ethnographers embark on a narrative journey. The Qualitative Report, 20(9), 1448-1457. (SJR H index: 56. Ranking: Q1, IF= 0.5).

Court, D., & Abbas, R. (2014). Whose interview is it, anyway? Methodological and ethical challenges of insider-outsider research, multiple languages and dual- researcher cooperation. Qualitative Inquiry, 19(6), 480-488. (SJR H index: 59. Ranking: Q1, IF= 0.69).

Court, D., & Abbas, R. (2014). Will education for tradition be enough in closing circle of secrets? Religious Education, 109(5), 489-506. (SJR H index: 20, Ranking: Q1, IF=0.31).

Abbas, R., & Court, D. (2013). The location of professions curriculum: Heritage, Arabic literature, geography, “Shelah” (Field, Nationality and Society) and land knowledge, in designing the identity and deepening the level of citizenship among adolescent Druze: Ethnographic case study in two Druze schools. Dapim, Study and Research in Education, 55, 59-89. (Hebrew)

Arar, H., Abbas, R., & Aodey, S. (2013). Who’s the manager? Role assistant manager at the Arab schools in Israel: Career, relationship and satisfaction. Studies in Educational Administration and Evaluation, 33, 9-34. (Hebrew).

Abbas, R. (2012). The difference between students who learn in technical school and students who learn in regular school regarding the level of Arab self-estimation. Daruna, 41, 34-42. (Hebrew).

Abbas, R. (2012). Cooperative learning, leading to academic achievement and personal development of relations between heterogeneous classes. Daruna, 40, 22-33. (Hebrew).

Abbas, R., & Court, D. (2012). We cannot move forward unless we preserve us traditions: Women principals as leaders in Israel Druze society. Education and Society, 30(2), 67-82.

Court, D., & Abbas, R. (2011). The view from the bridge: An Israeli Druze woman as guardian of religious tradition and agent of social change. International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society, 1(1), 135-146. (SJR H index: 4. Ranking: Q2, IF= 0.14).

Abbas, R., & Nabwane, M. (2011). Individual learning and its contribution to the development of interaction between teacher and student at school – a case study among fifth grade students. Daruna, 40, 152-175. (Hebrew).

Court, D., & Abbas, R. (2010). The role of Druze high schools in Israel in shaping students’ identity and citizenship. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 5(2),145-162. (SJR H index: 30. Ranking: Q2, IF= 0.41).

ii. Accepted

← Abbas, R. (2026). Motivation to learn Hebrew as a second language, setting goals, and self-regulation in learning among Arab students studying for Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at a teacher training college.
Accepted for publication in Heliyon (Q1).

← Abbas, R., (2026). “Some American women may perceive us as terrorists by the compulsion of our bearded husbands:” Education and the breaking of stereotypes.
Accepted for publication in Educational Practice & Theory.

iii. Submitted – Under review

← Kamal, Z. & Abbas, R. K. (2026). Education and law: The views of education students in an Arab Israeli teachers’ college.
Submitted to Qualitative Research in Education.

Pataki, S.P., Abbas, R., Shaw, K. & Taha, I. (2025). Future hope: Dialogue between Israeli Arab and U.S. women.
Submitted to Psychology of Women Quarterly (Q1).

Articles in Preparation

Halifa, R., Moros, W., Asadi, A., Rizek, S. Abulil, A. & Abbas, R. Exploring variability in language learning and study strategy implementation in Arab- Israeli elementary schools.

Abbas, R.  The epistemology of knowing the other

Salman, E., Kamal, Z., Hamarshi, H. & Abbas, R. Navigating the innovative digital frontier: The teacher’s role in the ethical implications, challenges, and opportunities of implementing AI in education.

i. Published

← Abbas, R. (2026). The qualitative eye: administration as cultural process in the Arab Israeli college. Accepted for publication in A. Akande (Ed.) Applied cross-cultural research today. Rethinking research across borders and nations. Chapter 20. Springer.

← Abbas, R. (2024). The community good as global education policy. In J. Zajda (Ed.) Globalisation, education, policy, and curricula Issues. Springer Nature. (pp.531-540). DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-67667-3_29

←Abbas, R. (2023). Family communication styles and self-image of Israeli Druze adolescents: Implications for social justice. In D. Court, R. Abbas, R. Abu Much, & Z. Kamal Z. (Eds.) Social justice in multicultural settings: International perspectives. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars (pp. 365-377).

←Abbas, R, Pataki, S. (2023). Diving into difference: Developing students’ understanding of diversity through personal reflection and active learning in the classroom In D. Court, R. Abbas, R. Abu Much, & Z. Kamal Z. (Eds.) Social justice in multicultural settings: International perspectives. Cambridge Scholars. (pp. 243-253).

←Abbas, R. (2022). Social justice and academic integration among minorities: Two contradictory concepts? In D. Court, R. Abbas, & Z. Kamal (Eds.), Aspects of social justice in an Arab Israeli teachers’ college: Principles, practices and politics.  Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars (pp. 19-28)

Vaknin-Nusbaum, V., Sabah, S., & Abbas, R. (2018). The contribution of morphological awareness in Arabic reading comprehension. In B. Makhoul & E. Olshtain, (Eds.). Development of language among Arabic speakers in a multilingual society (pp. 45-66).  MOFET Institute.

Abbas, R., Ilaiyan, S., & Zedan, R. (2015). Trainees’ perceptions of multi-cultural education in the Arab Academic College of Education in Israel- Haifa. In Kh. Arar & E. Keinan (Eds.), Identity, narrative and multiculturalism in Arab education in Israel (pp. 265-298). Haifa: Pardes. (Hebrew).

Ilaiyan, S., Toren, Z., & Abbas, R. (2017). Teacher training in the Arab sector in Israel: The story of the Arab Academic College of Education in Israel, Haifa. In. M. Ben-Peretz & S. Feiman-Nemser (Eds.), The role of ideology and political movements in designing teacher education programs (Chapter 3). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield with the MOFET institute.

Abbas, R. (2017). Running between the raindrops: Research, culture, and my life in two worlds. In D. Court, Qualitative research and intercultural understanding: Conducting qualitative research in multicultural settings (pp. 93-97). Routledge.