Prof. Eppel focuses on modern Iraq and modern Syria; Kurdish history and  the Kurdish nationalism, international relations in the Middle East, the Israeli-Arab relations, the Russian involvement in the Middle East, the middle class in the Arab states, the domestic politics and the shaping of the foreign policy in the Arab states.

 Selected Publications

Books

The Palestine Conflict in the History of Modern Iraq. London: Frank Cass, 1994.

Iraq from Monarchy to Tyranny, From the Hashimites to the Rise of
Saddam. Gainesville, Florida, University Press of Florida, 2004.

עראק מלוכה, מהפכה, רודנות רעננה, האניברסיטה הפתוחה, 2005

A People Without a State, The Kurds from the rise of Islam to the dawn of
Nationalism. Austin, University of Texas Press, 2016.

Articles

“התפתחות ההסכסוך הערבי-יהודי ממקומי לאזורי – הרקע לצמיחת מעורבותן של עראק וסוריה
בארץ ישראל 1936-1939″ עיונים בתקומת ישראל כרך 7(1997), ע”ע 39-74

“The Elite, The Effendiyya, and the Growth of Nationalism and Pan-Arabism in Hashemite Iraq 1921-1958”, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 30 (1998), pp. 227-250;

“בין אפנדיה לאליטה בעראק המלוכנית: פוליטיקאים ומשטר בשבי סתירות חברתיות” המזרח החדש כרך מ”א תש”ס 2000, ע”ע 117-131.

“Fadhil al-Jamali Government in Iraq, 1953-1954” Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 34 (1999), pp. 319-442;

“The Demise of the Kurdish Emirates: The Impact of Ottoman Reforms and International Relations in Kurdistan during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century”, Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 44(2008), pp. 237-252;

“Note about the term Effendiyya in the history of the Middle East”, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 41(2009), pp. 535-539.

“The Kurdish Leadership in Post Saddam Iraq” in Amatzia Baram, Ronen Zaidel and
Ahim Rhoda (eds.), Iraq between Occupations Perspectives from 1920 to Present.
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. 79-103.

“The Road of the Arab States to the 1948 War in Palestine”, Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 48 (2012), pp. 1-30.

“Kurdish Nationalism’s Moment of Truth”, Current History, Vol. 113, No. 767
(December 2014), pp. 362-368.

“Historical Setting: The Roots of Modern Kurdish Nationalism” in Ofra Bengio(ed.), Kurdish Awakening Nation Building in Fragmented Homeland. (Austin, Texas University Press, 2014), pp. 37-62.

“The Kurdish Emirates – Obstacles or Precursors of Kurdish Nationalism” in: Michael Gunter (ed.), Routledge Handbook of the Kurds (New York, Routledge, 2019).