Here you can find a record of almost all my publications – from scholarly journal articles to newspaper articles – listed with the most recent first. In most cases there is either a downloadable pdf or a link to the publication itself. You can search by publication type (academic, non-academic, book reviews etc), by theme and by keyword. Enjoy!
In a fascinating new book on the late Black Sabbath frontman, author Keith Khan-Harris opens up on a life led at 100 miles an hour - and the legacy Ozzy left behind
Publication Date: May 29, 2026
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Interviews
Sarah Chaker main author
Publication Date: May 28, 2026
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Book chapters
With Imke von Helden
Publication Date: May 28, 2026
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Book chapters
Golders Green, the pervasive antisemitism, and what our experience is worth
Publication Date: May 21, 2026
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
The Iran war is also the death of sociology.
Publication Date: March 11, 2026
Theme: Israel/Palestine
Category: Journalism and essays
Its transformation from an insular ‘us and them’ holy day to a universalist celebration is something of a miracle
Publication Date: December 8, 2025
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
Keith Kahn-Harris celebrates a sometimes glorious, occasionally infuriating, always baffling album that remains entirely of its time
Publication Date: October 28, 2025
Theme: Music
Category: Journalism and essays, Music reviews
Carlos Acosta’s ballet celebrates a band that is woven into Birmingham’s cultural soul
Publication Date: October 1, 2025
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Journalism and essays, Music reviews
Publication Date: July 9, 2025
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Journalism and essays, Music reviews
Keith Kahn-Harris, author of Everyday Jews: Why the Jewish people are not who you think they are, questions, with a hint of provocation, this strange and alienating Jewish tendency to want to make themselves indispensable to the world. What if the best response to antisemitism was ultimately to claim the right to frivolity, to allow oneself a perfectly superfluous existence?
[French and Italian translations also available]
[French and Italian translat
Publication Date: July 3, 2025
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
And given how innovation works in culture today, does it even matter if they are?
Publication Date: June 30, 2025
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Journalism and essays
Posting Pastor Niemöller’s “First they came for…” on Facebook doesn’t make you Pastor Niemöller
Publication Date: June 23, 2025
Theme: Israel/Palestine, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
A woman tries to cling on to her parent’s Judeo-Arabic language – and the food, feeling and history that goes with it
Publication Date: April 19, 2025
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Book reviews
'Can we ever be ordinary and insignificant?' asks sociologist Keith Kahn-Harris
Publication Date: March 23, 2025
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
English writer and sociologist Keith Kahn-Harris is concerned that Jews' prominence in the world is turning them into a target - but not in the way you think. In his new book, 'Everyday Jews,' he battles for the right of his people to experience ordinary life
Publication Date: March 22, 2025
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Interviews
Keith Khan-Harris finds meaning in the lives of everyday Jews
Publication Date: March 17, 2025
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
Interview
Publication Date: March 16, 2025
Theme: Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Interviews
Opposing ideas about antisemitism threaten to split the anti-racist movement. A new book seeks to bridge the divides
[Review of Rachel Shabi's 'Off-White']
Publication Date: Spring 2025
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate
Category: Book reviews, Journalism and essays
