Offers detailed accounts of Jews in Tunisia and Morocco and Arabs in Israel in the 1970s, focusing on ways the identity, political culture, and institutional character of each group is shaped by its status as a religious minority in a non-secular state

Compares the three communities in the Middle East offering insights into how the character and behavior of a religious minority is shaped by its political environment

Considers the nature and implications of religious minorities responses to different circumstances, focusing on community and individual levels of analysis and original public opinion surveys

1. Chapter 1 Jews in Tunisia and Morocco and Arabs in Israel: Defining Attributes and Foundations for Comparative Analysis.- 2. Chapter 2 Ethnic Change and Non-assimilating Minority Status: The Case of Jews in Tunisia and Morocco and Arabs in Israel.- 3. Chapter 3 The Identity of Religious Minorities in Non-secular States: Jews in Tunisia and Morocco and Arabs in Israel.- 4. Chapter 4 The Protection of Minorities in the Middle East: The Case of Jews in Tunisia and Morocco and Arabs in Israel in the 1970s.- 5. Chapter 5 A Cultural Basis for Arab-Israeli Accommodation.- 6. Chapter 6 Secularism in the Middle East: Reflections on Recent Palestinian Proposals.- 7. Chapter 7 Political Change and the Religious Revival in Tunisia.- 8. Chapter 8 Israel and Morocco: The Political Calculus of a 'Moderate' Arab State.- 9. Chapter 9 The Jews of North Africa.- 10. Chapter 10 The Political Culture of Jews in Tunisia and Morocco.- 11. Chapter 11 Minorities in Retreat: The Jews of the Maghreb.- 12. Chapter 12 Israel's Arabs and the Palestinian Problem.- 13. Chapter 13 Arabs in Israel.- 14. Chapter 14 Arab Women's Emancipation in Israel.- 15. Chapter 15 Israel's Arab Citizens: The Continuing Struggle.- 16. Chapter 16 Reflections, 2019