Boulos, Issa. Palestinian Musical Narratives from 1936 to 1971: Modernity, Culture, and Identity. Austin: University of Texas Press. (Forthcoming Book)
Boulos, Issa. “Mījānā.” Encyclopedia of Islam, 4th edition. E.J. Brill. (Article) (Forthcoming)
Modernity, Tradition, and Identity: The Transformation of Music-Making in Palestine, 1936 to 1948.
Boulos, Issa, and David McDonald. “Palestinian Music.” The Routledge Handbook on Palestine, Amneh Badran, Mick Dumper, Abigail Grace (Eds), 2025.
Boulos, Issa. “Musical Diplomacy in Mandate Palestine from 1936 to 1948.” Music, Soft Power and Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East: Geopolitical Reconfigurations for the 21st Century, Maria Rijo Lopes da Cunha, Jonathan H. Shannon, Virginia Danielson, and Søren Møller Sørensen (Eds), 2024.
Boulos, Issa, and Louis Brehony. “The ‘Disappearance’ of George Kirmiz: Unravelling a Palestinian Musical Mystery.” Palestine Chronicle, The Palestine Chronicle, 13 Oct. 2022.
Boulos, Issa, and Virginia Danielson, Anne K. Rasmussen. Music in Arabia: Perspectives on Heritage, Mobility, and Nation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2021.
Boulos, Issa, and Yassine Ayari. “The Art of the Ṭambūra in Qatar: African Identity Reimagined.” Music in Arabia: Perspectives on Heritage, Mobility, and Nation, edited by Issa Boulos et al., Indiana University Press, 2021, pp. 138–59. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv21hrhz3.14. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
Boulos, Issa. The Palestinian music-making experience in the West Bank, the 1920s to 1959: Nationalism, colonialism, and identity. 2020. Leiden University, PhD dissertation, 2020.
Boulos, Issa. “Reflections on the repercussions of cultural policy since the first Maqam Conference in Cairo.” al- Maʾthūrāt al-Shaʿbiyya, 23 Jan. 2014, pp. 7-25. (In Arabic)
Boulos, Issa. “Negotiating the Elements: Palestinian Freedom Songs from 1967 to 1987.” Palestinian Music and Song: Expression and Resistance since 1900, edited by Moslih Kanaaneh et al., Indiana University Press, 2013, pp. 53–66. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt16gzf3q.9. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
Jalal, Nader, et al. “A Musical Catastrophe: The Direct Impact of the Nakba on Palestinian Musicians and Musical Life.” Palestinian Music and Song: Expression and Resistance since 1900, edited by Heather Bursheh et al., Indiana University Press, 2013, pp. 37–52.
Boulos, Issa, and Jāmiʻat Bīr Zayt. Maʿhad Idwārd Saʿīd al-Waṭanī lil-Mūsīqa Aghānīnā: 100 Ughniya Lā Budda Minhā Lil-madāris al-ʿArabīyah. Maʿhad Idwārd Saʿīd al-Waṭanī lil-Mūsīqa, Jāmiʿat Bīr Zayt, 2008.
Boulos, Issa. “Palestinian musical heritage, the past and the current in Arab American communities.” Arab American National Museum (2005-), et al. Diwan: A Forum for the Arts 1, March 31 – April 1, 2006. Part D. Avida Productions, 2006.