Ahmad Ashkar is a researcher in comparative religions and an Arabic-Hebrew translator. He is the author of several academic articles and four books: The Status of Women in the Tanakh, The New Testament and the Quran (2011); The Story of Lot, His Daughters and Others in the Tanakh (2011); Religious Symbols in the Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish (2005); Self Destruction- The Nazareth Example: Conflict In Shihab Eddin Theater (2000). He also writes in Arabic newspapers and journals.