Shokeid has conducted research and published his work on North African immigrants in Israel and on the Arab residents who remained in Jaffa after the 1948 War. While a Visiting Fellow at Queens College in New York City from 1982–84, he conducted research among Israeli emigrants in New York. A few years later (and during the 1990s) he conducted research at Congregation Beth Simhat Torah, the gay and lesbian synagogue in Greenwich Village. Shokeid has since published multiple works on the United States, including (during the 2000s) on the New York City gay, lesbian, bisexual and trangendered Community Center in Greenwich Village and the various voluntary associations that met there.