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Books

, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020 (winner of the BISA Susan Strange Best Book Prize for 2020).

With Maha El Said and Lena Meari (eds.) , London: Zed, 2015.

With Sophie Richter-Devroe (eds.). , Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2014.

With Nadje Al-Ali. , Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.

With Nadje Al-Ali (eds). . London: Zed, 2009.

. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2007.

Journal articles

With Columba Achilleos-Sarll, "Sun, sea and sexual violence: the political economy of party tourism", International Affairs, 2025; vol. 101, issue 4, (open access)

With Hala Shoman, Ashjan Ajour, Sara Ababneh, Afaf Jabiri, Jemima Repo and Maryam Aldossari, "Feminist Silences in the Face of Israel's Genocide Against the Palestinian People: A Call for Decolonial Praxis Against Complicity", Gender, Work & Organization, March 2025, (open access)

With Dalia Said Mostafa & Dina Rezk 'New directions in the study of popular culture and politics in the Middle East and North Africa', British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 48:1, 2021, pp. 1-6, DOI: (open access)

'Popular Culture, Gender, and Revolution in Egypt', Journal of Middle East Women鈥檚 Studies, vol. 17, iss. 1, 2021, pp. 137-146,

'Making Sense of the Egyptian Revolution in and through Popular Culture', International Journal of Middle East Studies, 52:3, 2020, pp. 531-535,  

With Yasmin Chilmeran, 'The Geopolitics of Social Reproduction and Depletion: The Case of Iraq and Palestine', Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 26:4, 2019, pp. 586–607,

With Dina Rezk, '', Security Dialogue, 50: 3, 2019, pp. 239-256.

With Katherine Allison, 'The "War on Terror": 10 Years of Feminist Engagement', Critical Studies on Terrorism, 6:2, 2013, pp.312-312.

'Weaponising Feminism for the "War on Terror", versus Employing Strategic Silence', Critical Studies on Terrorism, 6: 2, 2013, pp. 327-331.

'The 鈥淎rab Spring鈥� and the Israel-Palestine Conflict: Settler Colonialism and Resistance in the Midst of Geopolitical Upheavals', Ortado臒u Et眉tleri, 5: 1, 2013, pp.9-40.

'Reconceptualizing Gender, Reinscribing Racial–Sexual Boundaries in International Security: The Case of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on 鈥淲omen, Peace and Security鈥�'. , 57: 4, 2013, pp. 772-783.

'The Gender Logics of Resistance to the "War on Terror": Constructing Sex-Gender Difference through the Erasure of Patriarchy in the Middle East', 33:10, 2012, pp. 1821-1836.

With Sophie Richter-Devroe, 'Introduction: Critically Examining UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace and Security', special issue of ('Critically Examining UNSCR 1325') 13: 4, 2011, pp. 489-503.

'Iraqi Women and UNSCR 1325: An Interview with Sundus Abbas, Director of the Iraqi Women's Leadership Institute, Baghdad', International Feminist Journal of Politics 13: 4, 2011, pp. 612-615.

With Nadje Al-Ali. 'Between Nationalism and Women's Rights: The Kurdish Women's Movement in Iraq', 4: 3, 2011, pp. 339-355.

With Nadje Al-Ali. 鈥�Women鈥檚 Organizing and the Conflict in Iraq since 2003鈥�, Feminist Review, 88, 2008, pp. 74-85.

'The Queen Boat case in Egypt: sexuality, national security and state sovereignty', Review of International Studies, 33, January 2007, pp. 129-44.

With Nadje Al-Ali. 鈥�Researching Women in Post-invasion Iraq: Negotiating 鈥淭ruths鈥� and Deconstructing Dominant Discourses鈥�, Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Interfaith Studies (BRIIFS), 8: 1&2, 2006, pp. 193-214.

鈥�Identity, Culture and Democratisation: The Case of Egypt鈥�, New Political Science, 27: 1, March 2005, pp. 69–86.

鈥�Bringing Politics Back In: Examining the Link between Globalization and Democratization鈥�, Review of International Political Economy, 11: 2, May 2004, pp. 311–336.

鈥楿nderstanding Political Transformation in Egypt鈥�, Journal of Mediterranean Studies, 14: 1/2, 2004, pp. 237–262.

鈥�Maintaining the Moral Economy: Egyptian State–Labor Relations in an Era of Economic Liberalization鈥�, Arab Studies Journal 8:2/9:1, fall/spring 2000/2001, pp. 111–29.

Edited special issues of journals/journal sections

Conversations Section: Why Palestine is a Feminist Issue: A Reckoning with Western Feminism in a Time of Genocide, International Feminist Journal of Politics, vol. 27, iss. 1, (open access)

Special Issue: Politics and Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa: Beyond Domination and Resistance, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, co-edited with Dalia Mostafa and Dina Rezk, vol. 48, no. 1, 2021.

Conversations Section: The 鈥渨ar on terror鈥�: 10 years of feminist engagement, Conversations Section, co-edited with Katherine Alison, Critical Terrorism Studies, Vol. 6, no. 2, 2011, pp. 312-335.

Special Issue: Critically Evaluating UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, International Feminist Journal of Politics, co-edited with Sophie Richter-Devroe, vol. 13, no. 4, 2011, pp. 490-647.

Archives curated

: a digital archive of interviews with women activists in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. Based on research funded by a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship (2013-2014).

: a digital archive of multimedia that examines the relationship between politics and popular culture in the 2011 Egyptian revolution and its aftermath. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Council (AHRC).

Book chapters

'Gender and Politics in the Middle East', in Larbi Sadiki, ed. Routledge Handbook of Middle East Politics, Abingdon: Routledge, 2020.

'Genre et transformations sociopolitiques dans le monde arabe depuis 2010' in Frederic Thomas, ed. Alternatives Sud: , Louvain-la-Neuve: Centre Tricontinental, 2018.

With Nadje Al-Ali, 'Gender, protest and political transition in the Middle East and North Africa', in Jill Steans and Daniela Tepe-Belfrage, eds. , Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2016.

With Nadje Al-Ali, 'Positionalities, intersectionalities and transnational feminism in researching women in post-invasion Iraq', in Annick Wibben, ed. , London and New York: Routledge, 2016.

鈥楢fter 25 January Revolution: Democracy or Authoritarianism in Egypt鈥�, in Reem Abou-El-Fadl, editor, . London and New York: Routledge, 2015.

With Nadje Al-Ali, 'Iraq's Triple Challenge: State, Nation and Democracy', in P Burnell, V Randall & L Rackner, Politics in the Developing World, Oxford: OUP, 2010.

鈥�Human Rights NGOs and the Foreign Funding Debate in Egypt鈥�, in Anthony Tirado-Chase & Amr Hamzawy, eds. Human Rights in the Arab World, Philadephia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006, pp. 114–126.

鈥楬egemonie et contre-hegemonie en Egypte: les ONG militantes, la societe civile et l鈥橢tat鈥�, in Sarah Ben N茅fissa, et al (eds.) ONG et gouvernance dans le monde arabe. Paris: Karthala and CEDEJ, 2004, pp. 167–196.

Podcasts and videos

The 2024 Coventry Lord Mayor鈥檚 Peace Lecture, 6 November, Coventry Cathedral, 鈥溾��.

鈥溾�� hosted by the LSE Middle East Centre, 9 October 2024.

, on-line discussion, organised by the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen's University Belfast, 8 March 2024.

Conversation with Civic Leicester, December 2023.

, On Ethics and the Responsibility to Counter Repression, November 2023.

, in conversation with Dina Hassan, University of Oklahoma, Journal of Women's History podcast series, 8 April 2021.

, in conversation with Nadje Al-Ali and Banu Ozkazanc-Pan, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, 30 March 2021.

, in conversation with Aaron Rock-Singer, Middle East Studies Lecture Series, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 5 October 2020

Decolonising Women and Gender in Middle East StudiesLink opens in a new window, in conversation with Lucia Sorbera, University of Sydney School of Languages and Cultures podcast, University of Sydney, 13 October 2020.

, podcast of lecture at LSE, 20 January 2016.

'', podcast of lecture at the British Institute in Amman, 19 May 2015.

Blogs, on-line articles and other resources

"", E-IR, 25 November 2025.

, Jadaliyya.com, 27 April 2021.

, University of California Press blog, 13 October 2020.

, Council for British Research in the Levant blog, 6 October 2020.

, Think Development, 糖心TV Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development, 13 July 2020.

, Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative, Jadaliyya.com, 27 May 2020.

With Dina Rezk. , The Globe Post, 14 August 2019

With Dina Rezk, 鈥樷��, Security Dialogue blog, 14 March 2019.

, Jadaliyya, 25 January 2016.

', Jadaliyya.com, 5 August 2015.

'', 7iber.com, 23 May 2015.

, Jadaliyya, 4 February 2015.

'', openDemocracy, 2 February 2015.

, Politics Reconsidered, 25 January 2014.

' ', The Conversation, 13 November 2013.

, 糖心TV Knowledge Centre, June 2013.

, Jadaliyya, 6 May 2013.

, Jadaliyya, 12 June 2012.

'', Jadaliyya, 10 May 2012.

, Jadaliyya, 29 June 2011.

With Nadje Al-Ali, 'Conspiracy of Near Silence: Violence against Iraqi Women', Middle East Report, 258, Spring 2011, pp. 34-37, 48.

With Nadje Al-Ali, 'Women in Iraq: beyond the rhetoric', , Summer 2006, pp. 18-23.

, Middle East Report Online, 17 August 2000.

Working papers, policy briefings

"", written evidence submitted to the UK Foreign Affairs Committee, 31 December 2024.

Contributing author on the 糖心TV Student-Staff Solidarity Network report, 鈥溾��, October 2024.

, Egypt Solidarity Initiative, 11 May 2014.

With Sophie Richter-Devroe, , Policy Brief for the Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre, 12 March 2013.

, UEA Papers in European and International Studies, WP 3/2005, 27 pp.

Book reviews

Review of Catherine Charrett's The EU, Hamas and the 2006 Palestinian Elections, in International Politics 60, 2023, pp. 749–753.

Review of Sara Salem's Anti-colonial Afterlives in Cairo, , 10 June 2021.

Review of Sophie Richter-Devroe鈥檚, Women鈥檚 Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance and Survival, Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies, Vol. 19, No. 1, 2020, pp. 121-123.

Review of Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War by Cynthia Enloe (Reviewed for The Middle East Journal, winter 2011)

The Politics of Women鈥檚 Rights in Iran by Arzoo Osanloo (Reviewed for Journal of Gender Studies, December 2010)

Militarization and Violence against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East: A Palestinian Case Study by Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian (Reviewed for International Journal of Human Rights, vol. 15, no. 8, 2010, pp. 1378-1382)

鈥楤rothers鈥� or Others: Propriety and Gender for Muslim Arab Sudanese in Egypt, by Anita H. Fabos (Reviewed for African Affairs, July 2009)