Essays and Reviews

• “Access For Whom? On Gaining Permission to Narrate Egypt’s Past.” Literary Hub (January 23, 2023).

• “Egypt’s Environmental History Offers a Warning for COP27.” Washington Post (November 7, 2022).

• “A Middle Eastern Indigenous Critique?” Book Forum Review of David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021). The Immanent Frame (August 25, 2022).

• “How the Greek Revolution of 1821 Led to the Global System of Nation-States.” Review of Mark Mazower, The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe (New York: Penguin Press, 2021). New York Times Book Review (November 16, 2021).

• “Columbus’ Fear of Islam, Rooted in Europe’s Crusades, Shaped His View of Native Americans.” Los Angeles Times (October 11, 2021).

• “Believers Without Borders.” Review of Jonathan Laurence, Coping with Defeat: Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism, and the Modern State (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021). Wall Street Journal (July 6, 2021).

• “How the Specter of Islam Fueled European Colonization in the Americas.” Literary Hub (December 17, 2020).

• “Why Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Love Affair with the Ottoman Empire Should Worry The World.” Time (September 3, 2020).

• “The Ottoman Sultan who Changed America.” Washington Post (August 20, 2020).

• “An Imagination of Muslims and Native Americans.” The American (August 20, 2020).

• “The Long History of Blaming the Devout During a Plague.” Literary Hub (June 15, 2020).

• Review of James L. Hevia, Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018). Featured Review. American Historical Review 124 (2019).

• “Is the West Really the Best?” Review of J. C. Sharman, Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019). New York Times Book Review (March 3, 2019).

• “Travelling Food: The Global Pasts of Egyptian Cuisine.” Rawi 10 (2019).

• “Old World Order.” Review of John Julius Norwich, Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017). New York Times Book Review (May 5, 2017).

• “Dogs in Ancient Islamic Culture.” Oxford University Press Blog (July 13, 2017).

• Review of Benjamin Reilly, Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2015). Bulletin of the History of Medicine 90 (2016).

• “England’s Muslim Monarch.” Review of Jerry Brotton, The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam (New York: Viking, 2016). Wall Street Journal (November 5-6, 2016).

• Review of Basheer Ahmad Masri, Les animaux en Islam, trans. Sébastien Sarméjeanne (Paris: Droits des Animaux, 2015). Les cahiers de l’Islam (September 8, 2015).

• Review of H. Erdem Çıpa and Emine Fetvacı, eds., Writing History at the Ottoman Court: Editing the Past, Fashioning the Future (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013). Journal of Arabic Literature 45 (2014).

• Review of Baki Tezcan, The Second Ottoman Empire: Political and Social Transformation in the Early Modern World (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010). Journal of Interdisciplinary History 42 (2012).

• Review of Diana K. Davis, Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007). International Journal of Middle East Studies 41 (2009).

• Review of Carlos E. Cordova, Millennial Landscape Change in Jordan: Geoarchaeology and Cultural Ecology (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007). Agricultural History 83 (2009).

• Review of Jane Hathaway, A Tale of Two Factions: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003). MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies 7 (2007).

• Review of Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh, The Image of an Ottoman City: Imperial Architecture and Urban Experience in Aleppo in the 16th and 17th Centuries (Leiden: Brill, 2004). Arab Studies Journal 14 (2006).

• Review of Timothy Mitchell, Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002). Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 40 (2006).

• Review of Nelly Hanna, In Praise of Books: A Cultural History of Cairo’s Middle Class, Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2003). Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 40 (2006).

• Review of Amy J. Johnson, Reconstructing Rural Egypt: Ahmed Hussein and the History of Egyptian Development (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2004). Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World 3 (2005).

• with Gretchen Head. “Dirāsat al-Tābi‘: I‘ādat Kitābat al-Tārīkh” [Subaltern Studies: The Rewriting of History]. Akhbār al-Adab 587 (October 10, 2004).

• “al-Qāmūs wa al-Istishrāq” [The Lexicon and Orientalism]. Wijhāt Naẓar 6 (July 2004).