Israel/Palestine

“Egyptian Popular Culture in Late Ottoman and Mandate Palestine,” Palestine/Israel Review 1 (no. 1, 2024)

 “Socialism, Zionism, and Settler Colonialism in Israel/Palestine,” Cambridge History of Socialism vol. 2 (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

“Mixing, Separation, and Violence in Urban Spaces and the Rural Frontier in Palestine,” Arab Studies Journal 21 (no. 1, Spring 2013):10-43.

“Forgetfulness for Memory: The Limits of the New Israeli History,” Journal of Palestine Studies 35 (no. 2, winter 2005):6-23.

“The Israelization of American Middle East Policy Discourse,” Social Text 21 (no. 2, summer 2003):125-39

   “Is Terrorism a Useful Term in Understanding the Middle East and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict?” Radical History Review no. 85 (winter 2003):12-23.

“Political Economy and Public Culture in a State of Constant Conflict: 50 Years of Jewish Statehood,” Jewish Social Studies 4 (no. 3, 1998):96-141.

“The Holocaust and the Politics of Memory” (review essay) Radical History Review no. 60 (Fall 1994):217-23.

“Knowing Your Enemy, Knowing Your Ally: The Arabists of Hashomer Hatza‘ir (MAPAM),” Social Text no. 28 (July 1991):100-21.

“Class, Ethnicity, Gender, National Conflict, and the Formation of Israeli Society” (review essay) Radical History Review, no. 51 (Fall 1991):114-23.

“Israel at Forty: The Political Economy/Political Culture of Constant Conflict,” Arab Studies Quarterly 10 (no. 3, 1988):433-56.

Egypt & the Arab World

“Is There a New Middle East? What Has Changed and What Hasn’t?” in The Contemporary Middle East in an Age of Upheaval, James Gelvin, ed. (Stanford University Press 2021); 23-39.

“MERIP and Political Economy in Middle East Studies,” Review of Middle East Studies 55 (no. 2, 2021):241-51.

“Sentimentalizing and Hyper-Theorizing Egypt’s 2011 Uprising,” Review of Middle East Studies 51 (no. 2, 2017):234–239

“Arab Liberal Intellectuals and the Partition of Palestine,” in Partitions: A Transnational History of 20th Century Territorial Separatism, Arie Dubnov and Laura Robson, eds. (Stanford University Press, 2019), 203-23.

“Egyptian Workers in the Liberal Age and Beyond,” in Jens Hanssen and Max Weiss eds. Arabic Thought Against the Authoritarian Age: Towards an Intellectual History of the Present, (Cambridge University Press, 2018), 239-61.

“Egypt and its Jews: The Specter of an Absent Minority,” in Laura Robson (ed.), Minorities and the Modern Arab World: New Perspectives (Syracuse University Press, 2016), 77-92.

“The Egyptian Workers Movement Before and After the 2011 Popular Uprising,” Socialist Register 2015; with Marie Duboc, (Merlin Press, Pontypool, Wales, 2014).

“Mouvement ouvrier, luttes syndicales et processus révolutionnaire en Égypte, 2006-2013,” in Michel Camau and Frédéric Vairel (eds.), Soulèvements et recompositions politiques dans le monde arabe; with Marie Duboc, (Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2014), 121-42.

“Le rôle des ouvriers dans les soulèvements populaires arabes de 2011,” Le Mouvement Social no. 246 (Jan.-Mar. 2014):7-27

“Strikes in Egypt Spread from Center of Gravity,” with Hossam el-Hamalawy, in David McMurray and Amanda Ufheil-Somers (eds.), The Arab Revolts: Dispatches on Militant Democracy in the Middle East (Indiana University Press, 2013), 83-99.

“Workers and Egypt’s January 25th Revolution,” International Labor and Working Class History 80 (no. 1, 2011):189-96.

“Workers’ Protest in Egypt: Neo-Libera lism and Class Struggle in the 21st Century,” Social Movement Studies 8 (no. 4, Nov. 2009):449–454.

“Le Marxisme égyptien (1936-52): nationalisme, anti-impérialisme et réforme sociale,” Cahiers d’histoire: revue d’histoire critique, no. 105/106 (juillet-décembre 2008):129-43.

“Essor et déclin du paradigme marxiste/nationaliste de gauche dans Le Moyen-Orient Arabe,” Cahiers d’histoire: revue d’histoire critique, no. 104(avril-juin 2008):169-88.

“Political Islam and the New Global Economy: The Political Economy of an Egyptian Social Movement,” The New Centennial Review 5 (no. 1, spring 2005):111-39.

“Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and the Jewish Community in Egypt, 1939 to the Present,” Hagar: International Social Science Review 3 (no. 1, 2002):51-66.

“The Jewish Business Elite in Twentieth Century Egypt: Pillars of the National Economy or Compradors?” Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies 1 (no. 2, Autumn 1999):113-38.

“Nazis and Spies: Representations of Israeli Espionage and Terrorism in Egypt,” Jewish Social Studies 2 (no. 3, 1996):54-84.

“Egyptian Jewish Identities: Communitarianisms, Nationalisms, Nostalgias,” Stanford Humanities Review 5 (no. 1, 1995):92-119; reprinted in Goshen: Bulletin des juifs d’Egypte en Israël no. 16 (January 2000):14-22.

“Writing Class: Workers and Modern Egyptian Colloquial Poetry (Zajal),” Poetics Today 15 (no. 2, Summer 1994):191-215.

“Exile and Political Activism: The Egyptian-Jewish Communist Emigrés in Paris, 1950-1959” Diaspora 2 (no. 1, 1992):73-94.

“Labor, Capital and the State in Nasserist Egypt, 1952-1961,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 21 (no. 1, 1989):71-90.

“The Communist Movement and Nationalist Political Discourse in Nasirist Egypt,” Middle East Journal 41 (no. 4, 1987):568-84.

“Class and Politics in Middle Eastern Societies: A Review Article,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 28 (no. 3, 1986):552-57.