MESA is pleased to present the candidates in the 2024 Election of Officers. Click on the candidate’s name to go to their statement and biography. Voting deadline is Tuesday, October 1, 2024, at 12:00 Noon, Eastern Daylight Time. You may vote electronically by completing the ballot at the bottom of this page. If you would like to vote by mail, request a mail-in ballot from [email protected] by September 10. To see the current list of Board Members, go here.

Eligibility: Only Full members (Honorary Fellows, Fellows, and Students) are eligible to vote. This is your opportunity to have a say in the direction of your association. One vote per eligible voting member is allowed. You must be a current MESA member to vote; your membership status will be verified.

Note: The MESA Board of Directors requested that candidates standing for election write a statement about why they have decided to run, and what they would bring to the position in terms of priorities should they be elected.

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Candidates for President-Elect

The President-Elect will serve from November 17, 2024, through November 25, 2025 as President-Elect, then as President from November 26, 2025 until the close of the 2027 annual meeting, and as Past President immediately following the 2027 annual meeting through the 2028 annual meeting.  

To go directly to a candidate's biography, click on the name of the candidate. You will vote for no more than 1 or abstain.  

Ussama Makdisi

Candidate Statement: I am an historian of the modern Middle East and have been a proud member of MESA since I was a graduate student.

My scholarly work has concentrated on exploring the relationship between religious pluralism and colonialism in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman Arab East, and on tracking U.S. involvement across the region. I have always sought to demythologize the problem of sectarianism by drawing attention to a long-neglected history of coexistence in the Middle East.

I would never have imagined living in a moment of genocide, and witnessing a mass solidarity movement comprising students, staff and faculty of all faiths and opposing Gaza’s obliteration be repressed and defamed to such an unprecedented extent by university administrations and Congress alike.

As the foremost academic association concerned with studying the Middle East, MESA requires leadership that can navigate this perilous moment with clarity and integrity. This means ensuring MESA remains a home for research rigor and unfettered intellectual exchange, no matter the issue or its complexity, while also resisting external pressure to weaken MESA’s crucial voice as a venue to understand the Middle East with empathy. My entire career has been devoted to these principles—and I will continue to uphold them faithfully as president of MESA.

I fully support MESA members’ commitment to greater racial and national diversity and endorse doubling our efforts to bring to the fore scholarly voices, too often unheard, from the Middle East and recognize their struggles. Doing so requires us to lead public debates and protect our Members’ academic freedom while articulating an intellectual agenda fully reflecting academic concerns generated in the Middle East itself.

It would be my privilege to help lead MESA as it moves toward more meaningful connections between scholars and students who care passionately about the Middle East. 

Positions: Chancellor’s Chair & Professor of History, University of California at Berkeley, 2022-; Professor, Rice University, Fall 1997-2022; First Holder of Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies, Rice University, Fall 1997-2022.

Education: Ph.D. in History, Princeton University, 1997; B.A. (History, High Honors), Wesleyan University, 1990.

Select Service to Profession: MESA: Board of Directors, 2012-2015; Nominating Committee, 2007; Committee on Academic Freedom (CAF-MENA), 2005-2007. Other Service: External Advisor to Board of Arab American National Museum, 2022; Board of Editors, American Historical Review, 2016-2019; American Council of Learned Societies Selection Committee, Fellowship Program, 2016; Contributing Editor, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (CSSAAME), 2013-; Member of the 2013 Annual Meeting Program Committee, American Historical Association; International Dissertation Research Fellowship Selection Committee, 2005-2008; Editorial Board of Journal Palestine Studies, Spring 2004-2014.

Select Awards and Grants: Berlin Prize, American Academy in Berlin, Spring 2018; Resident Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 2012-2013; Directeur d’études invité, École Pratique des Haute Études, Science Religieuses (Sorbonne), Paris, May 2010; Carnegie Scholar, 2009-2010; Winner of Albert Hourani Book Award and John Hope Franklin Book Prize American Studies Association 2008/9; George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching, Rice University, 2009; American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship 2004-2005.

Publications: Books: Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World (2019); Faith Misplaced: The Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relations, 1820-2001 (2010); Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conquest of the Middle East (2008; The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon (2000); Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa, co-edited with Paul Silverstein (2006). Select Articles: Interview with Daniel Denvir, “How the West Remade the Middle East” in the Jacobin (2024); “The West’s Love of Israel Erases the Middle East’s Real History” in Jacobin (2023); “East of Zionism” in Aeon (2021); “Racism and Sectarianism” (July 2021); “The Immanent Frame: Secularism, Religion, and the Public Sphere”, Social Science Research Foundation;  “Cosmopolitan Ottomans” in Aeon (2019); “Understanding Sectarianism as a Global Problem” in Understanding and Teaching the Modern Middle East, edited by Omnia El Shakry (2020): 117-132; “The Problem of Sectarianism in the Middle East in an Age of Western Hegemony,” Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East, edited by Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel (2017), 23-34; “The Privilege of Acting Upon Others: The Middle Eastern Exception to Anti-Exceptionalist Histories of U.S. and the World,” Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations, 3^rd Edition, edited by Frank Costigliola and Michael J. Hogan, (2016), 203-216; “Diminished Sovereignty and the Impossibility of ‘Civil War’ in the Modern Middle East,” American Historical Review, 120 (2015), 1739-1752; “After Said: The Limits and Possibilities of a Critical Scholarship of U.S.-Arab Relations”
Diplomatic History, 38 (2014) 657-684; “Anti-Americanism in the Arab World: An Interpretation of Brief History,” Journal of American History, History and September 11:  A Special Issue, 89 (2), September 2002: 538-558; “Ottoman Orientalism,” American Historical Review, 107 (3), June 2002: 768-796; “After 1860: Debating Religion, Reform, and Nationalism in the Ottoman Empire,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 34 (2002): 601-617; “Reclaiming the Land of the Bible: Missionaries, Secularism, and Evangelical Modernity,” American Historical Review 102 (3), June 1997: 680-713; “The Modernity of Sectarianism,” Middle East Report. (MERIP), special issue “Minorities in the Middle East,” (1996): 23-27.

 

Nadia G. Yaqub

Candidate Statement: I am honored to have been nominated to run for president of MESA, an organization that has been my intellectual home for more than three decades. MESA’s primary mission is to promote excellence in scholarship and teaching.  Like other academic professional organizations, it does so primarily through its annual meeting, publications, awards, and strong ties with affiliated organizations. However, MESA has long recognized that such work can only be responsibly undertaken through sustained and thoughtful advocacy for academic freedom, for the most vulnerable members of our communities, and for an emphatically global understanding of the parameters of our field. Previous MESA presidents have guided the organization through this important work and I pledge to continue on that path.

In the coming years the academy will face challenges stemming from both global political developments, technological disruptions, and attacks on higher education and free speech in the United States. Recent developments in the Middle East, including the genocide in Palestine that is taking place as I write this, pose particular challenges that we cannot ignore. We can best meet address them through robust and principled scholarship and teaching and an ethos of collaboration and mutual support. As president, I will work to strengthen the organization in its core activities by encouraging the active participation of members in the ongoing work and decision making of MESA; continue advocacy for our field and for the academy in general at the national and international level; fostering thoughtful conversations within MESA about the work we should be doing; and sustain communication and cooperation with other academic organizations.

Positions: Assistant, Associate, & Full Professor Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000-present; Lecturer, University of Washington, Seattle, 1998-99.

Education: PhD, Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley, 1999; MJ Journalism, UC Berkeley, 1986; BA, Linguistics, UC Berkeley, 1981.

Service to Profession: MESA: Associate Editor (film), Review of Middle East Studies, 2015-present; Book Awards Committee, 2023; CAF-NA, 2019-2022; Board of Directors, 2018-2022; Program Committee, 2013. Other Service: Editorial Collective, JMEWS: Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, 2014-19; Board Memberships: MLA Texts and Translations Series 2012-14; Center for Arabic Study Abroad, 2006-09; University of Virginia-Yarmouk University Summer Arabic Program, Advisory Board 2001-2015; Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 2010-present. Various publication, fellowship, and grant reviews. University Service: Chair, Department of Asian Studies, UNC Chapel Hill, 2014-19. Governance, Committee, and Board Memberships since 2015: Education Policy Committee, 2019-2021; Library Administrative Board, 2017-2021; Faculty Council, 2013-2015; 2016-2019; Advisory Committee, Ackland Museum, 2019-2022; Advisory Board, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, 2018-2021; Fixed Term Faculty Committee, Faculty Council, 2017-2020; Advisory Board, UNC Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, 2006-present.

Awards and Grants: NYU Abu Dhabi Senior Humanities Research, 2021/22; UNC Kenan Scholar, Carolina Women’s Center Scholar, James Moeser Award for Distinguished Research; UNC Institute for Arts and Humanities Leadership & Faculty Fellowships; ACLS, 2009/10; SSRC, 1995; CASA, 1991/92; Fulbright Fellow, 1986/87, 1991/92.

Publications: Books: Gaza on Screen, Duke University Press, 2023; Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution, University of Texas Press, 2018; Pens, Swords, and the Springs of Art: The Oral Poetry Dueling of Palestinian Weddings in the Galilee, Brill Academic Publishers, 2006;  Bad Girls of the Arab World, coedited with Rula Quawas, University of Texas Press, 2017. Chapters: “Catastrophe and Post-Catastrophe in the films of Kamal Aljafari,” Histories of Arab Documentaries, Viola Shafiq, editor, American University in Cairo Press, 2022; “Working with Grassroots Digital Humanities Projects: The Tal al-Za`tar Facebook Groups,” Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies, Elias Muhanna, editor, De Gruyter, 2016; “Narrating the Nakba: the Seventh Decade,” Narrating ‘Conflict’:  Discourse, Spectacle, Commemoration and Communication Practices in Palestine and Lebanon, Dina Matar and Zahera Harb, editors, I.B. Tauris, 2013; “Azza Hassan and Impossible Filmmaking in Israel/Palestine,” Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures, Karima Laachir, Saeed Talajooy, editors, Routledge, 2012; “Dismantling the Discourses of War: Palestinian Women Filmmakers Address Violence,” Gender and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa, Moha Ennaji, Fatima Sadiqi, editors, Routledge, 2011; “Paradise Now: Narrating a Failed Politics,” “The Dupes: Three Generations Uprooted and Betrayed,” and “Waiting: A Scattered People Waiting for a Common Future,” Film and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa, Josef Gugler, editor, UT Press, 2010. Selected Articles: “The City in Early Arab Alternative Cinema,” Telos, 2021; “The Afterlives of Violent Images: Reading Photographs from the Tal al-Za`tar Refugee Camp on Facebook,” Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 2015; “Refracted Filmmaking in Muhammad Malas’ The Dream and Kamal Aljafari’s The Roof,” Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 2014; “Utopia and Dystopia in Palestinian Circular Journeys from Ghassan Kanafani to Contemporary Film,” Middle East Literatures, 2012; “Gendering the Palestinian Political Cartoon,” Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 2009; “Arts Under Occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip,” MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies, 2008; “The Palestinian Cinematic Wedding,” JMEWS, Spring 2007.

 

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Candidates for Board of Directors

The terms for those elected as Directors will serve November 17, 2024, through the close of the 2027 annual meeting.  

To go directly to a candidate's biography, click on the name of the candidate. You will vote for no more than 2 or abstain.  

Mustafa Aksakal
 

Candidate Statement: It is a great honor to be nominated for the Board. I would hope to help MESA navigate the many critical challenges that members are facing in the current social and political climate, both domestically and globally, while finding ways to strengthen support for junior scholars in the field. MESA’s committees, awards, annual meetings, and publications have created an important and exciting community of scholars and teachers. MESA provides a space for mentorship and professional development. I consider service to MESA an important investment of time and would be honored to serve on the Board.

Positions: Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University, 2011-present; Assistant Professor of History, American University, 2007-2011; Assistant Professor, Monmouth University, 2004-2007.

Education: Ph.D., Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, 2003.

Service to the Profession: MESA: Mentor, Global Academy (2021-2024); Nominating Committee (2010, 2014); Program Committee (2019). Other Service: Advisory Council, World War I National Museum and Memorial (2022-present); Advisory Board, Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire (2022-present).

Awards and Grants: National Endowment for the Humanities, 2010-2011; Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, 2011-2012; ACLS Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship, 2010-2013.

Publications: Books: The Ottoman Road to War in 1914: The Ottoman Empire and the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Other: The First World War in the Middle East and North Africa, Guest Editor, Special Issue, International Journal of Middle East Studies 46 (November 2014). Articles: “Why We Teach History,” (with Judith Tucker), in Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, Newsmagazine, 2023; “Inside the Ottoman Army: Two Armenian Soldiers Tell Their Story,” in Inside World War One? The First World War and its Witnesses, eds. Richard Bessel and Dorothee Wierling (Oxford University Press, 2018); “The Ottoman Empire,” in Empires at War, 1912-1923, eds. Robert Gerwarth and Erez Manela (Oxford University Press, 2014). “The Ottoman Empire,” in The Cambridge History of the First World War, ed. Jay Winter (Cambridge University Press, 2014).

 

FRances Hasso
 

Candidate Statement: I was honored to be asked to run for MESA Board. If I am elected, I will learn the priorities for the organization and membership in the current historical moment and do my best to make things happen. I will advocate for MESA members who are penalized for their political conviction and courage. I strongly prefer the in-person annual meeting but have for years believed that people who cannot physically attend or participate for any reason should be able to register (with lower fees than in-person attendance) and participate remotely. I would work on this.

Positions: Professor, Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, History, and Sociology, Duke U (hired 2011). Associate Professor, Oberlin C (hired 2000). Antioch C (1998-2000).

Education: Ph.D., M.A., Sociology, Graduate Certificate, Women’s Studies, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1997; M.A. in Arab Studies. Georgetown U, 1990; B.A. in International Relations, UCLA, 1987.

Service to the Profession: MESA: Program Committee (2007, 2024); MESA Ad Hoc Committee on External Funding (2019). Other (Selected): Faculty Editorial Advisory Board, Duke UP, 2013-2017; Editor, JMEWS, 2015-2018.

Selected Awards and Grants: Interdisciplinary Studies Section of International Studies Association Best Book Award for Buried in the Red Dirt (2023); Franklin Humanities Institute Book Manuscript Fellowship (2020); Fellow, National Humanities Center (2018-2019); Senior Fellow, ACOR/CAORC (2018); Trent Research Grant (2017); Duke Arts & Sciences Faculty Research Grant (2013); Outstanding Academic Title Award, Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, for Consuming Desires (2011).

Selected Publications: Books: “Buried in the Red Dirt”: Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine (Cambridge, 2022); Freedom without Permission: Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions, Co-edited with Zakia Salime (Duke. 2016); Consuming Desires: Family Crisis and the State in the Middle East and North Africa (Stanford, 2011); Resistance, Repression and Gender Politics in Occupied Palestine and Jordan (Syracuse, 2005). Recent Book Chapters: “La politique et l’intrication entre confession religieuse, sexe et police (Bahreïn),” 87-117. Traduction de l’anglais par Mélodie Breton-Grange, dans Sarah Barrières, Abir Kréfa et Saba Le Renard (dir.), Le genre en révolution: 2010-2020 (Maghreb et Moyen-Orient). (Presses Universitaires de Lyon 2023); “The Sect-Sex-Police Nexus and Politics in Bahrain’s Pearl Revolution,” Freedom without Permission: Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions (Duke UP, 2016): 105-137. Recent Journal Articles: “Beyond the Treatment Room: The Psyche-Body-Society Care Politics of Cairo’s El-Nadeem,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Vol. 49.1 (2023): 7-35; “‘I Have Ambition’: Muhammad Ramadan’s Proletarian Masculinities in Postrevolution Egyptian Cinema.” IJMES Vol. 52.2 (2020): 197-214; “Masculine Love and Sensuous Reason: the Affective and Spatial Politics of Egyptian Ultras Football Fans,” Gender, Place, & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography Vol. 25.10 (2018): 1423-1447; “Civil and the Limits of Politics in Revolutionary Egypt,” Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East Vol. 35.3 (2015): 605-621; “Bargaining with the Devil: States and Intimate Life.” JMEWS, Vol. 10.2 (2014): 107-134; “Empowering Governmentalities Rather than Women: The Arab Human Development Report 2005 and Western Development Logics.” IJMES, Vol. 41.1 (2009):63-82.

 

Maya Mikdashi
 

Candidate Statement: The Middle East Studies Association is an important resource for teachers, scholars, and the broader community. In particular, its annual meeting and flagship journal, IJMES, serve as incubators of knowledge that advance the field in critical ways. Expertise in Middle East studies has never been more important, yet the field and the people who constitute it have routinely experienced scrutiny and backlash related to their scholarly activity. As a board member I would work to support the MESA community and the organization’s longstanding commitment to academic excellence and academic freedom. I would also continue to expand the space of interdisciplinary fields within Middle East studies. I look forward to advancing the urgent work that MESA does in the context of higher education in the United States, strengthening its collaborative ties to universities and scholarly communities in the Middle East and around the world, and supporting MESA members individually and collectively.

Positions: Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick (2023-2026); Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow, Rutgers University (2014-2015); Faculty Fellow, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, NYU (2012-14).

Education: PhD, Anthropology, Columbia University (2014); MA, Arab Studies, Georgetown University (2004); BA, Communication Arts, Lebanese American University in Beirut (2000).

Service to the Profession: MESA: Nominating Committee (2016); Program Committee (2021); Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award Committee in the Social Sciences (2023); Mentor, MESA Global Academy (2022, 2023). Other Service: Co-founding editor, Jadaliyya; Editorial Board, Journal of Palestine and Social Text; Chair of Indigenous Peoples Caucus at the NWSA (2017-2019).

Awards and Grants: Winner, 2023 Gregory Bateson Book Prize, Society for Cultural Anthropology, AAA; winner, 2023 Fatema Mernissi Book Award; winner, 2023 AMEWS Book Prize; winner, 2023 LGBTQ Caucus book award, ISA; honorable mention, 2023 Michelle Rosaldo Book Prize, Association for Feminist Anthropology, AAA; Cheryl Wall Faculty Fellowship at Rutgers University for service to the university and its diverse communities, 2023-2024. Multiple research grants and fellowships, including SSRC and Wenner-Gren.  

Selected Publications: Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism and the State in Lebanon (Stanford University Press, 2022). Selected Chapters: “Afterlives of a Census: History, Anthropology, Multiplicity,” Practicing Sectarianism in Lebanon: Archival and Ethnographic Interventions, Lara Deeb, Nadya Sbaiti, Tsolin Nabaltian, eds. (Stanford University Press, 2022); “Sextarianism: A Way of Studying the Lebanese State,” The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History, Jens Hanssen and Amal Ghazal, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2021); “What Is Settler Colonialism? For Leo Delano Ames,” The Settler Complex: Recuperating Binarism in Colonial Studies, Patrick Wolfe, ed. (UCLA, 2016). “Lebanon,” Dispatches from the Arab Spring: Understanding the New Middle East, Vijay Prashad and Paul Amar, eds. (University of Minnesota Press, 2013); “The Marriage of Sexism and Islamophobia: Remaking the News on Egypt,” Mediating The Arab Uprisings, Bassam Haddad and Adel Iskander, eds.  (Tadween Publishing, 2013); “Sexual Violence is a Crime, Sometimes” and “What is Cultural Terrorism?” After Words: A Reader for Academic Writing, Rima Antissi, ed. (Educart, 2012 & 2015). Selected Articles: “Sex and Sectarianism: The Legal Architecture of Lebanese Citizenship.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014, 34, no. 2: 279-293); Coauthored: Mikdashi, Maya and Puar, Jasbir, “Queer Theory and Permanent War,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (2016, 22, no. 2: 215-222). Multiple journal articles, book reviews, and film reviews.

 

Jessica Winegar
 

Candidate Statement: MESA’s importance at this time cannot be underestimated—both as a scholarly association supporting the highest standards of research and teaching, and as a body committed to advocating for human rights and academic freedom both in the region and for scholars of the region. As a board member, I would actively support the maintenance of scholarly standards in this time of intensified disinformation. I would also draw on my feminist and anti-racist advocacy experience to bolster MESA’s critical work on human rights and academic freedom, which are under extreme threat in North America and in the region. I would also bring these commitments to bear on expanding support for newer scholars bringing fresh ideas to the field, and by fostering ties with scholars and institutions in the region, in part through MESA’s Global Academy. Finally, I would support the diverse interests of our membership, particularly those in more precarious positions.

Positions: Professor, Department of Anthropology and Program in Middle East and North African Studies, Northwestern University (2018-present); Associate Professor, Northwestern (2011-2018); Assistant Professor, Northwestern (2009-2011); Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Temple University (2007-2009); Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Fordham University (2007-2009).

Education: PhD, Anthropology, New York University (2003); BA, Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania (1993).

Service to the Profession (post-PhD): MESA: Editorial Board, IJMES (2019-present); Nominating Committee (2012); Rhonda Saad Graduate Student Paper Prize Committee (2012); Student Paper Prize Committee (2010). Other: Anthroboycott Organizing Collective (2022-23, 2015-16); President, AAA Middle East Section (2018-2020); Board Member, AAA Middle East Section (2005-2008, 2007, 2017-2018); MERIP Editorial Committee Chair (2017-2018); MERIP Vice-Chair (2016); MERIP Editorial Committee (2012-2018); AAA Committee for Human Rights Chair (2011-2012); Political and Legal Anthropology Review Co-Editor (2018-2021); Task Force on Middle East Anthropology Founding Member; Arteeast Virtual Gallery Curator (2004-2009).

Awards and Grants (post-PhD): Middle East Studies Association Albert Hourani Book Award (2007); African Studies Association Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award (2011); Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2018-2019); Howard Foundation Fellowship (2012-2013); Wilbur Award, Religion Communicators Council (2013); American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (2009-2010); Fulbright Scholar (2009-2010); National Endowment for the Humanities (2004-2005).

Selected Publications: Books: Creative Reckonings: The Politics of Art and Culture in Contemporary Egypt (Stanford 2006); Anthropology’s Politics: Disciplining the Middle East (with Lara Deeb, Stanford 2016). Articles: “From Resistance to Repression and Back Again: The Movement for Palestinian Liberation in US Academia” (Lara Deeb, Middle East Critique, 2024); “Laughing in the Streets: The Power and Peril of Egyptian Protest Humor” (Forthcoming in Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology); “Anthropology’s Good Beyond the Discipline” (with Lara Deeb, American Ethnologist, 2023); “The Power of Nonsense: Humor in Egypt’s Counter/Revolution” (British Journal of Middle East Studies, 2021); “Resonant Bodies: The Performance Art of Adham Hafez” (Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 2018); “A Civilized Revolution: Aesthetics and Political Action in Egypt” (American Ethnologist, 2016); “Civilizing Muslim Youth: Egyptian State Culture Programs and Islamic Television Preachers” (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2014); “Anthropologies of Arab-Majority Societies” (with Lara Deeb, Annual Review of Anthropology, 2012); The Privilege of Revolution: Gender, Class, Space, and Affect in Cairo” (American Ethnologist, 2012); “The Humanity Game: Art, Islam, and the War on Terror” (Anthropological Quarterly, 2008); “Cultural Sovereignty in a Global Art Economy: Egyptian Cultural Policy and the New Western Interest in Art from the Middle East” (Cultural Anthropology, 2006); “Of Chadors and Purple Fingers: U.S. Visual Media Coverage of the 2005 Iraqi Elections” (Feminist Media Studies, 2005).

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