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New Book

(Forthcoming) The Roots of Revolt: A Political Economy of Egypt from Nasser to Mubarak, Cambridge University Press (Expected publication date: February 2020).

Other Select Publications

• (2019) Review of Zeinab Abul Magd, Militarizing the Nation: The Army, Business and Revolution in Egypt, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017), International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 51, Issue 3, pp.508-511: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743819000540

• (2018) ‘The Military and the State in Egypt: Class Formation in the Post-Arab Uprisings’, British Journal of Middle East Studies, pp. 1-21, https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2018.1509692.

• (2018) 'Is Islamism Accommodating Neoliberalism? The Case of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood’, in Islamists and the Politics of the Arab Uprisings: Governance, Pluralisation and Contention Paola Rivetti and Hendrik Kratzschmar (eds.), Edinburgh University Press, pp.89-106.

• ( 2018) ‘Political Islam and Globalization: The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood’s Approach to State and Economy’, Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 41, No.3, pp.5-24.

• (2017) 'The Persistence of Neoliberalism since the Arab Uprisings' in Richard Westra (ed.), The Political Economy of Emerging Markets: Varieties of BRICS in the Age of Global Crises and Austerity, Routledge, pp. 201-220.

• (2017) 'Neoliberalism, the State and Economic Policy Outcomes in the Post-Arab Uprisings: The Case of Egypt', Mediterranean Politics, (August), pp. 339-361: https://doi.org/10.1080/13629395.2016.1219182

• (2016) Review of Samuli Schielki, Egypt in the Future Tense: Hope, Frustration and Ambivalence before and after 2011, (Indiana University Press, 2015), Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Issue 2.

• (2016) Review of Carrie Rosefsky Wickham, The Muslim Brotherhood: Evolution of an Islamist Movement, (Princeton University Press, 2015), Special Issue of Global Discourse (June).

• (2015) Co-Authored with Evrim Gormus, 'State Power and Radicalization in Egypt's Sinai,' Canadian Journal of Middle East Studies, Special Issue: Radicalism in the Middle East, Vol. 1, No.1, pp. 42-50.

• (2013) 'The Egyptian Revolution: Crisis of Neoliberalism and the Potential for Democratic Politics', republished in ‘Virtual Special Issue –Turmoil in North Africa: a radical assessment of the uprisings since the end of 2010', Review of African Political Economy, 2013, Online: http://explore.tandfonline.com/page/pgas/crea-vsi

• (2013) 'Failed States and Canada’s 3D Policy (Defense, Diplomacy and Development) in Afghanistan’, in Jerome Klassen and Greg Albo (eds.),  Empire’s Ally: Canadian Foreign Policy and the War in Afghanistan, University of Toronto Press.

• (2013) Review of Line Khatib, Islamic Revivalism in Syria: the Rise and Fall of Ba’thist Secularism, (London: Routledge, 2011), Canadian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 46, No.1, Spring.

• (2012) 'Syria and the Arab Spring: The Evolution of the Conflict and the Role of Domestic and External Factors', Ortadoğu Etütleri (Turkish Journal of Middle Eastern Studies), Vol. 4, No. 1, July, pp. 27-55.

• (2012) Review of Rabab El-Mahdi and Philip Marfleet (eds), Egypt: The Moment of Change, (Zed Press, 2009), British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 39, Issue No. 3.

• (2011) 'The Egyptian Revolution: Crisis of Neoliberalism and the Potential for Democratic Politics', Review of African Political Economy, Issue No. 29, September.

• (2011) Review of Laura Guazzone and Daniela Pioppi, (eds), The Arab State and Neoliberal Globalization: the Restructuring of State Power in the Middle East, (Reading: Ithaca Press, 2009), Review of African Political Economy, Volume 38, Issue No. 128, June.

• (2010) 'A Comparative Study of Neoliberalism in Egypt and Syria’, in Richard Westra (ed.), Confronting Global Neoliberalism: Third World Resistance and Development Strategies, Clarity Press.

• (2007) 'Syria’s Transition, 1970-2005: From Centralization of the State to Market Economy', Research in Political Economy Volume 24, Summer.