Representative publications:
•    Mehmed Ali: From Ottoman Governor to Ruler of Egypt (Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2009).
•    All the Pasha’s Men: Mehmed Ali Pasha, His Army and the Founding of Modern Egypt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.) An Arabic translation appeared in 2001 (Cairo: Dar al-Shorouk) and a Turkish one in 2010 (Istanbul: Bilgi University Press).
•    The Body and Modernity: Essays in the History of Medicine and Law in Modern Egypt (Cairo: Dar al-Kutub, 2004). (In Arabic).
•    “Modernizing Cairo: A revisionist account,” in Making Cairo Medieval, eds. Nezar AlSayyad, Irene A. Bierman, and Nasser Rabbat,  (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005).
•    “Bare life,” in Akhbar al-Adab, issue no. 718, 17 April 2007 (in Arabic).
•    “The Israeli withdrawal from Gaza: Sharon’s plan and Palestinian options”, al-Busla, issue no. 2, 2005. (in Arabic)
•    “An olfactory tale of two cities: Cairo in the nineteenth century” in Historians in Cairo: Essays in Honor of George Scanlon, ed. Jill Edwards (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2002).
•    “Justice, law and pain in Khedival Egypt,” in Standing Trial: Law and the Person in the Modern Middle East, ed. Baudouin Dupret (London: I.B. Tauris, 2004).
•    “Prostitution in nineteenth-century Egypt,” in Outside In: On the Margins of the Modern Middle East, ed. Eugene Rogan (London: I.B. Tauris, 2002).
•     “For Cavafy, with love and squalor: Some critical notes on the history and historiography of modern Alexandria,” in Alexandria, Real and Imagined, ed. Anthony Hirst and Michael Silk (London: Ashgate, 2004).
•    “The anatomy of Justice: Forensic medicine and criminal law in nineteenth-century Egypt,” Islamic Law and Society, 6 (1999).
•    “Women, medicine and power in nineteenth-century Egypt,” in Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East, ed. Lila Abu-Lughod (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998).