BOOK REVIEWS

• Alan Mikhail’s The Animal in Ottoman Egypt in International Journal of Turkish Studies 22, 1 and 2 (2016), 109-111.
• Lucie Ryzova’s The Age of the Efendiyya: Passages to Modernity in National-Colonial Egypt in English Historical Review 131, 551 (2016), 961-963.
• Saba Mahmood’s Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report in Mada Masr (May 8, 2016).
• Mériam Belli’s An Incurable Past: Nasser’s Egypt Then and Now in Arab Studies Journal 23, 1 (2015), 404-407.
• Beth Baron’s The Orphan Scandal: Christian Missionaries and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in International Journal of Middle East Studies 47, 2 (2015).
• Raouf Abbas’s and Assem El-Dessouky’s The Large Landowning Class and the Peasantry in Egypt, 1837-1952 in International Journal of Middle East Studies 45, 2 (2013), 383-385.
• Vivian Ibrahim’s The Copts of Egypt: Challenges of Modernisation and Identity in Arab Studies Journal 20, 1 (2012), 231-235.
• Laura Robson’s Colonialism and Christianity in Mandate Palestine in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 43, 2 (2012), 346-347.
• Robert Tignor’s Egypt: A Short History in Journal of World History 23, 2 (2012), 419-421.
• Scott W. Hibbard’s Religious Politics and Secular States: Egypt, India, and the United States in Review of Middle East Studies 46, 1 (2012), 115-116.
• Rachel Scott’s The Challenge of Political Islam: Non-Muslims and the Egyptian State in Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 31, 3 (2011), 669-670.
• Omnia el Shakry’s The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt in Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 30, 1 (2010), 151-152.
• Ussama Makdisi’s Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East in International Journal of Middle East Studies 42 (2010), 147-148.
• Nancy Stockdale’s Colonial Encounters among English and Palestinian Women, 1800-1948 in International Journal of Middle East Studies 41 (2009), 509-510.
• Tamir Moustafa’s The Struggle for Constitutional Power in Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 28, 2 (2008), 373-374.
• Avigdor Levy’s edited volume Jews, Turks, Ottomans: A Shared History, Fifteenth Through the Twentieth Century in Middle East and South Asia Folklore Bulletin 20, 1-2 (Winter and Spring 2004).
• S. Hasan’s Christians Versus Muslims in Modern Egypt: The Century-Long Struggle for Coptic Equality in Middle East Journal 58, 3 (Summer 2004), 510-511.
• André Raymond’s Cairo in Arab Studies Journal 9, 2 / 10, 1 (Fall 2001 / Spring 2002), 154-156.

OP-EDs

• “The Subversive Power of Grief,” MERIP blog (December 13, 2016).
• “How Not to Understand Egypt’s Sectarianism,” Jadaliyya (December 12, 2016).
• “Religious Difference in a Secular Age: Book review,” Mada Masr (May 8, 2016).
• “Whatever Happened to Middle Eastern Studies?” Mada Masr (October 11, 2015).
• “The Problem of Academic Engagement with the Public,” Thawra Thoughts (March 16, 2015).
• “Quick Thoughts: Paul Sedra on the IS Massacre of Egyptian Copts in Libya,” Jadaliyya (February 17, 2015) [PDF].
• “Faten Hamama and the ‘Egyptian Difference’ in Film,” Mada Masr (January 20, 2015) [PDF].
• “The Salaita Case and Middle East Studies,” Mada Masr (September 10, 2014) [PDF].
• “Thinking about Egyptian Politics from the Bottom Up,” Mada Masr (May 27, 2014) [PDF].
• “Quick Thoughts: Paul Sedra on the Pope’s Visit to the Middle East,” Jadaliyya (May 23, 2014) [PDF].
• “Church-State Relations in Egypt,” Middle East Institute blog (February 24, 2014) [PDF].
• “The Lies that States Tell,” Mada Masr (November 20, 2013).
• “Egypt’s History Problem,” Mada Masr (September 4, 2013).
• “The ‘Sectarianization’ of Egyptian Society,” openDemocracy (August 22, 2013) [PDF].
• Contribution to “On Egypt’s Day of Infamy,” MERIP blog (August 20, 2013).
• “From Citizen to Problem: The New Coptic Tokenism,” Mada Masr (August 18, 2013).
• “Has Citizenship Got a Future in Egypt?” Jadaliyya (April 8, 2013).
• “Iraq Through the Lens of 1882,” OpenCanada (March 19, 2013) [PDF, Repository].
• “Pope Tawadros II and the Question of Egyptian Sectarianism,” Tahrir Squared (March 14, 2013) [PDF].
• “Egypt’s State of Siege,” Egypt Independent (February 20, 2013) [PDF].
• “The Maspero Massacre: Adding Injustice to Insult and Injury,” Jadaliyya (February 14, 2013).
• “The Dignity of Hamada Saber,” Jadaliyya (February 5, 2013).
• “The Tragedy of the Brotherhood,” Egypt Independent (February 3, 2013) [PDF].
• “The Revolution and History,” Jadaliyya (January 25, 2013).
• “The Revolution Continues,” Egypt Independent (January 21, 2013) [PDF].
• “The Law as a Weapon,” Egypt Independent (January 11, 2013).
• “The Poison in Egypt’s Political Life,” Egypt Independent (December 28, 2012) [PDF].
• “The Brotherhood’s Politics of Fear and Division,” Egypt Independent (December 23, 2012) [PDF].
• “The Battle for Sovereignty in Egypt,” Counterpunch (December 10, 2012). Republished by Egypt Independent.
• “Copts and the Power over Personal Status,” Jadaliyya (December 3, 2012) [PDF]. Republished by Egypt Independent. Translated into Arabic and republished by Jadaliyya [Repository].
• “Assiut, Qursaya, Mohamed Mahmoud: Making the Connections,” Egypt Independent (November 19, 2012) [PDF]. Republished by Jadaliyya [PDF].
• “The Ethics of Electioneering,” Egypt Independent (November 7, 2012) [PDF]. Republished by Al Arabiya.
• “A New Pope, A New Approach?” Egypt Independent (October 28, 2012) [PDF].
• “Egypt’s Constituent Assembly: Contempt and Counterrevolution,” Jadaliyya (October 26, 2012) [PDF]. Translated into Spanish and republished by Rebelión.
• “Martyrdom at Maspero: Searching for Meaning,” Egypt Independent (October 9, 2012) [PDF]. Republished by Jadaliyya [PDF].
• “Where Is the ‘President for All Egyptians’?” Egypt Independent (October 5, 2012) [PDF].
• “The Urgency of Peaceful Protest in Today’s Egypt,” Egypt Independent (September 22, 2012) [PDF].
• “How to Lose Friends in the Middle East,” OpenCanada (September 18, 2012).
• “Activism in the Coptic Diaspora: A Brief Introduction,” Jadaliyya (September 13, 2012) [PDF].
• “September 11th, Islamophobia, and the ‘Persecution Industry’,” Egypt Independent (September 11, 2012) [PDF].
• “Islamists Took Over Years Ago,” Egypt Independent (September 9, 2012) [PDF].
• “The Cultural Project of the Revolution,” Egypt Independent (August 25, 2012) [PDF].
• “Time to Reject the Language of Coptic Victimhood,” Egypt Independent (August 10, 2012) [PDF].
• “Why the Language of Revolution Matters,” Jadaliyya (July 23, 2012) [PDF].
• “The Church, Maspero, and the Future of the Coptic Community,” Jadaliyya (March 19, 2012).
• “Copts as Egypt’s Conscience,” Al-Akhbar English (December 21, 2011).
• “The Dignity Revolution,” OpenCanada (November 21, 2011).
• “Films for the Classroom: Silences of the Palace,” Jadaliyya (November 2, 2011) [PDF, Repository].
• “Sectarianism and the Revolution,” Jadaliyya (October 11, 2011) [PDF].
• “Manoubia and Her Son,” Jadaliyya (October 8, 2011) [PDF, Repository]. Translated into Spanish and republished by Rebelión [PDF].
• “The Long Shadow of the 1952 Revolution,” Jadaliyya (February 13, 2011) [PDF]. Translated into French and republished by A l’encontre.
• “No nation has ever rebuilt another,” The Toronto Star (July 23, 2009).

[Author pages at Egypt Independent and Jadaliyya.]

SELECTED MEDIA APPEARANCES

Television

• January 25, 2013 (on the revolution’s second anniversary), Al-Jazeera English, http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CceSijmn1Tc

• September 21, 2012 (on threats to diaspora Copts), ‘CTV National News,’ http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=767070&playlistId=1.967195&binId=1.810401 [PDF]

• October 9, 2011 (on sectarian violence), ‘Newshour,’ Al-Jazeera English, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAH-hD3TAf8.

Radio

• November 23, 2012 (on Gaza ceasefire and constitutional declaration), ‘The Early Edition,’ CBC Radio Vancouver.

• October 17, 2012 (on the Coptic Church and sectarianism in Egypt), ‘Voices of the Middle East and North Africa,’ KPFA 94.1 FM Berkeley.

• August 13, 2012 (on civil-military relations in Egypt), ‘On the Coast,’ CBC Radio Vancouver.

• March 30, 2012 (on the Coptic Church and sectarianism in Egypt), ‘Voices of the Middle East and North Africa,’ KPFA 94.1 FM Berkeley.

• January 25, 2012 (on the anniversary of Egyptian revolution), ‘The Early Edition,’ CBC Radio Vancouver.

• December 22, 2011 (on the burning of l’Institut d’Egypte), ‘Voices of the Middle East and North Africa,’ KPFA 94.1 FM Berkeley.

• November 22, 2011 (on Tahrir Square violence), ‘The Early Edition,’ CBC Radio Vancouver, http://www.cbc.ca/earlyedition/podcast/2011/11/22/clashes-in-cairo-occupy-vancouver-grey-cup/.

• October 12, 2011 (on sectarian violence), ‘The Early Edition,’ CBC Radio Vancouver, http://www.cbc.ca/earlyedition/past-episodes/2011/10/12/dr-price-kim-bolan-korean-vets-rumana-monzur-missing-womens-inquiry-high-velocity-jamie-kehoe-and-bu/.

• August 3, 2011 (on the Mubarak trial), ‘The Early Edition,’ CBC Radio Vancouver, http://www.cbc.ca/earlyedition/podcast/2011/08/03/calling-for-transfer-fee-changes-mubarak-trial-dr-lin-on-salt/.

• February 11, 2011 (on the Egyptian revolution), ‘On the Coast,’ CBC Radio Vancouver, http://www.cbc.ca/onthecoast/episodes/2011/02/11/paul-sedra/.

• February 11, 2011 (on the Egyptian revolution), ‘All Points West,’ CBC Radio Victoria, http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/bcallpointswest_20110215_45310.mp3.

Print

• Interviewed by Margarida Santos Lopes, “O sermao de Morsi e os limites do seu poder,” Público (November 24, 2012).

• Interviewed by Christophe Ayad, “Dans la diaspora copte, des extrémistes minoritaires mais très actifs,” Le Monde (September 19, 2012).

• Interviewed by Margarida Santos Lopes, “A violência dos muçulmanos é um insulto ao islão?” Público (September 19, 2012).

• Interviewed by Stephanie Levitz, “Sudden stop: Canada cuts ties with Iran, closes embassy, orders diplomats home,” Canadian Press in Vancouver Sun (September 7, 2012).

• Interviewed by Vivian Salama, “Egypt’s Copts to Pick a New Pope Amid Shifting Political Landscape,” Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East (August 5, 2012).

• Interviewed by Maria Fernanda Seixas, “Após transição no Egito, ativistas temem manobra para fraudar o pleito,” Correio Braziliense (June 21, 2012).

• Interviewed by Aya Batrawy, “Egypt Christians rally behind rival of Islamists,” Associated Press in Seattlepi.com (June 12, 2012).

• Interviewed by Margaret Wente, “We need more, not less, about religious freedom,” The Globe and Mail (January 7, 2012) [PDF].

• Interviewed by Bradley Hope, “Cairo rocked by third day of protest violence,” The National (December 19, 2011).

• Interviewed by Renata Tranches, “Após 59 anos de domínio militar, Egito se aproxima da democracia,” Correio Braziliense (November 28, 2011).

• Interviewed by D. Parvaz, “Egypt’s Copts View Election with Concern,” Al-Jazeera English (November 27, 2011) [PDF].

• Interviewed by Yolande Cole, “Hope is on the horizon following Mubarak’s resignation, says Egyptian politics expert,” Georgia Straight (February 11, 2011).

• Interviewed by Yolande Cole, “Hosni Mubarak resignation wouldn’t equal regime change, says Vancouver historian,” Georgia Straight (February 10, 2011).

• Interviewed by Anca Gurzu, “Egyptian recognition pre-conditions panned,” Embassy (February 9, 2011).

• Interviewed by Yolande Cole, “SFU professor ‘extremely disappointed’ in Canadian response to Egypt protests,” Georgia Straight (February 4, 2011).