- Love and Sacrifice in Contemporary Egyptian Literature (2008)
- Reimagining Islam: Gender Reform in Egypt and Beyond (2014)
Articles and Chapters in Books
- "The Veil Between Gender and the Divine: Nawal El Saadawi's Novels." Journal of Arabic Literature 41, no. 2 (2010): 233-248.
- "Gender, Religion, and Politics in Egypt: Prospects for Reform." In Democratization in the Arab World: Pathways and Paradoxes, edited by Bassil A. A. Akarli, 203-220. London: Routledge, 2012.
- "Islam and Gender Equality: The Case of Egypt." In Gender Equality and Religion, edited by Inger Skjelsbæk and Elin Bjarnegård, 215-229. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- "Religion and Gender in Egypt after the Arab Spring." In The Arab Spring: Transformations and Evolutions in the Middle East and North Africa, edited by Michele Dunne and Özlem Tür, 223-243. London: Routledge, 2015.
- "Gender, Religion, and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa: Reflections on the Tunisian and Egyptian Cases." In Gender and the Future of the Middle East, edited by Nadje Al-Ali, Sarah Ben Néfissa, and Ruba Salih, 133-152. London: Zed Books, 2016.
- "The #MeToo Movement and Gender-Based Violence in the Middle East and North Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco." In The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Development in the Middle East and North Africa, edited by Asef Bayat, Dina H. Shehata, and Samar A. Habib, 433-449. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
- "Gender, Religion, and State in Egypt: Past, Present, and Future." In The Routledge Handbook of Gender in South Asia and the Middle East, edited by Shahrzad Mojab and Nancy E. Gallagher, 275-290. London: Routledge, 2020.