Research and Analysis
“Desert Nostalgia in Edith Wharton’s Wartime Writing,” Edith Wharton Review 38, no. 2 (2023): 144-166.
“Morocco Got the Best of President Trump as Part of Its New Agreement with Israel,” The Washington Post, 13 December 2020.
“Edith Wharton’s Moroccan Clichés,” History Today, 5 November 2020.
“A Postcard from Thessaloniki, Greece,” Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspectives, 22 January 2018
“An Islamicized Mausoleum for Maréchal Hubert Lyautey,” Hespéris-Tamuda, 52, no. 2, Fall 2017, pp. 151-177.
“The Road to Morocco,” Race in American Film, vol. 3, ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, 2017, pp. 743-745.
“The Wind and the Lion,” Race in American Cinema, vol. 3, ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, 2017, pp. 918-920.
“The Secular Roots of a Religious Divide in Contemporary Iraq,” Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspectives, 15 October 2015
“Love in the Desert: Images of Arab-American Reconciliation in Contemporary Sheikh Romance Novels,” Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5, no. 1, 2015
and Charity Tabol, “In Sickness and In Health: Representations of PTSD in Post-9/11 Romance Novels,” albeit. 2, no. 1, August 2015.
“The Casbah des Oudaya: The Colonial Production of a Historic District in Morocco,” in Place and Locality in Modern France, eds. Philip Whalen and Patrick Young, Bloomsbury Academic, 2014, pp. 91-102.
“Pomp and Circumstance: Royal Symbolism and the c Id al-Kabir Sacrifice in Morocco,” Arab Studies Journal 19, no. 1, Spring 2011, pp. 66-93.
“Muslim and Jewish Interaction in Moroccan Meat Markets, 1873-1912,” in Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa, eds. Daniel Schroeter and Emily Gottreich, Indiana University Press, 2011, pp. 150-167.
“The Voices of Iraqi Exiles,” Peace Review: a Journal of Social Justice 22, no. 1, Spring 2010, pp. 89-91.
“Famine’s Fortune: The Pre-Colonial Mechanisation of Moroccan Flour Production,” The Journal of North African Studies 71, no. 1, March 2010, pp. 71-84.
“The Legacy of French Colonialism: A Historian’s View of Preservation in Morocco’s Fez Medina,” APT Bulletin: The Journal of Preservation Technology, Association for Preservation Technology, 39, no. 4, 2008, pp. 5-11.
“Constructing an Archival Cityscape: Local Views of Colonial Urbanism in the French Protectorate of Morocco,” History in Africa: A Journal of Method, vol. 34, 2007, pp. 121-132.
“When It Pays to Be Medieval: Historic Preservation as a Colonial Policy in the Medina of Fez, 1912-1932,” Journal of the Historical Society, 6, no. 2, June 2006, pp. 297-316.
“Mauritanie, entre famine et démocratie,” Translated by Chiara Sulmoni, La letter du CERMAM (Centre d’Études et de Recherche sur le Monde Arabe et Méditerranéen à Genève) no. 12, May-June 2006, p. 5.
“Mauritanians Want Food, Not Democracy,” ISIM Review, International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, 17, Spring 2006, p. 33.
“Silk Road Conveys Powerful New Alliance,” Journal and Courier, Lafayette, IN, 23 March 2006, p. A4.
“Gendering War Zones in Colonial Algeria and Israel,” Urban History Newsletter 30, October 2003, pp. 3-4.
“Meat and Society in Colonial Fez,” ISIM Review, International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, 10, July 2002, p. 28. Orientation Handbook for Fulbright Scholars, Rabat: Moroccan-American Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange, 2001.