Dancing in Damascus (Routledge, 2017)

Tribal Modern: Branding New Nations in the Arab Gulf (University of California Press, 2014)

Nazira Zeineddine: Biography of an Islamic Feminist Pioneer (Oneworld Press ,2010)

Mediterranean Passages: Readings from Dido to Derrida (UNC Press, 2008)

Dissident Syria. Making Oppositional Arts Official (Duke University Press 2007)

سورية الأخرى ؛ صناعة الفن المعارض (Arabic translation, 2018)

Muslim Networks: From Hajj to Hip Hop (UNC Press, 2005)

Women Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature (Routledge, 2001)

Hayati, My Life: A Novel (Arabic Translation, 2004)

Hayati, My Life: A Novel (Syracuse University Press, 2000)

Women and the War Story (University of California Press, 1997)

Blood Into Ink: 20th Century South Asian and Middle Eastern Women Write War (Westview Press, 1994)