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Book

• Egypt 1919: The Revolution in Literature and Film (Edinburgh University Press, 2020)
• Al-Qāhira fil adab al-miṣrī al-ḥadīth wal mu‘āṣir (Cairo in Modern and Contemporary Egyptian Literature, Cairo: al-Majlis al-a‘lā lil-thaqāfa, 2007)

Articles and Book Chapters

• Kamel Daoud: Documenting Algerian Reality between Literature and Journalism (in Arabic), Alif Journal of Comparative Poetics n°37, 2017, 96-117
• Mahfouz’ Cairo and Pamuk’s Istanbul: Cities of Historic and Cultural Upheaval (in Arabic), Alif Journal of Comparative Poetics n°35, 2015, 68-83
• Egyptian Narratives of the 2011 Revolution: Diary as a Medium of Reconciliation with the Political in Pannewick, Friederike and George Khalil, eds. Commitment and Beyond: Reflections on the Political in Arabic Literature since the 1940s. Wiesbaden: Reichert 2015, 63-75
• Reshaping Urban Imaginary: Cairo Malls in Two Contemporary Egyptian Novels, Arabica, vol. 58, n°6, 2011, 545-560
• Novels of Anger and Revolution (in Arabic), Jadaliyya, December 2011
• De la Ville Vertige à la Mégapole Fragmentée,  Lettre de l'OUCC n°6/7, 2005, 60-66
•  Imbaba is an Open City: a Study of Ibrahim Aslan’s The Heron, Amkina n°3, 2001, 95-114

Encyclopedia 

• Encyclopedia of Islam, Three, Edited by: Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, Everett Rowson. Leiden Boston: 2019. Ḥusayn, Muḥammad Kāmil, 61-63.
• Didier, Antoinette Fouque and Mireille Calle-Gruber, eds. Le Dictionnaire universel des créatrices, Paris, Editions des Femmes, 2013. Entries about 18 Palestinian women writers and a general article: Femmes de lettres and National Palestinian Movement

Book Reviews

•  Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism: An Archive, by Hala Halim. New York: Fordham UP. 2013 Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, Vol.43, n°2, December 2016, 571-573
• Gender, Nation and the Arabic Novel, Egypt, 1892-2008, by Hoda Elsadda. New York: Syracuse University Press and Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012, Comparative Literature Studies, Vol.51, n°2, 2014, 51-353
• Shawq al-Darwish, by Hammur Ziyada: Beware Faith, My Son, for it Sometimes Might Be as Devastating as Impiety, (Arabic), Jadaliyya. Arab Studies Institute, 20 February 2015
• 1919 by Ahmed Mourad: a Radical Attempt at Rewriting History That Fails to Translate the Revolution’s Spirit (Arabic), Jadaliyya. Arab Studies Institute, 18 June 2014

• PhD in Modern Arabic literature, 2004, University of Paris III–Sorbonne Nouvelle, France
• Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies, (DEA, present Master II) in Modern Arabic Literature, 1998, University of Paris IV–Sorbonne, France
• Master's in Modern Arabic Literature, 1997, University of Paris IV–Sorbonne, France