Books
The Book of Travels (New York: NYU Press, 2021).
The World in a Book: al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition (Princeton University Press, 2018).
The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition (New York: Penguin, 2016).
The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016).
Articles and book chapters
“Realms of Information in the Medieval Islamic World.” In Information: A Historical Companion. Edited by Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja Goeing, and Anthony Grafton. (Princeton University Press, 2021).
“The Art of Copying: Mamluk Manuscript Culture in Theory and Practice.” In Autograph/holograph and authorial manuscripts in Arabic script. Edited by Frédéric Bauden and Élise Franssen. Leiden: Brill, 2020.
“What Does ‘Born Digital’ Mean?” International Journal of Middle East Studies 50 (2018): 110-112.
“Islamic & Middle East Studies and the Digital Turn.” In The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies, edited by Elias Muhanna, 1-9. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016.
“The Scattered and the Gathered: Questioning Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi.” In Essays in Islamic Philology, History, and Philosophy, edited by Alireza Korangy, Roy P. Mottahedeh, and William Granara. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016.
Articles for Encyclopaedia of Islam Three: “Encyclopaedias, Arabic”; “Ibn Hamdun”; “Ibn Fadl Allah (in press, forthcoming 2018).
“Why Was the 14th Century a Century of Arabic Encyclopaedism?” In Encyclopaedias and Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance, edited by Jason König and Greg Woolf, 343-56. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
“The Sultan’s New Clothes: Ottoman-Mamluk Gift Exchange in the 15th Century.” Muqarnas 27 (2010): 189-207. (Winner of the Margaret B. Sevcenko Prize from the Historians of Islamic Art Association)
“Ilyâs al-Mawsilî.” In Essays in Arabic Literary Biography, c. 1350-1830, edited by J. Lowry & D. Stewart. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2009.
Selected essays and commentary
“Near Past,” The New Yorker (Talk of the Town, Feb. 11, 2019)
“Piano Lessons in the Panopticon,” The New York Times (Opinion, September 16, 2018).
“A New History of Arabia, Written in Stone,” The New Yorker (Culture Desk, online edition), May 23, 2018.
“Mashrou‘ Leila and the Nightclub’s Political Power,” The New Yorker (online), July 31, 2017.
“What Gertrude Bell’s Letters Remind Us About the Founding of Iraq,” The New Yorker (online), June 14, 2017.
“The Contradictions of Reza Aslan’s ‘Believer’ ,” The New Yorker (online), Apr. 19, 2017.
“A Lesson in Emotional Geography,” The New York Times (opinion), Nov. 19, 2016.
“The Fate of a Joke in Lebanon,” The New Yorker (News Desk, online edition), Sept. 26, 2015.
“Hacking the Humanities,” The New Yorker (Culture Desk, online edition), July 7, 2015.
“Iraq and Syria’s Poetic Borders,” The New Yorker (Page-Turner, online edition), August 13, 2014.
“Translating ‘Frozen’ into Arabic,” The New Yorker (Page-Turner, online edition), May 30, 2014.
“Letter from Lebanon: A Bookshop Burns,” The New Yorker (Page-Turner, online), Jan. 16, 2014.
Book reviews
Shahab Ahmed, What is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic, in The Nation (Jan. 6-11, 2016).
Carl Petry, The Criminal Underworld in a Medieval Islamic Society, in Mamluk Studies Review 18 (2014-15): 355-57.
Ramzi Baalbaki, Saleh Said Agha and Tarif Khalidi, eds., Poetry and History: The Value of Poetry in Reconstructing Arab History, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 73.1 (April 2014): 176-78.
Matthew Ingalls, “Subtle Innovation within Networks of Convention: The Life, Thought, and Legacy of Zakariyya al-Ansari,” Ph.D. diss., Yale (2011), in Dissertation Reviews (May 10, 2013).
Reza Aslan, Tablet and Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East, in The Nation (Aug 29, 2011).
Michael Young, The Ghosts of Martyrs Square: An Eyewitness Account of Lebanon’s Life Struggle, in The Nation (July 15, 2010).
Eugene Rogan’s, The Arabs: A History, in The National (December 4, 2009).
