Publications

Books:

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

“Becoming an Ex: Dynamics of Disengagement from Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood after 2011” Middle East Law and Governance, Vol. 13, Issue: 2, June 2021 pp. 215-231. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/18763375-13020002 (co-author)

“Devout Neoliberalism?! Explaining Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood's Socio-economic Perspective and Policies,” Politics and Religion, Vol. 13, Issue 4, December 2020, pp. 748-767. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755048320000085

“The Inclusion-Moderation Thesis: Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, August 2019. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1332

“Rethinking the Repression-Dissent Nexus: Assessing Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood’s Response to Repression since the Coup of 2013.” Democratization, 2019, VOL. 26, NO. 8, 1329–1341.

“The Muslim Brotherhood’s Conception of Citizenship Rights in Egypt.” Contemporary Arab Affairs, Vol. 11 No. 3, September 2018; (pp. 25-46)

“Upended Path: The Rise and Fall of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood”, The Middle East Journal, Vol. 69, No. 4, Fall 2015, pp. 527-543, view online

‘Pious Way to Politics: The Rise of Political Salafism in Egypt in Post-Mubarak Egypt’, Digest of Middle East Studies, Vol. 22:1, April, view online

“The Advent of Islamic Democracy in MENA”, Policy Brief no. 49 the European Institute of the Mediterranean.

‘The Power of the Jama‘a: The Role of Hasan al-Banna in Constructing the Collective Identity of the Muslim Brotherhood’, Sociology of Islam, Vol. 1, Issue 1, view online

‘Islamist Parties in the post-Arab Spring”, Mediterranean Politics, vol. 17, issue 3, view online

‘Religion in Egypt’s Public Sphere after the Revolution’, (Doha: Doha Institute), view online

2010. 'The Myth of Excluding Moderate Islamists in the Arab World', Policy Paper No. 4, The Brookings Institute, Washington: D.C. view online

2009. ‘Young Brotherhood in Search for New Path’, Current Trends in Islamist Ideology Journal, Vol.9, October 2009, view online

2009. ‘Jihadists Revisionism: Will It Save the World?’, Middle East Brief, Crown Center of Middle East Studies, Brandies University, No. 35. view online

Refereed chapters:

2017. “Unpacking the Sacred Canopy: Egypt’s Salafis between Religion and Politics”, in Francesco Cavatorta and Fabio Merone (Ed.), Salafism After The Arab Awakening: Contending with People’s Power, (London: Hurst), Hardback: 9781849044868
2014. “Democratic Deficit in Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood”, in Larbi Sadiki (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of the Arab Spring: Rethinking Democratization, (London: Routledge Publications) Hardback: 978-0-415-52391-22012
2013. "Egypt: The New Puritans", in Robin Wright (Ed.) The Islamists Are Coming: Who They Really Are, (Washington: USIP Press)
2012. "Egypt and the EU in the Post-Mubarak Era’, in ‘The Future of the Mediterranean: Which Way for Europe and North Africa?’, (Berlin: Bertelsmann Stiftung) ISSN: 1868-5048.

Policy papers and Op-Eds (selected):

The Sudan Crisis: How Regional Actors’ Competing Interests Fuel the Conflict, May 11, 2023
'Extremism Under Sisi', Foreign Affairs, January 8, 2017.
'Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Faces a Dilemma: Religion or Politics?' Washington Post, June 20, 2016.
ISIS Enters Egypt, Foreign Affairs, December 4, 2012.
ISIS-ifcation of Islamist Politics, Washington Post, January 30, 2015
Whither Political Islam?, Al-Jazeera English, December 2013
Desacralization of Islamism, Foreign Policy, 11 February 2013.
Rethinking the Muslim Brotherhood, Foreign Policy, 17 December 2012
The Political Economy of Islamist Parties, Al-Monitor, 23 August 2012.
‘Egypt’s Blessed Salafi Votes, Foreign Policy, 2/5/2012
‘The Embattled Brothers’, Egypt Independent, 19/4/2012
‘The Advent of Informal Islamists’, Foreign Policy, 19/3/2012
“Old Habits Die Hard”, Foreign Policy, 31/1/ 2012.
‘The Illusive Rise of Islamist’, Foreign Policy, 8/12/ 2011.