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Books

The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom (University of California Press 2022)

Global Islamophobia and the Rise of Populism (eds. Sahar F. Aziz and John L. Esposito) (Oxford Press 2024)

Articles

Race, Entrapment and Manufacturing “Homegrown Terrorism,” 3 Georgetown L.J. 381 (2023)

States Sponsored Radicalization, 27 Mich. J. Race & L. 125 (2021)

Fear of a Black and Brown Internet: Policing Online Activism, 100 Boston U. L. Rev. 1153 (2020) (co-author Khaled Beydoun)

The Authoritarianization of U.S. Counterterrorism, 75 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1573 (2018)

A Muslim Registry: The Precursor to Internment?, 2018 B.Y.U. L. Rev. 101 (2018)

Losing the “War of Ideas:” A Critique of Countering Violent Extremism Programs, 52 Tex. Int’l L. J. 255 (2017)

Rethinking Counterterrorism in the Age of ISIS: Lessons from Sinai, 95 Neb. L. Rev. 307 (2016)

Independence without Accountability: The Judicial Paradox of Egypt’s Failed Transition to Democracy, 120 Penn State. L. Rev. 1 (2016)

Coercive Assimilationism: The Perils of Muslim Women’s Identity Performance in the Workplace, 20 Mich. J. Race & L. 1 (2014)

Policing Terrorists in the Community, 5 Harvard Nat’l Sec. J. 147 (2014)

From the Oppressed to the Terrorist: Muslim American Women in the Crosshairs of Intersectionality, 9 Hastings Race & Pov. L. J. 191 (2012)

Caught in a Preventive Dragnet: Selective Counterterrorism in a Post-9/11 America, 47 Gonzaga L. Rev. 429 (2012)

Essays

Racing Religion in the Palestine-Israel Discourse, 118 American J. Int’l L. Unbound (2024)

Reflections on Security, Race and Rights Twenty Years After 9/11, 12 J. Nat’l Sec. L. 135 (2021)

Identity Politics is Failing Women in Legal Academia, 69 J. Legal Educ. 14 (August 2019)

Toward Empowerment and Sustainability: Reforming America’s Syrian Refugee Policy, Center for Security, Race and Rights (2019)

Islam on Trial, Boston Review (March 1, 2017)

De-Securitizing Counterterrorism in the Sinai Peninsula, Brookings Institution Doha Center (2017)

Global Conflict and Populism in a Post-9/11 World, 52 Tulsa L. Rev. 101 (2017)

Democracy, Like Revolution, is Unattainable Without Women, United States Institute for Peace (2013)

Egypt’s Protracted Revolution, 19:3 Human Rights Brief 1 (2012)

Citizens, Not Subjects: Debunking the Sectarian Narrative of Bahrain’s Pro-Democracy Movement, Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (2011)

Book Chapters

Different Name, Same Aim: Targeting Muslims in “Soft Counterterrorism,” in Politiques de Deradicalisation (eds. Julliette Galonnier, Stephane Lacroix, and Nadia Marzouki) (Les Presses de la Fondation Nationale de Sciences Politiques, forthcoming 2023)

Legally White, Socially Brown: Racialization of Middle Eastern Americans, Routledge Handbook on Islam and Race (ed. Zain Abdullah) (2024)

Whosoever Sees an Evil: Muslim Americans’ Human Rights Advocacy, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion (2022)

Orientalism, Empire and The Racial Muslim, in Overcoming Orientalism (ed. Tamara Sonn) (Oxford Press 2021)

Commentary on Webb v. City of Philadelphia, in Feminist Judgements: Employment Discrimination Opinions Rewritten (eds. Ann McGinley & Nicole Porter) (Cambridge Press 2020)

Coercive Assimilationism and Muslim Women’s Identity Performance in the Workplace, in Islamophobia and the Law (eds. Khaled Beydoun & Cyra Choudry) (Cambridge Press 2020)

Theater or Transitional Justice: Reforming the Judiciary in Egypt, in Transitional Justice in the Middle East and North Africa (ed. Chandra Lekha Sriram) (Hurst 2017)

(De)Liberalizing Judicial Independence in Egypt, in Egypt and the Contradictions of Liberalism: Illiberalism, Intelligentsia and the Future of Egyptian Democracy (eds. Dalia F. Fahmy and Daanish Faruqi) (OneWorld 2017)

Egypt’s Revolution Turned Uprising, in Egypt Beyond Tahrir (ed. Bessma Momain & Eid Mohamed, Indiana Press 2016)

Terror(izing) The ‘Veil,’ The Rule of Law and the Rule of God (ed. Simeon Elsanmi) (Palsgraf Press 2014)

Bibliography

Books Addressing Muslims or Islam in America (1965-2023) (Sahar Aziz, Rebecca Hankins, and Cynthia Burress)