Her book Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism: An Archive (Fordham University Press, 2013) received an Honorable Mention for the Harry Levin Prize for First Book from the American Comparative Literature Association. She has translated two novels from Arabic: Mohamed El-Bisatie’s Clamor of the Lake—which received an Egyptian State Incentive Award in literature for translation and was selected as runner up for the first London-based Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation—and Mahmoud Al-Wardani’s Heads Ripe for Plucking. Her current projects include editing Bernard de Zogheb’s unpublished libretti and a study that develops her previous work on the Egyptian novelist and critic Edwar al-Kharrat.