She is the author of Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo (Duke 2005), which was a co-winner of the Sharon Stevens First Book Prize of the American Ethnological Society. Her most recent articles are “Next Practices: Knowledge, Infrastructure, and Public Goods at the Bottom of the Pyramid” (Public Culture 2012), “Before (and After) Neoliberalism: Tacit Knowledge, Secrets of the Trade, and the Public Sector in Egypt” (Cultural Anthropology 2012), and “The Political Economy of Movement and Gesture in Cairo (JRAI 2011). She is the co-editor of the online feature: “Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Egypt a Year after January 25th, with Jessica Winegar, Cultural Anthropology, January 2012.