Her research has concerned automobile technology, geographic mobility, and social life in Beirut, Lebanon in both historical and contemporary eras. This research has produced publications including The Insecure City: Space, Power, and Mobility in Beirut (Rutgers University Press, 2016) as well as articles in journals such History and Anthropology (2017), PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (2016), Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (2014), Anthropology of Work Review (2014), and City & Society (2011).