Recent publications include her monograph, Imagining Arab Womanhood: The Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in the U.S. (Palgrave Macmillan 2008), as well as articles about belly dancing in the U.S. (in The Cultural Politics of the Middle East in the Americas [forthcoming] and Arabs in the Americas). She works in the fields of Women's and Gender Studies, Arab American Studies, and Cultural Studies, and she is a member of AMWAJ: Arab Movement of Women Arising for Justice and of RAWAN: Radical Arab Women Activist Network. Currently, she is at work on a project about the popularity of the “sheikh” hero in mass-market romance novels, tentatively titled “‘To Catch a Sheik’ in the War on Terror: Reading Sheikh-Themed Romance Novels.”