Her interests in food security developed from a focus on questions of human security and political stability in the Middle East. Her research on food security in the Middle East adds another layer to considerations of ways in which non-traditional security questions affect political stability in the Middle East. Her publications include The Internet and the Middle East: Global Expectations and Local Imaginations in Kuwait (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006) and a wide range of articles and book chapters spanning a decade and a half of research on the Middle East. She has conducted fieldwork in Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel/Palestine, United Arab Emirates, Syria, Turkey, Kuwait and Oman.