She is the author of Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and the American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut (Leiden: Brill, 2016), which examines the growing significance of the visual dimensions of print technologies for Arabic-speaking Ottoman audiences at a time when Arab intellectuals were debating their varied communal concerns, political motivations, and conceptions of a modern society. Her research interests also include nineteenth century material culture in Europe and the Middle East, the history of Islamic manuscript practices, the politics of exhibiting and collecting Islamic Art, design history and theory, and the arts of the book in Asia.