Books
Language and Change in the Arab Middle East (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987)
The Press in the Arab Middle East; A History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995)
A History of the Arab Press (Tel Aviv: Misrad ha-Bitahon, 2000; in Hebrew)
Reading Palestine: Printing and Literacy, 1900-1948 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004)
(Ed.), Regime and Opposition in Egypt under Sadat (Tel Aviv, 1983; in Hebrew)
(Ed.), Middle East Contemporary Survey, Vols. 12-17 (1988-1993) and (with Bruce Maddy-Weitzman) Vol. 18 (1994)
(Co-ed., with Gad Gilbar), Demography and Politics in the Arab States (Tel-Aviv, 1995; in Hebrew)
(Co-ed., with David Wasserstein), Madrasa: Education, Religion and State in the Middle East. Studies in Honor of Michael Winter (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 2004; in Hebrew).
(Co-ed., with David Wasserstein), Mamluks and Ottomans. Studies in Honor of Michael Winter (London: Routledge, 2005)
Articles
Article-length studies published in professional journals and collected volumes have centered on political ideas and institutions in the Middle East; the Arab press; modern Egyptian and Palestinian history; and the history of Arab printing and publishing. They include, most recently:
"Post-Ottoman Arab monarchies: old bottles, new labels?" in J. Kostiner (ed.), Middle East Monarchies. Boulder, CO, 2000, pp. 23-36.
"Hassun and Shidyaq: pencraft and survival in mid-nineteenth century Istanbul," in Jayne L. Warner (ed.), Cultural Horizons. Syracuse, 2001, pp. 59-68.
"Texts and their readers in late Ottoman Palestine," Middle Eastern Studies, October 2002, pp. 17-40.
"Christian ‘intruders’, Muslim ‘bigots’: The Egyptian-Syrian press controversy in late 19th century Cairo," in Tudor Parfitt (ed.), Jews, Muslims and Mass Media. London, 2004, pp. 15-27.
"Education and frustration in mandatory Palestine: the sad story of Ustadh Nacīm Salmān," in A. Ayalon and D. Wasserstein (eds.), Madrasa: Education, Religion and State in the Middle East. Studies in Honor of Michael Winter. Tel Aviv, 2004, pp. 175-88 (in Hebrew).
"The beginning of publishing in pre-1948 Palestine," Journal of Semitic Studies, Supplement 15 (2004), pp. 69-80.
"The Syrian educated elite and the literary nahda," in I. Weismann and F. Zachs (eds.), Ottoman Reform and Islamic Regeneration. London, 2005, pp. 127-148.
"War, cholera and media scandal: the re-conquest of Sudan and the Egyptian press, 1896," ha-Mizrah he-Hadash, 2008, pp. 77-89 (in Hebrew).
"Inscribing the Public Domain: Arab Placards, Proclamations and Handbills," Journal of Semitic Studies, Supplement 24 (2008), pp. 155-164, 304-313.
"Private publishing in the nahḍa," International Journal of Middle East Studies, 40 (2008), pp. 561-577.
"Arab booksellers and bookshops in the age of printing, 1850-1914," British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 37 (2010), pp. 73-93.
"Was there a printing revolution in the Middle East?" Zmanim, 112 (2010), pp. 50-59 (in Hebrew).
"The press and publishing", in The New Cambridge History of Islam, Vol. 6: Muslims and Modernity: Culture and Society since 1800" (Cambridge, 2010), pp. 572-596.
"'Al-ādab al-zāhira': literary endeavor in pre-1908 Palestine," in M. Ghanaim and D. Wasserstein (eds.), Studies in Honor of Sasson Somekh (forthcoming).
Articles he contributed to the Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd Ed., include: "Malik," "Shacb," "al-Takfīr wa'l-Hidjra," "Tacrīb," "Thawra" and "Walī al-cAhd," among other.