I am Professor of Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations and Fellow of St Antony's College. I am also a member of the Middle East Centre.
My research focuses on social movements and collective protest in the Arabic-speaking Middle East and North Africa.
My book, Egypt in a Time of Revolution, won the Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award. Results of my research have appeared in journals such as the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, and Political Analysis.
I am currently on research leave as a Mid-Career Fellow of the British Academy completing a book manuscript on the 1919 Egyptian Revolution.
Publications
Book
- Egypt in a Time of Revolution (Cambridge University Press), 2017
- Charles Tilly 2018 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award, American Sociological Association
Articles
- "Purging to Transform the Post-Colonial State: Evidence from the 1952 Egyptian Revolution" (with Gilad Wenig), Comparative Political Studies, Vol.58, No.1, 2025, pp. 3-42
- "Anti-Austerity Riots in Late Developing States: Evidence from the 1977 Egyptian Bread Intifada" (with Ferdinand Eibl and Jeroen Gunning), Journal of Peace Research, Vol.61, No.6, 2024, pp. 952-966
- "Explaining Recruitment to Extremism: A Bayesian Hierarchical Case-Control Approach" (with Roberto Cerina, Christopher Barrie, and Aaron Zellin), Political Analysis, Vol.32, No. 2, 2024, pp. 256-274
- "Beatings, Burnings, and Bombings: Disaggregating Anti-Christian Violence in Egypt, 2013-2018" (with Christopher Barrie and Killian Clarke), Perspectives on Politics, Vol.22, No.2, 2024, pp. 481-500
- "Online Calls for Protest and Offline Mobilization in Autocracies: Evidence from the 2017 Dey Protests in Iran" (with Muhammad Ali Kadivar, Abolfazl Sotoudeh-Sherbaf, and Christopher Barrie), European Sociological Review, FirstView, 2024
- "Plots, Attacks, and the Measurement of Terrorism" (with Thomas Hegghammer), Journal of Conflict Resolution, FirstView, 2023, p.1-27
- "Online Repression and Tactical Evasion: Evidence from the 2020 Day of Anger Protests in Egypt" (with Philipp Lutscher), Democratization, Vol.30, No.3, 2023, pp.325-345
- "Who Supported the Early Muslim Brotherhood?" (with Steven Brooke and Brynjar Lia), Politics and Religion, Vol.15, No.2, 2022, pp. 388-416
- "Unpopular Protest: Mass Mobilization and Attitudes to Democracy in Post-Mubarak Egypt" (withThoraya El-Rayyes), Journal of Politics, Vol.83, No.1, 2021, pp.291-305
- Best Data Set/Quantitative Analysis Award 2022, MENA Politics Section, American Political Science Association
- "After the Massacre: Women's Islamist Activism in Post-Coup Egypt" (with Sarah ElMasry), Middle East Law and Governance, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2020, pp. 86-108
- "Fridays of Revolution: Focal Days and Mass Protest in Egypt and Tunisia" (with Christopher Barrie), Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 2, 2020, pp. 308–324
- “Fraud in the 2018 Egyptian Presidential Election?” Mediterranean Politics, Vol.26, No.1, 2019, pp.117-129
- "Opportunity without Organization: Labor Mobilization in Egypt after the 25th January Revolution" (with Christopher Barrie) Mobilization, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2018, pp. 181-202
- "Social and Institutional Origins of Political Islam" (with Steven Brooke), American Political Science Review , Vol. 112, no. 2, 2018, pp. 376-394.
- “Sticks, Stones, and Molotov Cocktails: Unarmed Collective Violence and Democratization” (with Muhammad Ali Kadivar), Socius , Vol. 4, 2018, pp.1-16
- "The Educational Contexts of Islamist Activism: Elite Students and Religious Institutions in Egypt" (with Michael Biggs), Mobilization , Vol. 1, 2017, pp. 57-76
- “The Army and the People are One Hand! Fraternization and the 25th January Egyptian Revolution” Comparative Studies in Society and History , Vol. 1, 2014, pp. 155-186
