Diane Singerman: Publications

Books:

Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East (American University in Cairo Press, 2006 with Paul Amar)

Avenues of Participation: Family, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo (Princeton University Press, 1995)

Development, Change, and Gender in Cairo: A View from the Household  (Indiana University Press, 1996 with Homa Hoodfar). 

Selected Articles:

“Restoring the Family to Civil Society: Lessons from Egypt.”  Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, 2:1 (Winter 2006): 1-32

“Rewriting Divorce in Egypt: Reclaiming Islam, Legal Activism, and Coalition Politics.”  In Remaking Muslim Politics: Pluralism, Contestation, Democratization, Robert Hefner, ed., 161-188. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005

“The Networked World of Islamist Social Movements.”  In Islamic Activism: A Social Movement Theory Approach, Quintan Wiktorowicz, ed., 143-163.  Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2004

“The Cost of Marriage in Egypt:  A Hidden Variable in the New Arab Demography and Poverty Research.”  Special Edition on “The New Arab Family,” Nick Hopkins, ed. Cairo Papers in the Social Sciences, 24 Spring 2001, 80-116 (Co-authored with Dr. Barbara Ibrahim [issued in 2003]).