Books

Co-edited with Rema Hammami and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian.
Duke University Press. August 2023.

Edited Exhibition Catalogue. Skira, National Museum of Qatar, and Qatar Museums. 2022.
Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
Harvard University Press, 2013. 
Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt
Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.(American Ethnological Society Senior Book Prize, 2007)
Other English Editions: American University in Cairo Press, 2005. 
Writing Women’s Worlds: Bedouin Stories
University of California Press, 1993 (Victor Turner Prize, 1994). Fifteenth Anniversary Edition with new preface, 2008.

Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society
University of California Press, 1986  (IUAES Silver Medal; Chicago Folklore Prize, honorable mention). Second edition, updated with a new preface, 2000.

30thAnniversary Edition, with a new Afterword, September 2016.

Other English Editions: American University in Cairo Press, 1987.
Local Contexts of Islamism in Popular Media.
Amsterdam University Press, Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World Papers. 2006.  

Edited Books

Nakba: Palestine, 1948 and the Claims of Memory
Co-edited with Ahmad H. Sa`di.
Columbia University Press. The Cultures of History Series, 2007.

Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain
Co-edited with Faye Ginsburg and Brian Larkin.
University of California Press, 2002.
Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East
Edited.
Princeton University Press, Series in Culture/Power/History, 1998.
Other English Editions: American University in Cairo Press, 1998.
Language and the Politics of Emotion
Co‑edited with C. Lutz.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

The Politics of Feminist Politics
Special forum: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 35:1,
December 2015.

Women’s Rights, Muslim Family Law, and the Politics of Consent
Co-edited with Anupama Rao.  SOCIALDIFFERENCE-ONLINE, Vol. 1,
December 2011.

First Find Your Child a Good Mother: The Construction of Self in Two African Communities
by Paul Riesman (edited by David Szanton, Lila Abu‑Lughod, Sharon Hutchinson, Paul Stoller, and Carol Trosset).  New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press 1992.
Screening Politics in a World of Nations .
Guest Editor, Public Culture, 5(3): 465‑604 1993.