"And the Twain Shall Meet: Connecting Africa and the Middle East" 
POMEPS Studies 40 - Africa and the Middle East: Beyond the Divides - June 2020

"National Identity in the Afro-Arab Periphery: Ethnicity, Indigeneity and (anti) Racism in Morocco"
POMEPS Studies 40 - Africa and the Middle East: Beyond the Divides - June 2020

"So Why Did I Defend Paul Bowles" 
New York Review of Books - December 2019

"Du Bois, Ghana and Cairo Jazz: The Geo-Politics of Malcom X" 
in Olivia Rutazibwa and Robbie Shilliam eds., The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Politics (Routledge 2018)

"Juan Goytisolo: Tangier, Havana and the Treasonous Intellectual" 
Middle East Report (MERIP), 282 - Spring 2017

"The Grand (Hip-Hop) Chessboard: Race, Rap and Raison d'Etat"
Middle East Report (MERIP), 260 - Fall 2011

"Privatization and Exclusion" in Redeploying the State: Corporatism, NeoLiberalism and Coalition Politics in Egypt and Mexico (Palgrave 2009)

"The Founding Moment: Elite Conflict, Coalition Formation, and Regime Consolidation" in Redeploying the State: Corporatism, NeoLiberalism and Coalition Politics in Egypt and Mexico (Palgrave 2009)

"The Politics of Privatization" in Redeploying the State: Corporatism, NeoLiberalism and Coalition Politics in Egypt and Mexico (Palgrave 2009)

"Introduction: The Early Muslim Presence and its Significance"
in Manning Marable and Hisham Aïdi eds. Black Routes to Islam (Palgrave 2009)

"The Interference of al-Andalus: Spain, Islam and the West" 
Social Text (2006) 24 (2 (87)): 67–88

"Slavery, Genocide and the Politics of Outrage Understanding the New Racial Olympics" 
Middle East Report (MERIP), 234 - Spring 2005

"Let Us Be Moors"
Middle East Report (MERIP), 229 - Winter 2003

"Jihadis in the Hood" 
Middle East Report (MERIP), 224 - Fall 2002

"Facing up to the Failure of Racial Democracy in Brazil" 
in Kwesi Kwaa Prah (ed.) Racism in the Global African Experience (Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS) 2006)