She is the author of Wanderings:Sudanese Migrants and Exiles in North America (Cornell University Press, 2002);Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives (edited, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006);Transforming DisplacedWomen in Sudan (University of Chicago Press, 2009);editor of What is Left of the Left (edited, Duke University Press, 2011);and Gender Justice: the Predicament and the Promise (Brill, 2011). In addition to multiple chapters in refereed university presses, articles, and reviews, she is currently completing a book manuscript tentatively titled Darfur Allegory, which engages discussions on Darfur mediation in Qatar. She also authored a paper on "Qatar Mobility and Migration" (forthcoming) and is involved in ethnographic research on Qatari myths, folklore, and ethnomusicology.