I am a historian of the modern Middle East, currently interested in the history of medicine in the region. My books include Policing Egyptian Women: Sex, Law, and Medicine in Khedival Egypt (2011) and Global Women, Colonial Ports: Prostitution in the Interwar Middle East (2017). I am co-edited with Cyrus Schayegh and Avner Wishnitzer - A Global Middle East: Mobility, Materiality and Culture in the Modern Age, 1880-1940 (2014) and with Davide Rodogno and Magaly Rodriguez Garcia - The League of Nations' Work on Social Issues: Visions, Endeavours and Experiments (2016). More recent publications explored the history of epidemics and of the medical profession in Egypt, mandate Palestine, and Israel.