Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Academic Affiliation: Professor, City College
Co-Director, Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center, Graduate Center
Office phone: 212-817-7570
E-Mail: Bbaron@gc.cuny.edu

Middle Eastern History, Gender History

Books

Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics (University of California Press, 2005).

The Women’s Awakening in Egypt: Culture, Society, and the Press (Yale University Press, 1994).

Edited Volumes

Iran and Beyond: Essays in Middle Eastern History in Honor of Nikki R. Keddie (Mazda, 2000), co-edited with Rudi Matthee.
 
Women in Middle Eastern History: Shifting Boundaries in Sex and Gender (Yale University Press, 1991), co-edited with Nikki R. Keddie. 

Recent Articles

“Women, Honour, and the State: Evidence from Egypt,” Middle Eastern Studies 42, no.1 (2006): 1-20.

“Women’s Voluntary Social Welfare Organizations in Egypt,” in Gender, Religion and Change in the Middle East: Two Hundred Years of History, ed. Inger Marie Okkenhaug and Ingvild Flaskerud (Berg, 2005), 85-102.