Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Academic Affiliation: Professor, City College
Co-Director, Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center, Graduate Center
Director, MA in Middle Eastern Studies, Graduate Center.
Carnegie Scholar, 2007.
Editor, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies

Office phone: 212-817-7574
E-Mail: Bbaron@gc.cuny.edu

Middle Eastern, Gender, History of Social Politics

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

"Nile Mother: Lillian Trasher and Egypt's Orphans," in Competing Kingdoms: Women, Mission, Nation, and American Empire, 1776-1960, ed. Barbara Reeves Ellington et al. (Duke University Press, in press).
"The Origins of Family Planning: Aziza Hussein, American Experts, and the Egyptian State," Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 4, no.3 (Fall 2008): 31-57.
“Orphans and Abandoned Children in Modern Egypt," in Between Missionaries and Dervishes: Interpreting Welfare in the Middle East, ed. Nefissa Neguib and Inger Marie Okkenhaug (Brill, 2008), 12-34.
“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.