Books
- The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life (2012)
- Lord Cromer: Victorian Imperialist, Edwardian Proconsul (2004)
- State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East (2004)
- The Middle East in the World Economy, 1800-1914 (1993)
- Cotton and the Egyptian Economy, 1820-1914: A Study in Trade and Development (1969)
Articles
- 'British and French Military Intelligence in Syria and Palestine, 1914–1918: Myths and Reality' (2011)
- 'British and French Intelligence in their Modern Middle Eastern Empires' (2009)
- 'Reconstructing the Performance of the Iraqi Economy, 1950-2006: An Essay with Some Hypotheses and Many Questions' (2006)
- 'The Rapid Growth of Egypt’s Agricultural Output 1890–1914 As an Early Example of the Green Revolutions of Modern South Asia: Some Implications for the Writing of Global History' (2006)
- 'The Population Census of 1917 and its Relationship to Egypt's Three 19th Century Statistical Regimes' (1996)
- 'The Study of Middle Eastern Industrial History: Notes on the Interrelationship between Factories and Small-Scale Manufacturing with Special References to Lebanese Silk and Egyptian Sugar, 1900-1930' (1984)
- 'Lord Cromer and the Development of Egyptian Industry, 1883–1907' (1966)
- 'The Influence of Lord Cromer's Indian Experience on British Policy in Egypt, 1883-1907' (1965)
