Narratives of Middle Eastern Childhood, a collection of thirty personal "growing up" memories by men and women from fourteen countries (University of Texas Press, forthcoming 2002)

In Search of Islamic Feminism (Anchor/Doubleday, 1998, 1999, 2001)

The Arab World: Forty Years of Change, with Robert A. Fernea (Anchor/Doubleday, 1997)

Children of the Muslim Middle East, an edited collection (University of Texas Press, 1995)

The Struggle for Peace: Israelis and Palestinians, co-editor with Mary Evelyn Hocking (University of Texas Press, 1992)

Nubian Ethnographies, with Robert A. Fernea (Waveland Press, 1991)

The Arab World: Personal Encounters, with Robert A. Fernea (Anchor/Doubleday, 1985)

Women and the Family in the Middle East: New Voices of Change (Editor: University of Texas Press, 1985)

Middle Eastern Muslim Women Speak, a reader of primary sources co-edited with Basima Berzigan (University of Texas Press, 1977)