Publications
PUBLICATIONS
Books
• Alexandria: The City That Changed the World (Hodder & Stoughton, UK 2023, Simon & Schuster, USA 2024); UK paperback 2024; USA paperback 2025.
Winner of the 'Runciman Award'Sunday Times Book of the YearTimes Literary Supplement Book of the YearWaterstones Book of the YearBooklist Book of the YearShortlisted for the 'London Hellenic Prize'Finalist for the 'Bernard Lewis Prize'
• Milton Across Borders and Media, ed. with Angelica Duran (Oxford University Press, 2023).
• Shakespeare and Terrorism
(Routledge, 2021); paperback 2021.
• Digital Milton, ed. with David Currell (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018); paperback 2019.
• Milton in Translation, ed. with Angelica Duran and Jonathan Olson (Oxford University Press, 2017); paperback 2021.
Winner of the Milton Society of America’s ‘Irene Samuel Memorial Award’
• Milton in the Arab-Muslim World
(Routledge, 2016); paperback 2018.
Winner of the Milton Society of America’s ‘Outstanding First Book Award’
Academic Journal Articles and Book Chapters
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Selected Magazine/Newspaper Articles
• “The Long Road to Paradise”, BBC History Magazine
(2024)
• “Alexandria: The ancient world's greatest city”, BBC History Magazine
(2024)
• “Julius Caesar and the Drama of Politics”, BBC History Magazine (2024)
• “Cleopatra was Egyptian”, Al Jazeera
(2023)
• “Why Arab Muslims love Paradise Lost – and their leaders hate it”, The Guardian
(2017)
• “12 things you didn’t know about Paradise Lost”, The New Statesman
(2017)
• “Milton’s Satan and the struggle for power”, Times Literary Supplement
(2017)
