Journal Articles and Book Chapters 

(2023) “Is Iran on the Verge of Another Revolution?”, Journal of Democracy, March 2023.

(2021) “Islamic Movements”, in David Snow, Donaltella della Porta, Bert Klandermans, and Doug McAdam, (eds.) Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements, Oxford and New York, Blackwell, 2021, revised and extended.

(2021) “After the Arab Spring”, in Abdelwahab El-Affendi, ed., Transition Theory after the Arab Spring: The Impact of the ‘Arab Moment’ on Political Thinking on Revolutions, Democracy and Political Change, Edinburgh University Press, 2021.

(2021)“Arab Spring and Revolutionary Theory: An Intervention in a Debate”, Journal of Historical Sociology, vol. 34, issue 2, June 2021.

(2021) “Global Middle East”, in A. Bayat and L. Herrera, eds. Global Middle East: Into the 21st Century, University of California Press, 2021.

(2021) “Global Tahrir”, in A. Bayat and L. Herrera, eds. Global Middle East: Into the 21st Century, University of California Press, 2021.

(2020) “Arab Uprisings in the Modern Middle East”, in Omnia El-Shakry, ed., Understanding and Teaching the Modern Middle East, University of Wisconsin Press, Harvey Goldberg Series for Understanding and Teaching History, 2020.

(2019) “Imagining Post-Islamist Democracy”, in Markus Schulz, ed. Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World, New York, Sage Publications, 2019 (forthcoming)

(2019) “Arab Uprisings in the Modern Middle East”, in Omnia El-Shakry, ed., Understanding and Teaching the Modern Middle East, University of Wisconsin Press, Harvey Goldberg Series for Understanding and Teaching History, 2019 (forthcoming).

(2019) “Global Tahrir”, in A. Bayat and L. Herrera, eds. Global Middle East: Into the 21st Century, University of California Press, 2019 (forthcoming)

(2019) “After the Arab Spring”, in Abdelwahab El-Affendi, ed., Transition Theory after the Arab Spring: The Impact of the ‘Arab Moment’ on Political Thinking on Revolutions, Democracy and Political Change, London, Palgrave, 2019 (forthcoming)

(2017) “Is There a Youth Politics?”, Middle East Topics and Arguments, Fall 2017.

(2016) “Foreword” to Understanding Southern Social Movements, edited by Simin Fedaee, London and New York, Routledge, 2016.

(2018) “Plebeians of the Arab Spring”, Current Anthropology, vol. 56, no. 11, October 2015.

(2014) “Arab Revolts in Post-Islamist Times”, foreword to Are Kundsen and Bassem Ezbidi, eds., Popular Protest in the New Middle East: Islamism and Post-Islamist Politics, London-New York: I.B. Tauris, 2014.

(2013) “The Making of Post-Islamist Iran”, in A. Bayat, ed., Post-Islamism: The Changing Faces of Political Islam, New York, Oxford University Press, 2013.

(2013) “Egypt and Its Unsettled Islamism”, in A. Bayat, ed., Post-Islamism: The Changing Faces of Political Islam”, New York, Oxford University Press, 2013.

(2013) “Revolution in Bad Times”, New Left Review, No. 80, March/April 2013 (published also in Chinese, Spanish, Persian, Arabic, Turkish).

(2013) “Arab Spring and Its Surprises”, Development and Change, vol. 44, issue 2, April 2013).

(2013) “Areas and Ideas”, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, vol. 33, no. 3, 2013.

(2013) “Politics in the City Inside-Out”, City and Society, vol. 24, no. 2, 2012, pp. 110-128. 

(2012) “Islamic Movements”, in David Snow, et al (eds.) Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements, Oxford and New York, Blackwell, 2012.

(2011) “Our Revolution is Civil”, The Hedgehog Review, vol. 13, no. 3, Fall 2011.

(2011) “The Post-Islamist Revolutions”, Foreign Affairs, April 26, 2011; also in French in TUMULTES, Nos 38-39, 2012; also in Arabic (Cairo) and Persian (Tehran).

(2011) “Marginality: Curse or Cure?”, in Ray Bush and Habib Ayeb (eds.) Marginality and Exclusion in Egypt, London, Zed Books, 2011.

(2011) “Cristianos coptos egiptos entre el conflict y la convivencia”, VANGUARDUA dossier, no. 39, April/June 2011, pp. 49-54. 

(2011) “Arab Revolts: Islamists Are Not Coming”, Insight Turkey, vol. 13, no. 2, 2011. 

(2010) “Tehran, Paradox City”, New Left Review, no. 66, November-December 2010 (also published in German, Romanian, Turkish, and Persian).

(2010) “Muslim Youth and the Claim of Youthfulness”, in Asef Bayat and Linda Herrera, eds. Being Young and Muslim: New Cultural Politics in the Global South and North, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010.

(2010) “Being Young and Muslim in Neoliberal Times”, in Asef Bayat and Linda Herrera (eds.) Being Young and Muslim: New Cultural Politics in the Global South and North, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010.

(2009) “Islam, Democracy, and Social Movements”, in Maria Stephan, ed., Civilian Jihad: Nonviolent Struggle, Democratization and Governance in the Middle East, New York and London: Palgrave, 2009. 

(2009) Cities of Extremes (edited with Kees Biekart), special issue of Development and Change, vol. 40, no. 5, September 2009.

(2009) “Thirty Years of an Islamic Revolution That Never Was”, Eutopia, no. 21, September 2009, in Dutch (Amsterdam).

(2009) “Iran: Green Wave for Life and Liberty”, Open Democracy, 7 July 2009; published also in Turkish in Dogudan, and Arabic in Al-Akhbar, 27 July 2009. Reprinted in Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel (eds.), The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future, New York: Melville House, 2011.

(2008) “Islamism and Empire”, in Leo Panitch and Colin Leys, eds., Global Flashpoints: Reactions to Imperialism and Neoliberalism, especial issue of Socialist Register 2008, London, Merlin Press, 2008, pp. 38-54.

(2008) “Is There a Future for Islamic Revolutions? Religion and Revolt in the Middle Eastern Modernity”, in John Foran, David Lane, and Andreja Zivkovic, eds., Revolution in the Making of the Modern World: Social Identities, Globalization, and Modernity, London, Routledge, 2008.

(2008) “Cairo Cosmopolitan: Living Together through Communal Divide, Almost”, in Shail Mayaram, ed. The Other Global City, London: Routledge, 2008.

(2007) “Islamism and the Politics of Fun”, Public Culture, vol. 19, no. 3, October 2007; also published in Arabic inIdafat, no. 7, spring 2009.

(2007) “When Muslims and Modernity Meet”, Contemporary Sociology, vol. 36, no. 6, November 2007.

(2007) “Radical Religion and the Habitus of the Dispossessed: Does Islamic Militancy Have an Urban Ecology?”International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol. 31, no. 3, September 2007.

(2007) “Islam and Democracy: What is the Real Question?”, ISIM Paper series no. 8, Leiden/Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2007; reprinted in Ricardo Blaug and John Schwarzmantel, eds., Democracy: A Reader, New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.

(2007) “A Women’s Non-Movement: What It Means to Be a Woman Activist in an Islamic State?”, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, vol. 27, no. 1, 2007.

(2006) “Politik der Strasse: Armutsbevolkerung und Stadtisches Handelen”, in Sandra Schafer, J. Becker, M. Bernstoff, eds. Kabul/Teheran 1979ff: Filmlandschaften, Stadte unter Stress und Migration, Berlin: Metro Zones 6, 2006.

(2005) “The Political Economy of Social Policy in Egypt”, in M. Karshenas and V. Moghadam, eds. Social Policy and Development in the Middle East and North Africa, London, Palgrave, 2005.

(2005) “Streets of Revolution”, in Akbar Nazemi, ed. Unsent Dispatches from the Iranian Revolution, Vancouver, Presentation House Gallery (Vancouver), 2005.

(2005) “Islamism and Social Movement Theory”, Third World Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 6, July 2005, pp. 891-908 (London).

(2005) “Transforming the Arab World: The ‘Arab Human Development Report’ and the Politics of Change”,Development and Change, vol. 36, no. 6, Forum 2005 (The Hague).

(2004) “Quiet Encroachment of the Ordinary: Cairo’s Subaltern”, in Tamass: Contemporary Art Representation, No. 2, special Issue on Cairo (Rotterdam), 2004; reprinted also in Chimurenga, no. 11, July 2007 (South Africa). 

(2003) “The ‘Street’ and the Politics of Dissent in the Arab World”, Middle East Report, spring, No. 226, March 2003 (Washington, D.C.); revised and reprinted in Jeannie Sowers and Chris Toensing (eds.) Revolution, Protest, and Social Change in Egypt, 1999-2011, London, Verso, 2012.

(2002) “Revolutionary Iran and Egypt: Exporting Inspirations and Anxieties”, in Nikki Keddie and Rudlof Matthee (eds.)Iran and the Surrounding World Since 1500: Interactions in Culture and Cultural Politics, (with Bahman Baktiari), Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2002, pp. 305-326.

(2002) “Egypt: Twenty Years of Urban Transformation”, Urban Change Working paper no. 5, London, International Institute of Environment and Development, 2002. 

(2001) “Activism and Social Development in the Middle East”, International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 34, no. 1, February 2002, pp. 1-28. A more extended version published in Transnational Associations, 2001, no. 2, pp. 74-98 (Brussels); also reprinted in Kees Koonings and Dirk Kruijt (eds.) Megacities, London, Zed Books, 2009.

(2001) “Studying Middle Eastern Societies: Imperatives and Modalities of Thinking Comparatively”, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, vol. 35, no. 2, Winter 2001, pp. 151-158.

(2001) “Does Class Ever Opt Out of the Nation? Nationalist Modernization and Labor in Iran”, in Willem van Schendel and Erik Zurcher (eds.) Identity Politics in Central Asia and the Muslim World, London, 2001, I.B. Tauris, pp. 189-207. 

(2000) “Who is Afraid of the Ashwaiyyat? Urban Change and Politics in Egypt”, Environment and Urbanization (with Eric Davis), vol. 12, no. 2, October 2000, pp. 185-199 (London).

(2000) “From ‘Dangerous Classes’ to Quiet Rebels: Politics of Urban Subaltern in the Global South”, International Sociology, vol. 15, no. 3, September 2000, pp. 533-557 (USA). Reprinted in Ananya Roy and Nezar Alsayyad, eds. Urban Informality: The Middle East, South Asia and Latin American in an Era of Globalization , New York, Lexington Books, 2003. Reprinted also in Timothy Gibson and Mark Lowes, eds., Urban Communication: Production, Texts, Contexts, New York, Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. 

(1999) “Urban Egypt: Towards a Post-Metropolization Era?”, Cairo Papers in Social Science, (with Eric Denis), vol. 21, no. 4, Winter 1999, pp. 8-27 (Cairo). 

(1999) "Revolution without Movement, Movement without Revolution: Comparing Islamist Activism in Iran and Egypt", Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 40, no. 1, spring 1998, pp. 136-169. Reprinted inRevolutions: Critical Concepts, 4 vols. edited by Rosemary O’Kane, London: Routledge, 1999. Reprinted also in Laleh Khalili, ed. Politics of the Modern Arab World: Critical Concepts in the Modern Politics of the Middle East, London, Routledge, 2008.

(1997) “Workless Revolutionaries: The Movement of the Unemployed in the Post-Revolutionary Iran, 1979",International Review of Social History, vol. 24, no. 2, August 1997 (Amsterdam), pp. 159-185; reprinted in Stephanie Cronin, ed. Subalterns and Social Protest: History from Below in the Middle East and North Africa, London: Rutledge (2008). 

(1997) “Democratizing Liberalization: Worker Participation, Adjustment and Development”, in Alia El-Mahdi, ed., Aspects of Structural Adjustment in Africa and Egypt, Cairo, Cairo University (Center for the Study of Developing Countries), 1997. 

(1997) "Un-Civil Society: The Politics of the 'Informal People", Third World Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 1, 1997 (London), pp. 53-72; reprinted in T. Christiansen and C. Neuhold (eds.) International Handbook on Informal Governance(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012).

(1997) "Cairo's Poor: Dilemmas of Survival and Solidarity", Middle East Report, issue 202, January/February 1997 (Washington, DC), pp. 7-12. 

(1997) "Cairo: Power, Poverty and Urban Survival" Edited (with Karim El-Gawhari), special issue of Middle East Report, January-February 1997, issue 202. 

(1996) "The Coming of a Post-Islamist Society", Critique: Critical Middle East Studies, no. 9, Fall 1996, University of Hamline (Minnesota), pp. 43-52.

(1994) "Class, Historiography, and Iranian Workers", in Z. Lockman (ed.) Workers and Working Classes in the Middle East: Struggles, histories, historiographies, New York: State University of New York Press, 1994, pp. 165-210.

(1994) "Back-Street Politics: Squatters and the state in the Islamic Republic", Middle East Reports, issue 191, vol. 24, no. 6, November/December 1994 (Washington, DC), 10-14.

(1993) "Populism, Liberalization and Popular Participation: Industrial Democracy in Egypt", Economic and Industrial Democracy, vol. 14, no. 1, 1993 (Stockholm), pp. 65-87.

(1992) "Work Ethics in Islam: A Comparison with Protestantism", The Islamic Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 2, 1992 (London), pp. 5-27.

(1990) "Karl Marx and Ali Shariati", Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 9, April 1990 (Cairo), pp. 19-41. 

(1989) "Capital Accumulation, Political Control and Labor Organization in Iran, 1965-75", Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 25, no. 2, April 1989 (London), pp.198-207. 

(1988) "Labor and Democracy: The Case of Post-Revolutionary Iran", in H. Amirahmadi and M. Parvin (eds.) Post-Revolutionary Iran, Boulder: Westview Press, 1988, pp. 41-55.

(1983) "Iran: Workers' Control after the Revolution", MERIP Report, no. 113, 1983 (New York), pp. 19-24

Short Essays in Popular Media

(2021) “Regard d’Asef Bayat sur l’islamisme et la théologie de la liberation”, Areion24news, December 12, 2021. https://www.areion24.news/2021/12/12/regard-dasef-bayat-sur-lislamisme-et-la-theologie-de-la-liberation/2/ 

(2021) “Essential Readings on Uprisings, Popular Protests and Resistance”, Jadaliyya, March 2, 2021; https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/42437?fbclid=IwAR13u4j8u4_WHWqHWajdBBebJ_QhIYDJYxL_pilZ8_fB5NUZr2aFiUnGs#.YEex9BhKNDM.facebook 

(2021) “La Justice Sociale Reste L’aspiration La Plus Inassouvie”, Le1 Hebdo, No. 328, 6 January 2021.

(2020) “The uprisings opened a new chapter in the history of popular revolutions”, Reaction, 17 December 2020. https://reaction.life/ten-years-later-how-the-arab-spring-changed-the-world/