“Arab Gulf States: Beyond Oil and Islam.” Commissioned Lecture, Indian National Seminar: “Conflict in South and West Asia: Prospects for Peace,” Centre For West Asian Studies, Aligarh University, Aligarh, India, December 2010.

"Has America at Last Found God's Way? The United States, the 1952 Hajj and the Cold War in the Middle East."  Paper presented at the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 15, 2010.

“‘If You Want A Future Baby, Why Don’t You Get a Past?’ Men, Women, and Twenty-First Century Gulf Society.” Paper presented at the 2010 Exeter Gulf Studies Conference The 21st-Century Gulf: the Challenge of Identity.  Exeter, United Kingdom, July 2010.

"The Sons of Anatolia Return to the Scorching Sands: Turkey and the Arab Gulf States in the Twenty-First Century.” Paper presented at Izmir University, Izmir, Turkey, May 2010.
 
“Camels and Cadillacs: Down and Out on the Ninetieth Floor – New Perspectives on Politics and Society in the Gulf.” Paper presented to the American University in Beirut Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, Beirut, Lebanon, March 2010
 
“Airlift for Allah: The United States and the 1952 hajj.” America and the Middle East: An Interdisciplinary Conference. The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud Center for American Studies & Research, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, January 2010.
 
"Revolution or Secular Tajdid: Islam, Thomas Jefferson, and the Rise of American Liberty."  Paper presented to the American University in Beirut, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud Center for American Studies & Research, January 2009.  Click here to see the presentation. 

"Social Movement Theory, Court Records, and Early-Modern Sufism."  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, November 2007.

“Thomas Jefferson, Keith Ellison, and African Muslims in Atlantic History.”  Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, St. Michael, Barbados, October 2007.

نظام التعليم العالي في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية [The post-secondary educational system in the United States of America], (delivered in Arabic), Syrian Educational and Technical Training Exposition, Damascus Fairgrounds, June 29, 2003, under the joint sponsorship of the U.S. Cultural Center in Damascus and the Syrian Ministry of Education.

 تـأثيرالمسلمين على تاريخ أمريكا قبل القرن التاسع عشر [Muslims’ Influence on the History of America Before the Nineteenth Century], (delivered in Arabic), Damascus University, March 12, 2003, under the joint sponsorship of the U.S. Cultural Center in Damascus and Damascus University.