Personal Statement: With the completion of a book about world history, I am refocusing on modern Egyptian history. I hope to carry on with the long term project of comparing Egyptian and Italian history.

Representative Publications:
Beyond Eurocentrism: A New View of Modern World History (1996).

Islamic Roots of Capitalism: Egypt, 1760-1840 (1979).

"Medical Pluralism in Arab and Egyptian History," Social Science and Medicine (1979).

"Political Economy as a Paradigm for the Study of Islamic History," International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (1980).

"Studies of Anglo-American Political Economy: Democracy, Orientalism and the Left," in Theory, Politics and the Arab World, ed. Hisham Sharabi (1990).

Notes
Professor Gran edits a series for Syracuse University Press entitled "Beyond Dominant Paradigms in Middle East Studies." In 1990 Professor Gran was guest lecturer at the Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and was elected president of the research group on "Imperialism and National Liberation Movements" of the International Sociological Association.