 Over her lifetime she was the author of more than 30 books on Egyptian literature, including a two-volume work on modern Egyptian prose, and published a number of translations of literary works from Arabic into Russian.Among these are biographies of early Egyptian ruler Baibars, and the works of Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Naguib Mahfouz.British scholar and Arabic translator Roger Allen listed her as one of the scholars who worked to integrate "the heritages of Middle Eastern cultures into the environment of Western academe."