research:
Anterior Futurisms: Haunted Hegemonies and the Ghostly Chants of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution — Jadaliyya, 2021
Data collection for: Ghosts of the Black Decade: How legacies of violence shaped Algeria’s Hirak protests — Journal of Peace, 2023
conference lectures:
Presenter at Middle East Studies Association under the Roundtable for ‘Not Just Fun and Games: Negotiating Power through Popular Culture in Egypt’, Fall 2025
Presenter at the 14th Annual Middle East & Islamic Consortium Student Conference at Simon Fraser University, Spring 2024
Presenter at Kent State Philosophy Graduate Student Conference, Spring 2024
Presenter & Organiser at Middle East Studies Association under the panel for ‘In/Visible Accumulations: Spatial Production and the Erosion of National(ist) Mythologies,’ Fall 2023
Presenter at Global Histories of Empires: Theories and Practices under the panel for ‘Cooperation and Resistance in the Intellectual Life of Empires,’ Fall 2023
Presenter at Middle East Studies Association under the panel for ‘Race & Racialisation in Egypt,’ Fall 2022
Presenter at MESAAS Graduate Student Conference at Columbia University, Spring 2022
published poems:
“missed translations" and "conversations with hussein fahmy in khali balak min zouzou" — Mizna Journal, Cinema: Spring 2024
"poetics of a pomegranate" — Foothill Poetry Journal
“عودة” — Mizna Journal, Myth & Memory: Summer 2023
"aswan ghazal" and "breaking bread" — Indiana Review, Winter 2022
“revolutionary recipe” — Frontier Poetry, January 2023
"cross-pollination is when i translate arabic into a kiss" — Copihue Poetry, December 2022
“cyclical city” — Palette Poetry, February 2022
two poems — VIBE Journal, MAPS folio, December 2021
“shatt iskindereya/ شط اسكندرية" — DEAR Journal, June 2021
"please list fluency of languages below" and "abdel-nasser births a mermaid" — VIBE Journal, 2021
“& i know that this kind of forgetting is passed down in our blood —” — Mizna Journal, 20 Years, 2019
readings:
Fragmentation & Catastrophe — Presented by Mizna Journal and the New School Creative Writing Department. November 2024
Materials of Solidarity with Suheir Hammad — Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. November 2024
Book Launch for Dear Inheritors by Kathy Engel, June 2024
Banat el Hara — Presented by the Arab Film & Media Institute as part of the Arab Women in the Arts Showcase. April 2023
Ghassan Kanafani Scholarship Anthology Launch Party — Presented by the Palestinian Youth Movement. May 2022