In graduate school, as I was preparing to head to the archives, I felt like histories of Arabia and the Gulf were missing stories of everyday life, as well as the voices of people who could slip between official frameworks.
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The Reordering of Power Relations and the Syrian Political Economy
The following was published in Partnership with the LSE’s Conflict Research Programme. This paper was presented at the Political Economy and Governance in Syria conference organise..
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From Fauda to the Messiah: The “Us-Them" Narrative – A Netflix Disorder
After reading about the demonization of Palestinians in the Messiah series online, Facebook ads for the Fauda series began popping up on my feed.
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All Prisoners Are Political Prisoners: Rethinking the Campaign to #FreeThemAll Beyond Borders and Beyond COVID-19
In late February, amid the catastrophic spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the Islamic Republic of Iran, relatives of several of Iran’s prisoners of conscience wrote an open letter to Chief Justice Ebrahim Raisi demanding the imm..
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Expert Q&A: Trump’s Executive Order on Campus Anti-Semitism
This Q&A was originally published by the Institute for Middle Eastern Understanding on 18 December 2019 in response to recent developments concerning President Trump’s Executive Order on Combatting..
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CAF Letter Criticizing President Trump’s Executive Order on Combating Anti-Semitism
The following letter was issued by the Middle East Studies Association on 12 December 2019 in respo..
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