Publications
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Exploring Prison Through Memory.” Anthropology & Humanism, April 2025.
““My Government Did This:” Exploring the Erasure of the Beirut Port wall.” Regards, December 2022.
Book Reviews
Review of A War of Colors by Nadine A. Sinno. American Ethnologist, May 2025.
"The Heart of the Death Machine: Prisons and Power in Assad’s Syria." Al Jumhuriya Net, September 2024.
Creative & Other
Interview with Mark LeVine on his book Heavy Metal Islam. CaMP Anthropology website, May 2024.
Vitality in Work: Stories from Ras Beirut. PROCOL Working Paper Series Vol. 3, 2022.
“On Living with Other Beings” Rusted Radishes, August 2022.
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“Prison Lingo in Lebanon: Languages of Solidarity and Survival.” Panel: Language, Play, and Resistance to Oppression. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Louisiana, US (November 2025).
“Beyond Prison Walls: Unseen Images and Stories from Lebanon’s Former Prisoners.” Panel: Middle East Section Flash Session #1. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Louisiana, US (November 2025).
“Visibilizing the Invisible: Image-making and Carcerality in Lebanon.” American University of Beirut Sociology-Anthropology and Media Studies “Violence and Visuality” Conference. Beirut, Lebanon (October 2025).
“Doing Collaborative Artistic Ethnography with Formerly Incarcerated Women in Lebanon.” Panel: Politics of Multimodal Anthropology Research. International Society of Ethnology and Folklore Conference. Aberdeen, Scotland (June 2025).
“Possibilities of Life Amidst Captivity: Care and Survival in Lebanon’s Prisons.” The Arab Council for Social Sciences Seventh Conference, Beirut, Lebanon (May 2025).
“Prison Research in Lebanon: Ethnography as a Practice of Reconciling with Uncertainty.” Panel: A New Ethnography of Encounters: Creating Interdisciplinary Networks of Praxis and Learning. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Florida, US (November 2024).
“Undoing Carcerality Through Relationship: Stories from a Women’s Prison in Beirut.” Panel: Doing and Undoing with Anthropology. European Association of Social Anthropologists Biennial Conference. Barcelona, Spain (July 2024).
“Graffiti in Beirut: Imagining Alternative Realities.” Panel: (Re)claiming Spaces of Hope and Inspiration: Protest and Revolutionary Aesthetics. European Association of Social Anthropologists Biennial Conference. Belfast, UK (July 2022).
“Imagination, Affect, and Agency: Exploring Beirut’s Post-August 4 Graffiti.” Panel: Revolt in a Time of Collapse: Revolution, Dignity, and Livelihood in Lebanon and the Contemporary Arab World. Drafting and Enacting Revolution in the Arab Mediterranean Conference. Beirut, Lebanon (June 2022).