RESEARCH

Occupation and the Road Not Traveled in Susan Youssef’s Habibi Rasak Kharban (2022)
Research Paper, Inquiries Journal
This paper examines Susan Youssef’s 2011 film Habibi Rasak Kharban as an adaptation of the Arabic folk tale Layla and Majnun, focusing on the film’s representation of nature, mobility, stigma, notions of displacement and encounters with the ‘Other.’ Subsequently, I argue that Habibi's characters and story must be read within the context of a highly bureaucratic settler-colonial nation-state – and that Youssef’s film is a highly intertextual and inherently political adaptation that is first and foremost a criticism of the dehumanizing nature of occupation.

Egypt’s Migrants in the Gulf (2021)
Oral History Exhbition
Between June-August 2021, I curated and conducted 10 interviews with Egyptian migrants to GCC countries for the Canada-based organization Egypt Migrations. The final exhibit can be viewed on their website.



Selected unpublished work (contact for access)

Sociology

• Domestic Labour Visa Policies and their Social Impact: Comparing the UK and Kuwait
  
• Visuality of Power: Continiuity and Change in the Images of Arab Leaders
• Belonging Beyond Borders: Third Culture Kids, Friendship Formation, and Identity at University
  

Film + Literature

• Finding ‘Reality’: Memory, Subjectivity, and Human Nature in Calvino’s Invisible Cities
• Delineation and the Myth of Equality in La Haine
  
• Ethnicity, Nationality and Power in Benyamin’s Goat Days
• Money, Marriage, and Machismo: Precepts of Masculinity in Al-Makhdu’un and Bas ya Bahar