RESEARCH

Toponymy and Global Solidarity (ongoing)
Creative mapping project
A database, map, and historical archive of street and square names reflecting political solidarities and alliances across the Global South.

Anatomy of Revolution (ongoing)
Multimedia project
A multimedia website and interactive installation by interdisciplinary artist Lara Baladi, selected for IDFA Forum 2025. I contributed to the project as a Research Assistant throughout 2023.

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 intertextual 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Selected unpublished work (contact for access)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 + Anthropology

• Cemeteries and the Spatial Politics of Death in Contemporary Cairo
• “The Whole World Will Remember”: Narrative, Nuance, and the Politics of Remembrance in the 9/11 Museum
  
• Domestic Labour Visa Policies and their Social Impact: Comparing the UK and Kuwait
  
• Visuality of Power: Imagery of the Arab Leader from 1981-2011

Film + Literature

• Nizar Qabbani’s 1967 Letter to Gamal Abdel Nasser: Articulating Arabism in the Wake of the Naksa
  
• Ethnicity, Nationality and Power in Benyamin’s Goat Days
  
• Finding ‘Reality’: Memory, Subjectivity, and Human Nature in Calvino’s Invisible Cities
• Delineation and the Myth of Equality in La Haine
• Money, Marriage, and Machismo: Precepts of Masculinity in Al-Makhdu’un and Bas ya Bahar