I am a sociocultural anthropologist and a gender studies scholar. I research and write about labor mobility, political violence and mobilization, and racial capitalism in the Middle East and Sudan.
I have a PhD in anthropology from Columbia University, and I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the New School’s Zolberg for Migration and Mobility in NYC.
When I am not working, I like to explore new music, preferably in Beirut.
“The gun has become a type of thinking: A conversation about war with the Sudanese writer Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin”, Public Seminar, June 2024
“Life is a Gamble: Labors of Mobility, Risk and Return Between Sudan and Lebanon”, Cultural Anthropology, February 2023
“A Revolution in Pain: A conversation with members of Sudan’s resistance committees and Magdi elGizouli”, Africa is a Country, September 2023
“Good Guys, Mad City”, Mashriq&Mahjar Journal, August 2020
“At the edges of command: A conversation with Neferti X.M.Tadiar”, Rusted Radishes Literary and Art Journal, Issue: Labor & Idleness, February 2024
“Sudanese Migrants’ Labor in Times of Economic Crisis and Revolution”, merip, August 2022