On Parenthood and Genocide, In These Times
A new mother and scholar of forced displacement writes about Israel’s mass murder of Palestinian children in Gaza.
Gaza as Ground Zero for Israel’s Border Technology, Arab Center Washington DC
How the AI industry in Israel fuels the occupation and fuels violent border policy in the rest of the world.
Access to legal reprieve for immigrant survivors of trafficking has long been difficult, but under the Trump administration, they faced an unprecedented risk of harm.
Climate Change & Migration, for Arab Center Washington, DC
The climate crisis is an amplifier of global disadvantage — most people displaced will remain in situations of chronic poverty and protracted conflict the Global South.
For Women, Migration is a Constant Battle, in Al Jazeera English
The gendered costs of anti-refugee policies like Title 42 need to be acknowledged and addressed.
in The New Humanitarian
Long after conflicts slip from global attention, the displaced continue to pay the price— a reflection on borders, racism and the promise of refuge in light of Ukranian exodus.
Racism & Blocked Refuge of the Displaced of the Middle East & North Africa, for Arab Center, Washington, DC
For the majority of the world’s displaced, to be forced to leave home is to contend with a global patchwork of unequal borders designed to exclude those who need resources and stability from countries that have it.
The Inhumane Futility of Border Policing,
in Al Jazeera English
Increased and more violent border policing does not work. It is time to abolish it.
It’s expensive, ineffective, and discriminatory.
We must divest from policies that treat immigrants as a threat in favor of policies that invest in them as people
Coverage of Refuge
Other Public Writing
Racism and the Blocked Refuge of the Displaced of the Middle East, 2022, Arab Center Washington DC
The Problem with Behavioral Incentives, in Works in Progress, 2018
Hope Canal, in Middle East Research and Information Project with Mona Orabi, 2015
Egypt Two Years Later in Literal Magazine, 2013
Advocacy & Media Coverage
Founder of the Boston University Citizenship Hub, which brings together student language learners and law students with immigrants studying for the citizenship exam and applying for citizenship.
Organized faculty action against the Student Ban, a Trump policy that would have prevented international students from studying in the U.S. Authored an Open Letter signed by 30,000 faculty, covered by The Cut, Bustle, the Michigan Daily, The American Bazaar
Organized 2017 March for Refugees in New Haven, Connecticut, in light of the Muslim Ban, covered by Yale Daily News and New Haven independent.
Coverage & contribution on human displacement in venues like NYTimes, New Yorker, Time Magazine, Teen Vogue (again) & TV 5 Monde