Photographer George Azar and a militia fighter in Zaitouna Bay, Beirut, 1982. Photo by Michael Nelson
I am a political anthropologist and a feminist writer, currently based at Brandeis University’s Crown Center for Middle East Studies. In my research, I examine why people migrate, and how migration mobilizes people under conditions of political violence and racial capitalism. I also work on sexual violence and war economies, primarily in Lebanon and Sudan.
Recent publications
International Journal of Middle East Studies, fall issue 2025
“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
Special issue: Bordering and the War on Migration, American Ethnologist Online, September 2025
“A Revolution in Pain: A conversation with members of Sudan’s resistance committees and Magdi elGizouli”, Africa is a Country, September 2023
“Sudanese Migrants’ Labor in Times of Economic Crisis and Revolution”, merip, August 2022