I am a scholar, educator, and filmmaker based in the Bay Area, California with over a decade of experience in the visual arts and research/teaching in Ethnic studies, Gender & Feminist studies, Arab American and Asian American Studies, Carceral studies, Disability studies, and Comparative settler colonialisms.

I am currently a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Gender & Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. I hold a Ph.D. in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Rutgers University - New Brunswick.

Fluent in five languages, including Arabic, French, and Malay, I am broadly interested in Asian American (including West Asian and Arab American), racialized queer/trans, and undocumented migrant histories, politics, and diasporas and how those communities respond to converging projects of securitization, policing, and surveillance.

My writings, talks, and research interests span South-West Asia & North Africa (SWANA) and Maritime/Pacific South-East Asia, with particular interest in the settler-colonial contexts of Algeria, Palestine, and Kanaky/New Caledonia.

​As an activist-scholar and immigrant with roots in social movements against migrant detention in New Jersey, New York, California, and France, I am deeply informed by decolonial and feminist-abolitionist methodologies that critically interrogate the liberal-carceral violences of borders, checkpoints, deportation, and immigration enforcement.

I am at work on my first book project on the increasing digitization of the U.S. surveillance-and-detention industrial complex and U.S. empire's expanding geographies of violence across Asia and the Pacific, and directing a documentary film on a Guantánamo survivor's quest for justice.