Description: I am an ethnographer, translator, and PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at New York University.
My writing has been published in Ethnography , Humanity , Contexts , and the edited volume Refugees as City-Makers . My research has received fellowship funding from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Max Weber Stiftung, and the NYU Gallatin Urban Democracy Lab.
Teaching and mentoring are central elements of my academic identity. I currently teach multiple courses at the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Studies, where I also designed the research tutorial for a community-based learning fellowship that supports urban social justice organizations in New York City. In 2022, I received the NYU Dean’s Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award in the Social Sciences.
I received my MA in Sociology from NYU (2018), my BS from Georgetown University in International Politics and Arab Studies (2011), and completed advanced Arabic language training at the American University in Cairo’s Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA).