Publications

Peer-reviewed

Forthcoming book manuscript: Filling the Head: Listening to Rap in Arabic, Indiana University Press.

“A Place Called Return,” in Producing Palestine, edited by Helga Tawil-Souri and Dina Matar. Bloomsbury Academic.

“To Have Many Returns: Loss in the Presence of Others,” World Records Vo. 4 (2020).

“Towards a Dialectics of Discrepant Cosmopolitanisms,” Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 13(2): 170-189.

“Developing a Palestinian Resistance Economy through Agricultural Labor”, Journal of Palestine Studies 46 (2017): 7-26.

“Resisting ‘Resistance’: On Political Feeling in Arabic Rap Concerts” in Arab Subcultures: Transformations in Theory and Practice, edited by Tarik Sabry and Layal Ftouni, 87-112. London: I.B. Tauris, 2017.

“Call and Response, Radical Belonging, and Arabic Hip Hop in ‘the West’” in American Studies Encounters the Middle East, edited by Alex Lubin and Marwan Kraidy, 106-135. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016.

“From ‘Hip Hop Revolutionaries’ to Terrorist-Thugs’: Blackwashing between the Arab Spring and the War on Terror,” Lateral 5.1 (Spring 2016).

EDITORIAL WORK

“Towards Third Worlding,” Forum, edited by Rayya El Zein and Malav Kanuga, Lateral 12.2 (2023)

“Cultural Constructions of Race and Racism in the Middle East and North Africa / Southwest Asia and North Africa,” Forum, edited by Rayya El Zein, Lateral 10.1 (2021).

Special Issue on Arabic Hip Hop, Shahadat ArteEast Winter (2012).

Signs of the Times: The Popular Literature of Tahrir, Shahadat ArteEast Spring (2011)

Interviews/Op-ed

“Three Hypotheses for Open Workers,” Code for Science & Society Blog

Essential Readings: Media and the Arab Uprisings, with Hatim El-Hibri and Marwan Kraidy, Jadaliyya – Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative, February 22, 2019.

(with I. Ramos, G. Potter, & G. Varghese) “BDS and Palestinian Theatre Making: A Call for Debate,” Theatre Survey 59 (2018), 409-418.

“The Long View: Concrete Political Solidarity with Syria.” Vox, December 19, 2016.

“Confronting Institutional Racism: Steven Salaita on Academic Freedom, BDS, and the Colonial Logic of the Neoliberal University,” The Advocate, December 3, 2014.

“Haletna bel Romancy: Interview with Lebanese indie band Mashrou3 Leila,” Jadaliyya, August 2011.