Scholarship

For more information about my scholarly work, see my CV here.

PUBLICATIONS:

PERFORMANCE REVIEWS

“Performance Review: Bethlehem Site-Specific Theater Festival.” Arab Stages, volume 14 (November 2023). https://www.thesegalcenter.org/arab-stages/performance-review%3A-bethlehem-site-specific-theater-festival

ARTICLES IN BOOKS

“Palestinian Theatre in the West Bank: An Interview with Iman Aoun.” Essay. In Refugees, migration and erased memories in the aftermath of Yugoslav wars, 2025

“Palestinian Women’s Innovations and Collaborations in ‘Jasadikhom,’ ‘Who_You_R,’ ‘Asli Barri,’ and ‘Tuffah’’.” Essay. In Women’s Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance, Volume I: Performers 1, Vol. 1. UK: Bloomsbury, 2025.

“Those Who Tell Don’t Die (“Elli byi7ki mish biymoot”): Reimagining Memory in Adam Ashraf Elsayigh’s Drowning in Cairo and Memorial” Essay. In Decolonizing Dramaturgy in a Global Context UK: Bloomsbury, 2025.

“Agency through Adaptation: MENA Women in Shakespeare’s Sisters, Jogging, and Noura” Essay. In Milestones in Staging Contemporary Genders and Sexualities NY, NY: Routledge, 2024.

ARTICLES

“Exploring Affinity Spaces: Insights from the 2023 MENATMA Convening.” Theatre Topics, volume 35 (October 2024). [co-authored with Nabra Nelson]

“Reactivating Medea in Hanane Hajj Ali’s Jogging.” TDR: The Drama Review 69, no. 1 (September 2024). https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-drama-review/all-issues.

“Oslo vs. The Accords: Examining the Global Consequences of Fractional Truths on Stage.” Arab Stages 11 (2019).

 “Brecht in 2017: Alienation vs. Immersion.” Theatre/Practice: The Online Journal of the Practice/production Symposium of the Mid-America Theatre Conference 8 (2019).

 BOOK REVIEWS

“The Selected Works of Yussef El Guindi.” Eumenica, (2020).

“Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s English History Plays.” Theatre History Studies, (2019).

Recent Conference Presentations:

• International Federation for Theatre Research, Manila, Philippines, July 2024
  Title: “Palestinian Sperm Smuggling A Force for Futurity: Looking Beyond Amira”

• “Alt-Pop Musical Theatre Through Decades and Across Countries” presented in the “Hot Topics in Musical Theatre Dramaturgy” panel on Zoom at LMDA Convention Presentations, 2024

• American Society for Theatre Research, Providence, Rhode Island November 2023
  Title: “The Joy Effect: Clowning Under Occupation”

• Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA, January 2023
  Title: “A Diasporic Love Letter: Transnationalism in Mo”

• American Society for Theatre Research, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 2022
  Title: “Palestinian Sperm Smuggling: A Force for Futurity Amidst the Continued Catastrophe of Occupation”

• American Society for Theatre Research, San Diego, CA, October 2021
  Title: “Faith and Fire: The Ritual Performance of the Miracle of the Holy Fire”

• American Association of Community Theatre, Fall 2021
  Title": “Reimagining the Playing Space: The Practical Application of Viewpoints in the Rehearsal Room”

• Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Summer 2021
  “Workshopping New Worlds in a Post-Covid Community”

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