I am an Assistant Professor of Global Modern and Contemporary Architecture at Boston University’s History of Art & Architecture Department.

My research focuses on the connections between refugees, the built environment, and the modern history of the Middle East. My writings have appeared in CSSAME and elsewhere. Currently, I am revising a book manuscript on the history of refuge in Jordan, spanning from late Ottoman times to the ongoing war in Syria. My work has been supported by the Mellon/ACLS, the IJURR Foundation, and the Critical Refugee Studies Collective, among others.

I earned my PhD in Architectural History from UC Berkeley in 2022. Before joining Boston University, I was the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of History at UC Davis. Before moving to the US, I held a full-time lecturer position at the German Jordanian University (2012-2016).

I also have experience in architecture and urban practice. In 2012, I co-founded Arini, a socially engaged architecture practice, and herskhazeen.com, an online magazine for urbanism, architecture, and design in the Arab region. With Arini, I published a co-edited book, Mapping Jabal Al Nathif (2014). I worked on small-scale, socially engaged architecture projects in Palestinian and Syrian refugee camps, in addition to curatorial projects.

I have also worked on various urban development and heritage documentation projects in Yemen, Libya, Abu Dhabi, Jordan, and Palestine.

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