Papers and Lectures:
2023 “Reflections on Fieldwork.” American University of Beirut. May 25.
2023 Routledge Handbook on Women in the Middle East. Lebanese American University. Beirut 2023 May 23.
2023 “Categorical Colonization: Rethinking Thinking.” American University in Cairo.
2023 “Decolonizing the Subject: From Rational Actor to Relational Trauma.” American University in Cairo. May 12.
2023 The Case for Arab American Studies. UC Davis. April 19.
2023 “Etel Adnan: Journey to America.” American University of Beirut Symposium on Etel Adnan. Feb 23.
2023 Feb 22 “From Connectivity to Connective Trauma: Critical Pathways Engaging Arab Families and Selving.” American University of Beirut. Center for Arab and Middle East Studies.
https://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/cames/Pages/arab_intellectuals.aspx.
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/i6zyayqtzbo
2023 Feb 20 “Mapping the Production of Knowledge on Women and Gender in the Arab Region.” American University of Beirut. Center for Arab and Middle East Studies.
https://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/cames/Pages/events.aspx.
YouTube link taking to the video directly is here: https://youtu.be/zv7CjgvDv30
2023 “Mapping the Production of Knowledge on Women and Gender in the Arab Region Roundtable.’ Lebanese American University. Arab Institute for Women. Feb 20.
2023 “Conversation with May Mikdashi on Sextarianism.” Lebanese American University. Arab Institute for Women. Jan 23.
2022 “Whose Trauma? Reconceptualizing Trauma Among Refugees in Chronic War Zones of the
Middle East.” Relief Center Conference. March 16. Virtual. (with Rita Giacaman, Kate Ellis,
Patrick Marius Koga, Osama Tanous. Nadine Hosny).
2022 “Who Cares: Studying Women and Gender Studies in the Middle East and North Africa.” University of Illinois, Chicago. Keynote. April 5.
2022 “Collaboration: Decolonizing Knowledge Production Essay, In Honor of Nicholas Hopkins.” American University in Cairo. Virtual. April 1.
2022 “Refugee Trauma: Arab Perspectives.” Global Ties Sacramento. August. Virtual
2022 “Who is the Subject of Trauma?” War, Gender and Displacement: The Impact of Forced
Migration on Families in the Middle East and North Africa Conference. Amman, Jordan, Oct.
(with Kate Ellis, Nadine Hosny, Osama Tanous).
2021 “Refugee Mental Health: An Arab Perspective.” Arab Health Summit. ACCESS. Virtual Oct. (with Patrick Marius Koga, Nadine Hosny, Osama Tanous).
2021 “Leaders Who Listen: Following to Lead.” Tomorrow’s Leaders Gender Scholars Program, Commencement Lecture. Lebanese American U. Jun 18. Via Zoom.
2021 “Self, Relation, and Gender Rights: (Un)Bounding Rights and Personhood .” Presented at the ZiF conference on Framing Global Contestations of Women and Gender Rights. Bielefeld University.
Mar. 24. Via Zoom.
2021 “A Gender, Class, Generation, and Culture Framework for Refugee Mental Health.” Gender and
Politics in the Middle East and North Africa: A Decade of Uprisings Conference. University of
Gothenburg. May 6–7.
2021 “Arab Family Dynamics and Domestic Work.” Zayed U, UAE. Mar. 10. Via Zoom.
2021 “The Universe of Rights: Universality and Locality in Women’s Rights.” Syracuse U. Mar. 8. Via 13 Zoom.
2021 “Arab Family Dynamics: Care Work and Domestic Work.” The UAE Family and Domestic Work Conference. Zayed University, UAE. Via Zoom. Feb. 10.
2021 Roundtable: Middle East/North African/South Asia Student Leadership Retreat. UC Davis. Via Zoom. Feb. 6.
2021 “Women, Sexuality, and Gender Within MENASA.” Middle East/North Africa Student Association. UC Davis. Via Zoom. Feb. 6.
2021 “Contested and Contesting Conceptual Frameworks: Questioning the Universality of Human
Rights.” ZiF Research Group Global Contestations of Women’s and Gender Rights Conference.
Bielefeld University, Germany. Via Zoom. Jan. 14.
2020 “Cooking in the Cauldron: Middle East Studies 1966-2020.” George Mason University. Arab
Studies Institute. Nov. youtube.com/watch?v=uRdwN-p4Uv8&feature=youtu.be | facebook.com/Jadaliyya/videos/446795856303515/ | arabstudiesjournal.org/asj-online/cooking-in-
the-cauldron-middle-east-studies-1966-2020.
2020 “The Sustainability Research and Training Program.” At the Mobility in the Sustainable City, Dubai (UAE) Webinar. Giovanni Circelli. Organizer. June 17.
2020 “Reflections on ‘Selving.’” ENIS/MIDA Online Summer School (European Network for Islamic Studies/Mediating Islam in the Digital Age). June 25.
2019 “Gender Studies and Gender in Development: A Historical Review of MENA and the World.”
Workshop on the Status of Gender Studies in the Middle East and North African Region. Arab
Council for the Social Sciences. Amman. Oct.
2019 “Gendering Islamophobia.” Reporting Islam Workshop. Northwestern U. April.
2019 “Categorical Thinking.” Economic and Social Commission for West Asia. ESCWA. United Nations. Beirut. Jan.
2018 “Remembering Mona Khalaf.” Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World. Lebanese American U. Jan.