Selected Recent Publications
“A National Vocation: Engineering Nature and State in Lebanon’s Merchant Republic.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 40, no. 1 (May 2021). Winner of the 2023 Martha Trescott Prize, Society for the History of Technology.
“Ahmad Douma and Alaa Abd al-Fatah: Four Squares, Four Sovereignties.” In Behind the Sun: Prison Writing and Abolition in an Egyptian Century, ed. Hannah Elsisi (London: Verso) [forthcoming].
With Gabi Kirk, “Environmental Crisis as Event and Structure.” Introduction to special Essays section, “Critical Environmental Perspectives in Middle East Studies.” Arab Studies Journal 22, no. 2 (2022).
“Crisis and Change: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Climate in the Middle East.” Introduction to edited roundtable. Jadaliyya, 26 April 2021.
Review of Banking on the State: The Financial Foundations of Lebanon, by Hicham Safieddine. Arab Studies Quarterly 43, no. 2 (Spring 2021).
“The Past and Present of Electricity in Lebanon.” Jadaliyya, 2 May 2019.
Selected Recent Presentations
2023 “Development and Environmental Justice in Twentieth-Century Lebanon,” Invited talk, North Carolina State University, Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, 19 April.
2023 “Environmental Crime and the Production of Natural Resources: The Litani River in Lebanon.” Ecologies of Fragile Landscapes Workshop, London School of Economics. London, 9 June.
2023 “Pollution, Ecology, and Futurity: Lebanon’s Past and the Global Future.” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting. Montréal, QC, November 2–5.
2023 “Policing the Litani: Refugees and ‘Environmental Crime’ in Lebanon’s Litani River Basin.” American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference. Boston, MA, March 22–26.
2023 “Vernacular Development and Environmental Justice in the Postcolonial Bekaa Valley.” American Historical Association Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA, January 5–8.
2022 “State of Neglect: Environmental Justice and State-Building in Lebanon.” Opening plenary, History of Science Society Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL, November 17–20.
2022 “Global Souths/Native Norths,” Invited panelist, University of Chicago, Fossil Capitalism in the Global South Research Project, 18 November.
2022 “Technopolitics and Environmental Crisis: Rule of Experts Twenty Years On.” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting. Denver, CO, 1–4 December.
