Publications
Books, etc.
“Infiltrating Ecology: The Rise of Industrial Agriculture in Modern Lebanon, 1950–1960.” PhD diss., University of Leeds, forthcoming 2024.
Editor, Doomed by Hope: Essays on Arab Theatre. London: Pluto Press, 2012.
Editor, Innana Mahkumun bi-l-ʾAmal: Kitabat fi al-Masrah. Beirut: Dar al-Adab, 2012. Arabic edition of Doomed by Hope.
Editor-in-chief, project director, Marsah: Theatre Texts | marsah.org. Digital platform of international plays and commentary authored in and translated to Arabic. Beirut: Masrah Ensemble, 2019.
Arabic-to-English translator, When the Library Was Stolen: On the Private Archive of Abd al-Rahman Munif. Berlin: Fehras Publishing Practices, 2017.
Playwright, Mama Butterfly. In Rusted Radishes, 2013; Asymptote, 2015.
Journals
Issues of Portal 9: Stories and Critical Writing about the City, Arabic-English literary and academic journal. Print and digital. Beirut: Solidere, 2012–14.
Editor-at-Large, “Forest.” Two scholarly papers, five articles, photo essay, and five translations, 2014.
Managing Editor, “Fiction: Contemporary Arabic and Russian Pursuits.” Three stories, photo essay, and a novella, 2014.
———, “The Square.” Three scholarly papers, twelve articles, three visual essays, 2013.
———, “The Imagined.” Four scholarly papers, twelve articles, four visual essays, 2012.
Chapters and Articles
“A Gazelle Named Fluorine: On Industrial Agriculture and the University in 1950s Lebanon.” In Non-Western Approaches to the Environmental Humanities, edited by Gabriela Jarzębowska, Aleksandra Ross, and Krzysztof Skonieczny. Goettingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlag, forthcoming 2024.
“Book Review: Nomad’s Land by Andrea Duffy.” Peer reviewed, Jadaliyya, 2022.
“Theatertreffen 2017: Brief Impressions.” In Engilsh, Arabic, and German, goethe.de, 2017.
“The Youngsters Turning the Crisis in Lebanon into Living Theater.” NewsDeeply, 2016.
“Nurturing Theater for Refugees in Lebanon.” Warscapes, 2016.
“Book Review: Oh, Salaam! by Najwa Barakat.” Arablit, 2016.
“Book Review: Vanished by Ahmed Masoud.” Full Stop, 2015.
“Portal 9: A Belief in Bilingualism.” Interview, Arablit, 2013.
“New Texts Out Now: On Doomed by Hope.” Interview, Jadaliyya, 2013.
Introduction to Doomed by Hope: Essays on Arab Theatre. London and Beirut: Pluto Press and Dar al-Adab, 2012.
“Lebanon’s Debut in the World of Tomorrow.” Archival piece about the New York World’s Fair 1939. In Portal 9, “The Imagined.” Beirut: Solidere, 2012.
“Going to the Theatre in Beirut.” In Beirut: A Guide to the City, edited by Carole Corm. Beirut: Darya Press, 2012.
“Anger Management.” Long-form cultural reportage on theatre in a prison. In The Review of The National (UAE), 2009.
“This ‘Tool We Dream Through’: Theater in NYC and the Arab Middle East.” Discussant, New York Theatre Review, 2009.
“Global Consciousness and Cosmopolitanism in Appendice by Lina Saneh.” Peer-reviewed article, Ecumenica: Performance and Religion 1, no.2 (October 2008): 11–21.
“Book Review: Desiring Arabs by Joseph Massad.” Bidoun, 2008.
Selected Arabic-to-English Translations
“The Imam and the Giraffe” by Iman Mersal. The Derivative, 2021.
”Bone Insurrection” by Rabih Mroué. The Derivative, 2021.
“Animal Ceremonies for a Military Coup Triumph” by Asad Sary. Al-Madaniya, 2017.
“Manifestos for a New Arab Theatre” by Saadallah Wannous. In World Theories of Theatre, edited by Glenn Odom. Routledge, 2017.