I am a writer, speaker, and educator in global digital media at Northwestern University, where I am an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies. I also hold an affiliation with Northwestern Qatar's Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South. Through my scholarship and public engagement, I take part in building justice-informed media practices. 

My research examines the creative strategies and tactics used by transnational youth as they navigate the changing power dynamics of contemporary globalization. I am currently working on my first book project, All Your Meme Are Belong To Us: Internet Cultures in the Global South, which explores creative practices in online civic engagement across geopolitical contexts and languages such as Mandarin, English, Arabic, Hebrew, and French. 

I have also published academic articles and book chapters on online culture mixing, Arab and Chinese media politics, and critical transnational pedagogy in venues such as: Social Media + Society; Asian Communication Research; Media, Culture & Society; International Journal of Communication, and Information, Communication and Society. And, I am a co-editor for the forthcoming anthology, The Intersectional Internet II: Power, Politics and Resistance Online (Peter Lang, Fall 2023).

I am an award winning teacher. I use critical pedagogies to guide students to think critically about the power dynamics involved in media issues. My course, Studying Internet Culture, which I designed and taught in Fall 2020 and Spring 2021, earned me a teaching award at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. In the class, students critically examined different formats of popular internet culture (including memes, TikTok videos, influencer cultures, hashtags, and more). 

Outside of the academy, I am an accomplished global public educator. I am on the editorial board of Pop Junctions: Reflections on Entertainment, Pop Culture, Activism, Media Literacy, Fandom, and More. I have led workshops on antiracist facilitation and social justice for organizations such as NowThis, Gimlet Media, The Onion, and The Writers Guild of America. I have given talks at colleges, universities, libraries, conferences, and public forums across the U.S., Palestine, Scotland, Egypt, China, Israel, Qatar, France, and Canada. My public writing on popular culture and politics has appeared in Arabic, Hebrew, and Anglophone publications. 

Prior to joining the faculty at Northwestern, I was an Assistant Professor of Global Civic Media in the Comparative Media Studies|Writing program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

My educational background includes a dual-major BA (2009) and MA (2015) in Asia Studies and Communication and Journalism from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an MA (2019) and PhD (2021) in Communication from the University of Southern California's Annenberg School.

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