Curriculum Vitae
Education
09/2015-07/2020
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
09/2013-09/2015
Master's Student, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
09/2010-09/2013
Joint-Honours, Bachelor or Arts (First Class Honours), Development Studies and Geography, SOAS University of London and King's College London, UK
Professional Activities
2018-2019
Freelance Producer, Al-Jazeera English, Palestine/Israel
2018
Freelance Editor and Translator
Spring 2018
Research Assistant (Prof. Mark Goodale)
08/2015-09/2018
Resource Development Manager, Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality, Be'er Sheva, Israel and Geneva, Switzerland
05/2015
Curator, '#culture: Talking about Ethnography', Geneva, Switzerland
08/2012
Researcher at Lakiya Negev Weaving, Lakiya, Israel
Teaching
2019-2020
Teaching Assistant, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
09-12/2016
Teaching Assistant in Interdisciplinary Programmes
Courses: Sociology of International Affairs and Cooperation; Global Population and Reproductive Politics in the 20th Century, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
02-06/2016
Teaching Assistant, Anthropology and Sociology
Courses: Social and Cultural Theory II; Palestine-Israel: Competing Narratives, Contentious Politics, and Securitized Peace, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
2007-2012
Teaching Assistant, Native Awareness Wilderness School, UK
Presentations at Conferences and Workshops
2021
- Security, Surveillance and Vaccination in Palestine/Israel during the Pandemic, (Online) Workshop Series "Anthropologies and Securities", Workshop 2 "State (and) Power in the Pandemic, 25 February
- Discussant at Online Lecture Series: The Future of Criminal Justice Today: Policing, Governance, and Digital Technologies. Speaker: Sarah Brayne (University of Texas at Austin): "Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing", 24 February
- Workshop: In the Moment and After the Fact: Ethnographic Reflections on Political Engagement, 20-21 February
2020
Tracing Bedouin Land Claims in the Naqab, EASA 2020, Lisbon, Portugal, July
2019
- Gaze at Gaza: Narrating Colonial State Power and Constructing the Boundaries to Vision, Serbest Kurdish Studies Conference: Comparative Perspectives (South Africa and Palestine), Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA, 7-8 June
- Security as Panacea: Denying Citizenship to Citizens, Law and Security: Technologies, Sites and Practices (Panel 1), Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, 27 May - 2 June
- Infrastructures of Ruination and Resistance: Jurisdiction for State Provision, Infrastructures of Injustice, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA, 28-29 April
- Defining the Act of Ruination: Performing Human Rights and Protecting the State, Human Rights Work and Transnational Legal Activism: Limits and Potential, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, 8-9 February
2018
Infrastructures of Ruination and Resistance: Jurisdiction for State Provision, Infrastructures of Injustice, University of Cambridge, UK, 26-27 October
2016
- Forming and Transforming the "Bedouin Threat" in the Naqab-Negev, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, 30 November
- Empty Desert, Screening and Discussion, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, 23 June
- Symbolic Struggle or Real Resistance: Online Activism in Palestine/Israel, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, 11 May
2015
Geneva Peace Week Event, Discussant at Film Screening and Debate, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, 25 March
Scholarships, Grants and Awards
01-12/2018
Gallatin Fellowship
09/2016-06/2017
Yves Mirabaud Scholarship
09/2015-06/2016
Yves Mirabaud Scholarship
09/2014-06/2015
Graduate Institute Scholarship
08/2014
Camera as a Research Tool, Swiss Ethnographic Society Grant
09/2013-06/2014
Graduate Institute Scholarship
Summer 2012
Undergraduate Research Award and Grant
University Responsibilities
2016
Co-Founder of Scholarships for Refugees, Migration Initiative, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
2014-2015
Co-President, Food Coop, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
2011-2013
Co-President, Food Coop, SOAS University of London, UK
Journalistic Work
Freelance work (including production, translation and editing) for Al-Jazeera, +972 Magazine, Open Democracy, Mondoweiss, Palestine Square
Languages
English (vernacular)
Hebrew (vernacular)
French (intermediate)
Arabic (beginner)
Spanish (beginner)