When attribution disappears and proximity becomes authority, who owns the work? A structural critique of cross-cultural creative collaboration in ceramics and beyond — tracing the V&A's imperial archive to contemporary exchange, and asking what ethical practice would require instead.

Essential Resources for Culture Bearers and Truth-Tellers. This comprehensive manual, published by PEN America in January 2021, serves as an essential complement to the work I've been documenting, offering practical frameworks for artists, writers, and cultural practitioners who find themselves targeted for their creative expression. The ARC Safety Guide emerges from a stark reality: in 2019 alone, over 700 incidents of artistic freedom violations were documented across at le

A midnight feed. Gaza, theory, Italian disco, Lebanese news, a therapy ad — arriving at identical weight. An investigation into fragmentation, attention, and what the algorithm does to the experience of living inside multiple crises simultaneously.

Cultural Production, Temporal Displacement, and the Ethics of Documentation in Post-Crisis Societies Nostalgia, extraction, and care work in Lebanon

A geography of displacement traced through objects carried and abandoned across Beirut, Dubai, New York, Tucson, and Maine. On what accumulation reveals about identity, loss, and the material logic of becoming.

The Lebanese cultural landscape vibrates and freezes simultaneously. An analysis of the structural conditions — political, economic, psychological — that keep an aesthetic conversation perpetually suspended, and the personal pathways Ibrahim Khazzaka found toward a living culture.

An investigation into how race shapes desire, and how queer intimacy becomes a site of structural power. Drawing on community voices from Tucson to ask what decolonization looks and feels like at the scale of the body.

As neurodivergence enters mainstream cultural conversation, a structural question goes unasked: who gets to be diagnosed, accommodated, and believed? An inquiry into identity, care, and the political economy of difference in the United States.