Publications

Academic:

Race in Transit: Tracing the Politics of Migration from Ottoman Syria through US Empire. (Stanford Press, 2025).

 ‘Race, Gender, and Migration’ (9 Apr. 2026), in ed. Amanda Capern Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Gender and Women’s History . Online edn, Oxford Academic, 2026.

“Time difference : pregnancy and deportability in early twentieth-century United States” in ed. Danielle Battisti and S. Deborah Kang Hidden Histories of Undocumented European Migration to the United States (U Illinois, 2025)

“Race and Ethnicity” in Routledge Global History of Feminism (Routledge 2022)

“A ‘Flying Carpet of Doom:’ Retracing Gender and Orientalism through the Transatlantic Journeys of a Syrian Migrant Woman” (Frontiers 2022)

“Racial Borderlines: Ameen Rihani, Mexico, and World War I” (Amerasia 2018)

Book Review, Neda Maghbouleh’s Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the everyday politics of race (Arab Studies Journal 2019)

Book Review, Karine Walther’s Sacred Interests: The United States and the Islamic World 1821-1921 (Reading Religion 2018)

Popular Press

Can Empathy with Ukraine Fuel Global Solidarity against Imperialism? (Washington Post 2022)

Interview in “Texas Bound: Syrian and Lebanese Immigrants in the Lone Star State,” Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies 2019

“It’s Politicians–Not Migrants–Who are Prolonging the Coronavirus Epidemic” (Washington Post 2021

“Zeinab’s Oddysey: Gender, Mobility, and the Mahjar” Ottoman History Podcast 2020

“A Waking Dream: Syrian Migrants’ Journeys to the Americas” Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies 2019

“Why Blackface Remains Popular on College Campuses” Washington Post 2019      

” Why Trump’s Fearmongering about Muslims at the Border Misses the Mark” Washington Post 2019                             

“With Eyes on Europe, we are Forgetting Those Still Crossing” Open Democracy  2016