Presentations

09/19-24/2012, "The Place of Difference in the Digital Humanities" at the International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA) | Albuquerque, NM

06/28-7/1/2012, "Science of the Oppressed as Artivism" at the 2012 Allied Media Conference | Detroit, MI

06/15/2012, “Cosmopolitanism, New Media and Protests” at the London School of Economics 2012 PhD Media Symposium | London, UK

05/22/2012, Guest lecturer in Liz Losh’s class on digital journalism at the University of California, San Diego | San Diego, CA

05/17/2012, Invited back to present to students of digital media at the University of California, Santa Cruz | Santa Cruz, CA

04/11/2012, Roundtable on "The Insight of Insider/Outsider Approaches to Scholarship” at USC Annenberg Graduate Fellowship Research and Creative Project Symposium at the University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA

03/16/2012, "The Arab Uprising, Social Movements, The Emergence of Islamic Groups, Security, and Regional/International Dynamics" at Munk School of Global Affairs at University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada

03/12/2012, "Arab Spring: Convening the ICTD research community" organized by the Technology and Social Change Group, University of Washington and Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society" | Atlanta, Georgia

02/13/2012, "By the Demand of the People: Archiving digitally born information in Arabic" at UC Santa Cruz Department of Film and Digital Media | Santa Cruz, CA

12/01/2011, "Social Media Practice: Revolution, Youth, and the Digital World" Roundtable discussion at Middle East Studies Association | Washington, DC

11/29/2011, "Applications of Social Media Proliferation: New Approaches towards 'Objective' Study" at U.S. Department of State Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance "Arms Control in the Information Age" conference | Washington, DC

11/10/2011, "#NoMilTrials Remixed" at Munk School of Global Affairs at University of Toronto "Arab Uprising, Understanding the Causes of Change" | Toronto, Canada

09/23/2011, "Turning Information in to Insight Panel" at Tech@State: Data Visualization conference | Washington, DC

09/22/2011, "Social Media Proliferation: Mapping and Analyzing Online Content" in lecture series on "Transformations of Human Identity in the 21st Century" | Ferrum, VA

09/15/2011, "New Perspectives on Islam and the Middle East" in Fellows Forum series at University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA

07/29-31/2011, Arab Techies 2011 Workshop | Cairo, Egypt

06/2011, "Al-Sha'ab Yureed" (The People Demand): Transmitting the Revolution" at Allied Media Conference | Detroit, Michigan

06/2011, "Democratizing Knowledge: A2K4D's Second Annual Conference" at American University in Cairo | Cairo, Egypt

05/19/2011, "The Role of Art and Humanities in Regime Change" at TEDx organized by Stanford's Peace Innovation | Palo Alto, CA

05/18/2011, "Visual Nesting: Facebook's Design for Building Community" at Facebook Headquarters | Palo Alto, CA

04/05/2011, "Media Methods: Youth, Revolution, and the Arab States" at Annenberg Fellowship Creative Symposium at USC | Los Angeles, CA

04/01/2011, "The Social Web Meets the Semantic Web" at Annenberg Innovation Lab's Inaugural Conference at USC | Los Angeles, CA

02/24/2011, "Blogs and Bullets: Social Media and the Struggle for Political Change" roundtable discussion by US Institute for Peace, George Washington University, and Stanford University | Palo Alto, CA

11/2010, "The Digital Revolution: Arab Media in Digital Form" at Middle East Studies Association conference | San Diego, CA

07/2010, "The Digital Form: Rethinking R-Shief" at World Council on Middle East Studies | Barcelona, Spain

05/2010, Arab Techies 2011 Women's Workshop| Beirut, Lebanon

03/2010, "On Cultural Expression" at Bay Area's Arab Women's Conference | San Francisco, CA

02/2010, "On Implementing the Digital Form: an Arabic-English Web-based Archive" at Yale University's Digital Humanities Conference | New Haven, CT

05/2008, Guest lecture to Warren Sack’s class on Social Information Spaces | Santa Cruz, CA

10/2006, "Defining & Negotiating Public Space in the City” at Urban Culture Conference | Washington, DC

08/2006, Led poetry writing workshop for Young Women’s Drumming Empowerment Project | Washington, DC

12/2005, “Disrupting Spaces" at American Studies Association Conference | Washington, DC

06/2004, “Is Everything Political?” at Radius of Arab-American Writers Inc. (RAWI) conference | New York, NY

02/2004, “Arab Voices of Protest” at National Conference of Organized Resistance | Washington, DC