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Publications
State Futurism vs. Critical Futurism. In Myrna Ayad, editor, What's Between, Between? Gulf Futures: An Edited Volume of Essays, Dialogues, and Opinions. Silvana Editoriale, 2026.
Glitching Tradition: Arab Digital Art at the Crossroads of Innovation and Resistance. In Haytham Nawar, editor, The Archaeology of New Media Arts in the Arab World, Hatje Cantz, 2026.
Applying Data Feminism Principles to Assess Bias in English and Arabic NLP Research. FAccT '25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, ACM, 2025.
“When Data Bodies Become Targets: New Risks in a Networked World,” Tech Policy, November 4, 2024.
Digital Humanities and AI in the Arab World in the 21st Century, The Fourth Arab Social Science Report. Arab Council for the Social Sciences, 2024.
Arabic Glitch: Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives. Stanford University Press, 2023.
Reframing the ‘Arab Spring.’ In Angela Krewan and Alena Strohmaier, editors, Media and Spatial Knowledge in/of the MENA-region. Amsterdam University Press, 2021.
"Techies on the Ground: Revisiting Egypt 2011," Cyber Orient Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East and Islamic World Vol. 13, Iss.1, 2019, pp. 43-61.
“Ev-Ent-Anglement: Reflexively Extending Engagement By Way of Technology” (co-authored with Alex Juhasz and Brian Getnick) in Bodies of Information: Feminist Debates in Digital Humanities, Eds. Liz Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont, 2017.
“On Developing a Teaching Module on Arab Social Media,” (co-authored with Kimberly Katz) in Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier: The Integration of Production and Theory/History in Cinema and Media Studies Courses, (2016).
“From Archive to Analytics: Building Counter-Collections of Arabic Social Media,” Archival Dissonance: Contemporary Visual Culture and Knowledge Production. I.B. Tauris/Ibraaz, September 2015.
“The Virtual Body Politic: A Networked Political Mobilization of Information Patterns and Materiality,” Networking Knowledge: Journal of the Media, Communication, and Cultural Studies Association. Vol. 8. No. 2. (May 2015).
“A Digital Humanities Approach: Text, the Internet, and the Egyptian Uprising” in Middle East Critique. Taylor and Francis. Vol. 22, Iss. 3, 2013.
“The Materiality of Virtuality: Internet Reporting On Arab Revolutions,” Mediating the Arab Uprisings. Eds. Iskander and Haddad. Tadween Publishing, 2013.
“Studying Social Streams: Cultural Analytics in Arabic,” in Jadaliyya, 10/31/2012.
“Egypt’s Presidential Election and Twitter Talk,” in Jadaliyya, 05/26/2012.
“Collateral Damage: #Oslo Attacks and Proliferating Islamophobia,” Jadaliyya, 08/09/2011.
“Media-Making Madness: #Arab Revolutions from the Perspective of Egyptian-American” in The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins, 02/21/2011.
“Security or Uncertainty: Stabilizing R-Shief Twitter Analysis during the Jasmine & Egyptian Revolutions.” ThoughtMesh: Critical Code Journal, February 5, 2011.
“The R-Shief Initiative: Proof of Concept” in Parson’s Journal for Information Mapping (Vol. 2) (2009).