During the past 10 years, I've held diverse roles within the Anti-Racism Movement (ARM), a local non-profit advocating for migrant domestic workers' rights in the country. Starting with community center management for a few years, I transitioned into collaboratively building essential operational systems for the organization, leading into into my current position as Knowledge Coordinator. In this role, I produce critically engaging research and craft thought-provoking political learning programs that are used with staff members and community activists within and outside the organization.

In addition to my day-to-day full-time work, I’ve been involved in grassroots community-building efforts with mainly working-class transgender individuals as a founding member of Queer Mutual Aid Lebanon since early 2020. My long-term desire is to produce an ethnographic account of working class transfeminine communities in Beirut within a framework that engages anthropology, leftist political economy, and Lacanian psychoanalysis. I hope this would take the form of a book that can then open up avenues for a more meaningful engagement with the material, and with our material realities, in different ways.

Highlighted below are a few projects I’m proud of having been part of, selected for your reading pleasure.