I am a sociologist of forced migration and masculinities in the contemporary Arab world. I finished my PhD in the Department of Sociology at NYU in 2025, and in July I will be joining the New School for Social Research as a postdoctoral fellow in the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility.

My research follows the everyday lives of a group of young Syrian men from the outskirts of Damascus as they work to build and sustain lives in Lebanon’s central Beqaa valley. I use ethnographic methods and life-history interviews to explore how displacement and exile reconfigure their gendered definitions of self and morality, experiences of agency, and orientations towards the future. My book project, No Country for Young Men: Masculinity and Migrant Futures in Lebanon, is currently under advance contract with the University of Chicago Press.

My writing has been published in Ethnography, Humanity, Contexts, and the bilingual edited volume Refugees as City-Makers, and my articles have won awards from the ASA’s Global and Transnational Sociology (GATS), International Migration (IM), and Human Rights sections as well as the Association for the Anthropology of Policy. My dissertation research also received fellowship support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Max Weber Stiftung, and the NYU Gallatin Urban Democracy Lab.

Teaching and mentoring are central elements of my academic identity. I have taught many courses on migration, gender and sexuality, and ethnography in both the NYU Sociology Department and the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Studies, where I also designed the research tutorial for a community-based learning fellowship that supports urban social justice organizations in New York City. In 2022, I received the NYU GSAS Dean’s Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award in the Social Sciences.

I received my MA in Sociology from NYU (2018), my BS from Georgetown University in International Politics and Arab Studies (2011), and I completed advanced Arabic language training at the American University in Cairo’s Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA).

My non-academic interests include cats, biking, and foreign fiction.