Select Speaking Engagements
Writer talks, guest lectures, panels, and literary readings
2026 On Global Solidarity, ACTIFEST Festival, Amsterdam, Panelist
2026 HUNA—Writing Resistance in the Now, AWP Writers Conference, Baltimore, Panelist
2025 Who Survived?—On Guilt as a Private and Collective Emotion, Anthropology Bil3arabi, Workshop Leader
2025 Arab Time - Hybridizing Form, Language, & Temporality, AWP Writers Conference, Los Angeles, Panelist
2024 Egypt Unveiled: History, Human Rights, and Future Horizons, Arab Conference at Harvard (ACH), Harvard University, Speaker
2024 To Sing the Truth and Name the Liars: Bearing Witness Under Erasure, Forum on Revolution, University of Pennsylvania, Speaker
2024 Narratives of the Exiled, Global Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh, Speaker
2024 Memory, Erasure, and Authorship: SWANA Writing in Diaspora, Arab American Studies Association 2024 Conference in Dearborn, Panelist and Reader
2024 The Art of Memoir, City of Asylum, Pittsburgh, Panelist
2024 Beyond Borders: Political Persecution & International Struggles, Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, Speaker and Panelist
2024 Governor's School for Global and International Studies, University of Pittsburgh, Panelist
2024 Burn It All Down, A Roundtable Discussion by The Markaz Review, Speaker
2024 SWANA Poets & Writers for Palestine, AWP off-site reading, Kansas City, Reader
2024 Words for Palestine, the Arab American Museum, Virtual, Reader
2023 Poetic Justice, Jaded, Pittsburgh, Reader
2023 Honoring Black X Palestinian Liberation, White Whale Bookstore, Pittsburgh, Reader
2023 Protect the Protest, Amnesty International Annual General Meeting, Panelist and Reader
2023 The Mizna+Rawi Fest, Radius of Arab American Writers, Minneapolis, Panelist and Reader
2023 Behind the Dialogue: Confronting Egypt's Escalating Human Rights Crisis, Arab Organization for Human Rights in the UK, Speaker
2023 Ethno-theatre and Activism Workshop, University of Pittsburgh, Guest Speaker
2023 Minorities in the Middle East and North Africa Course, Carnegie Mellon University, Guest Speaker
2023 International Education Week, Upper St. Clair High School, Pittsburgh, Speaker
2022 Advocacy Summit, the Freedom Initiative, Keynote Speaker
