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Biography, Education and Training

My work, most broadly, operates at the intersection of media anthropology, political theory, and narratology, where I chart practices of wartime knowledge-production and imaginations of violence. Since 2014, I’ve conducted an ethnographic study of journalists in the Middle East, which forms the basis of my dissertation, “Meaningful Violence: War Reportage in Iraq, Syria, and Beyond.” Here I consider how the language, labor, and technics of journalism structure societal fantasies and satisfy consumer desire, reproducing hegemonic understanding of what war is. I am an affiliate researcher in Anthropology, Sociology, and Media Studies at the American University of Beirut, co-editor of a special issue of boundary 2 on Norman O. Brown and, previously, a contributing editor at Kyoto Journal. My latest publication is “Violence, Magic, Certainty: A Journalistic Worlding,” in Worlding Asia, forthcoming from Duke University Press.